BEN SCOWEN
TECH & AI to drive digital transformation across the industry,” says Ben Scowen, Vice President UK & Ireland Cloud & Core Leader at Kyndryl.“ We’ re seeing clients leverage the cloud to reduce costs, lower carbon emissions and increase revenue with cloud-native driven innovation.”
Manufacturing’ s precision revolution The traditional model of sending factory data to centralised cloud systems for processing and analysis is giving way to local computing power that can respond instantly to changing conditions on the production floor.
When a production line generates terabytes of sensor data daily, the round trip to cloud servers and back can mean the difference between catching a quality issue in real-time or discovering it after thousands of defective units have been produced.
Anthony Sayers, Edge IoT / IIoT Ambassador at Lenovo ISG, speaking to Manufacturing Digital, explains how this architectural change works in practice:“ Edge computing is defined by moving the compute to where the data is generated: in manufacturing, that means computing power within the plant itself, connected to Program Logic controllers, sensors or cameras overseeing the production line.”
The economic implications are substantial. Traditional reactive maintenance approaches – where equipment runs until failure – can cost manufacturers up to 10 times more than predictive strategies. Rather than scheduling maintenance based on time intervals or waiting for breakdowns, factories can now analyse vibration
BEN SCOWEN
TITLE: VICE PRESIDENT UK & IRELAND CLOUD & CORE LEADER
COMPANY: KYNDRYL
Ben’ s main focus at Kyndryl is to scale up the company’ s comprehensive consultancy efforts in the UK and Ireland, to provide more customers with better mission-critical business and IT outcomes.