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Industrial Digital Transformation

You're reading from Industrial Digital Transformation

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Published in Nov 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800207677

Pages 426 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Authors (4):

Shyam Varan Nath

Ann Dunkin

Mahesh Chowdhary

Nital Patel

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: The "Why" of Digital Transformation

2. Chapter 1: Introducing Digital Transformation

3. Chapter 2: Transforming the Culture in an Organization

4. Chapter 3: Emerging Technologies to Accelerate Digital Transformation

5. Chapter 4: Business Drivers for Industrial Digital Transformation

6. Section 2: The "How" of Digital Transformation

7. Chapter 5: Transforming One Industry at a Time

8. Chapter 6: Transforming the Public Sector

9. Chapter 7: The Transformation Ecosystem

10. Chapter 8: Artificial Intelligence in Digital Transformation

11. Chapter 9: Pitfalls to Avoid in the Digital Transformation Journey

12. Chapter 10: Measuring the Value of Transformation

13. Chapter 11: The Blueprint for Success

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Productivity and efficiency gains

The ROI, during an industrial digital transformation, can be in the form of business productivity and process efficiency gains, in addition to new digital revenue. Let's take the example of airline baggage handling.

The airline industry

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Delta Air Lines carried about 180 million passengers annually along with about 120 million checked airline bags. In 2016, Delta decided to invest $50 million to modernize its baggage handling solution and use Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) enabled baggage tags (see https://news.delta.com/iata-follows-deltas-lead-rfid-bag-tag-mandate). This would improve the efficiency in the system, reducing any adverse impact of mishandling baggage. The intended outcomes of this RFID initiative are as follows:

Reduced instances of bags left behind, misrouting at a connecting airport, or delayed arrival at the destination
Reduced instances of theft of bags or pilferage...

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Authors (4)

Shyam Varan Nath

Specialist Leader - AI & Analytics, Deloitte

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Ann Dunkin

Ann Dunkin, P.E. is a Chief Technology Officer at Dell Technologies. She has over a decade of experience as a Chief Information Officer, including as the CIO of the US EPA in the Obama Administration. She has led digital transformations in large organizations and has written and spoken extensively on the topics of technology modernization, organizational transformation and digital services. She serves on a several non-profit and for-profit boards and has received numerous awards for her contributions to government digital transformation.

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Mahesh Chowdhary

Mahesh Chowdhary, Ph.D., is a Fellow and the Director of Strategic Platforms and the IoT Excellence Center at STMicroelectronics, based in Santa Clara, CA. He leads the effort on the development of solutions and reference designs for mobile phones, consumer electronic devices, automotive and industrial applications that utilize MEMS sensors, and computing and connectivity products. His areas of expertise include AI/ML, MEMS sensors, IoT, digital transformation, and location technologies. He has been awarded 24 patents. He has spoken extensively internationally about ML, smart sensors, and IoT. Mahesh received his Ph.D. in applied science (particle accelerators) from the College of William and Mary in Virginia. He is also an adjunct professor at IIT, Delhi.

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Nital Patel

Nital Patel, Ph.D., is a Principal Engineer responsible for advanced manufacturing systems research and development at Intel, Corporation. He has spent his career contributing to digital transformation activities and projects across the manufacturing spectrum as well as in the areas of enabling agility in the enterprise supply chain leveraging data fusion, machine learning and AI. He is the lead inventor on 11 patents, has published over 50 journal and conference papers and serves on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing. In the past he has been an Adjunct Professor at the Arizona State University and has been awarded the Mahboob Khan Award from the Semiconductor Research Corporation for mentoring university research students.

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