Last month, in the occasion of the sixth edition of the Factory of the Future Awards ceremony in Zaventem (Brussels), Audi Brussels, Kautex Textron Benelux, Total Specialty Oils Ertvelde and Vandemoortele Izegem received the title of Factory of the Future from Belgian’s Federal Minister of Work, Economy and Consumers. “These production companies have all proved […]

The 3rd ADMA Learning Network session started 10h00 sharp at the Eurecat Cerdanyola premises, where we welcomed 11 attendees from 6 different manufacturing SMEs. Paul Peeters kicked off with the introduction to the ADMA initiative, explaining how manufacturing SMEs not only should work faster, but also smarter to proceed on a successful journey towards Factories […]

A recent study by KU Leuven (Belgium), one of the leading European universities, revealed that factory workers feel too little involvement in the introduction of new technologies and digitisation at their workplace. As a result, elder workers in particular tend to be worried about how their job will change, leading to ’technostress’. “This mainly concerns […]

This is the last in a series of seven articles that the ADMA initiative has produced in order to present the self-assessed current maturities of manufacturing managers in relation to the seven dimensions that European enterprises can advance on in order to improve their manufacturing performances. The seven dimensions are: Advanced manufacturing technologies Digital factory […]

After having trained more than 50 advisors from different ADMA partner organisations last year, we’re very happy to announce that the pipeline of European manufacturing SME’s interested in our services is filling up quite rapidly.  Throughout Europe, over 210 manufacturing professionals have completed the ADMA scan. In the meantime 43 scan feedback sessions have been […]

Manufacturing SME’s throughout Europe are increasingly using customer expectations as the key driver and starting point for all new developments and processes.  This is good news. Robust, high-quality product, manufacturing and service creation processes are increasingly the results of a cross-functional and cross-departmental design approaches.  Significant challenges faced by companies nowadays are how to make […]

Topic: Human-Centred OrganisationLocation: Belgium Getting people on board On November 27th and November 28th, Agoria facilitated 2 ADMA Learning Network Events in Belgium, with 2 hosting manufacturing SME’s that have won the Belgian Factory of the Future Award. A limited number of participants allowed for a lot of interaction and discussions throughout the days. The […]

Asking more than 130 European SME-leaders about their biggest manufacturing challenges, their answers were: a mindset change to increase the employees’ willingness to change towards a more automated, digital way of working; a need to move faster and smarter from new manufacturing ideas & concepts to realisation & value capturing; the need for a clear […]

In this interview, Henk Vincke tells us a bit more about the process of building an ADMA implementation plan for the HUMAN CENTERED ORGANISATION transformation. Stage 1. Vision, challenges and objectives • How did you arrive at a Factory of the Future vision for this transformation?Within the BMT Group we got the mandate to play […]