Published on July 9, 2026
Industrial decision-makers: how to balance performance, costs, and agility?
60% of large manufacturers use industrial cloud platforms, 65% increase their cloud usage after transformation, 47% see cloud as the main accelerator of AI access, and 72% factor in data sovereignty: these figures from NTT DATA's survey of more than 1,000 industrial companies frame this Tech for Industry Show workshop, hosted by Estelle Béranger (30 years supporting industrial mid-caps) and an SAP consultant specialized in production planning and quality.
The session covers: SAP public cloud ERP and its continuous updates — with record deployments (an Australian manufacturer in under 100 days) and the Califorme case, a €20M French SME "with everything of a big player," among 150+ industrial customers; a deep dive into SAP Digital Manufacturing, the "conductor of the 4.0 shop floor": execution (manufacturing orders, shop floor tracking, quality) and insights (OEE, downtime, scrap rates in real time), customizable operator dashboards, IoT data collection, full traceability and predictive maintenance; and AI in action — assisted visual inspection highlighting anomaly zones to guide operators, 20+ business agents developed by NTT DATA ("Supercharge ERP"), and a SAP Joule demo recommending the right technical product in an order-to-cash process. Closing conviction: "humans decide, AI analyzes, agents execute."
A hands-on workshop for manufacturing, production, quality and IT leaders — mid-caps and SMEs included.