IMTS 2024 Conference: Achieving Digitalization through Data Diversity

Thursday September 12 3:15 PM CST
IMTS67 Room W193-A

About the presentation
Digitalization is a priority for 87% of senior business leaders, according to Gartner. In manufacturing, however, digitalization presents both challenges and opportunities. Challenges include understanding how to select the most efficient and effective 3D metrology technology for each process throughout a product's lifecycle and integrating the data to achieve meaningful insight and analysis. Meanwhile, opportunities include applying the data as actionable insight to drive smarter and faster decision-making, reduce waste and costs, and improve communication and collaboration across departments and with external partners and stakeholders.

Implementing a successful digitalization strategy involves using the right technology to accurately digitize, analyze, and connect parts and products as they move through the design, engineering, manufacturing, and production processes. But, for many industries, there's no one-size-fits-all metrology solution across a product's lifecycle. So, how can manufacturers achieve digitalization efficiently?

This critical strategy requires diversifying with high-tech 3D metrology technologies, including non-contact optical 3D scanners, coordinate measuring machines (CMMs), computed tomography (CT) scanners, and other inspection devices, including microscopy systems, to feed data into a compatible software ecosystem. This session will focus on helping the IMTS audience understand how to achieve digitalization for continuous process improvement across the product lifecycle by applying a connected and efficient approach to data acquisition and analysis and unlocking advantages driven by digital twin methodology in downstream processes. IMTS audience members will understand how to optimize digitalization throughout all manufacturing stages by diversifying metrology technologies to leverage 3D measurement and inspection data in intelligent 3D metrology software.

Meet your presenters
Ian Scribner is a product sales manager at ZEISS Industrial Quality Solutions (IQS). Since joining ZEISS IQS in 2016, he has helped diverse manufacturers, including automotive industry giants and innovative aerospace companies, solve critical challenges with advanced 3D metrology solutions. With nearly 25 years of industry experience, he has seen the growing impact of digitalization and understands how to implement 3D metrology solutions that drive digital transformation while supporting a faster time to market.

Scott Lowen is the medical industry solutions leader and software product manager for ZEISS Industrial Quality Solutions (IQS) in the United States. With more than 25 years of industry experience, Scott has deep expertise across diverse manufacturing disciplines, including fabrication, stamping and machining processes, casting, turbine blades, and gears. Since joining ZEISS IQS in 2006, he has helped hundreds of manufacturers resolve challenges and advance their capabilities by launching innovative software solutions to the North American market.