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From disruption to advantage: A leadership moment
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At the Factory: Male Mechanical Engineer Holds Component while Female Chief Engineer Work on Personal Computer, They Discuss Details of the 3D Engine Model Design.
Capturing value from manufacturing support functions
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From ineffective audits to energy excellence
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US manufacturing’s next test: Building a workforce for a new era
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A US productivity unlock: Investing in frontline workers’ AI skills
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Decoding disruption to reshape manufacturing footprints
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Two engineers stand in a high-tech automotive manufacturing facility discussing data displayed on digital screens and a tablet, with robotic machinery operating in the background.
From pilots to performance: How COOs can scale AI in manufacturing
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Supply chain risk pulse 2025: Tariffs reshuffle global trade priorities
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Bold accelerators: How operations leaders are pulling ahead using AI
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Frontline of the future: Are you building your future workforce now?
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Will embodied AI create robotic coworkers?
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Frontline innovations in focus: Transforming maintenance operations
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Emirates Global Aluminium: Leading the industry with AI-driven transformation
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Safer, greener, faster: AI-powered supply chains in action
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Lighthouse lessons: Four mindsets to make digital transformation stick
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Beyond automation: How gen AI is reshaping supply chains
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Lessons from the Lighthouses
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Decoding success: How leaders get value from advanced planning systems
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Rewiring maintenance with gen AI
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Gen AI: A game changer for biopharma operations
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Putting people first: A new imperative for manufacturing
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Digital logistics: Into the express lane?
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Digital twins: The key to unlocking end-to-end supply chain growth
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How product-focused operations can accelerate global shipbuilding
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Breaking operational barriers to peak productivity
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Is your frontline workforce strategy right for where you are?
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Organizational evolution and getting empowerment right
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Today’s industrial revolution calls for an organization to match
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Unlocking frontline workforce stability and productivity in operations
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Supply chain ‘goes rouge’: Inside Coty’s makeover
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Automation and the talent challenge in American manufacturing
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Manufacturing needs a makeover
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Decarbonizing logistics: Charting the path ahead
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From AI to Impact: Capabilities powering Lighthouses’ 4IR adoption
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From hire to inspire: Getting—and keeping—Gen Z in manufacturing
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Why flow matters most in highly complex manufacturing
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The battery cell component opportunity in Europe and North America
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How manufacturing’s Lighthouses are capturing the full value of AI
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Vital signs: Emergency medicine for distressed manufacturing sites
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A new holistic view on circular value chains
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Harnessing generative AI in manufacturing and supply chains
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2024 tech takeaways for leaders
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Adopting AI at speed and scale: The 4IR push to stay competitive
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More uptime, lower cost: Boosting organizational health in maintenance
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Canal delays and the impact on global supply chains
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Tech-enabled transformations: Three supply chain success stories
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Today’s good to great: Next-generation operational excellence
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Digital twins: The next frontier of factory optimization
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Getting warehouse automation right
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Robot picking a box in a manufacturing factory.
Digital logistics: Technology race gathers momentum
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Tech and regionalization bolster supply chains, but complacency looms
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Boosting Vietnam’s manufacturing sector: From low cost to high productivity
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Solving the digital manufacturing disconnect: A case study
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AI: The next frontier of performance in industrial processing plants
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Supply chain resilience—in China and everywhere else
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Ops 4.0—The Human Factor: Apprenticeships today for skills tomorrow
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Operational efficiency: A clear path to outperformance in distribution
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Moving supply chain leaders to the C-suite
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Ops 4.0—The Human Factor: It takes two to build capabilities
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When technology meets operational excellence
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The next frontier of customer engagement: AI-enabled customer service
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Battery recycling takes the driver’s seat
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Maintenance and operations: Is asset productivity broken?
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Taking off: Scaling complex manufacturing in the aerospace industry
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Indirect manufacturing costs: An overlooked source for clear savings
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A new operations formula for the chemicals sector
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The winning recipe for transforming advanced planning systems
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Battery 2030: Resilient, sustainable, and circular
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The next chapter: Lighthouses shape the Fourth Industrial Revolution
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Failure is not an option: How to get resilience right
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To regionalize or not? Optimizing North American supply chains
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Great service—but who’s paying?
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Digital twins: Flying high, flexing fast
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114 down, 10 million to go: The Global Lighthouse Network’s mission
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Building sustainability into operations
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Power spike: How battery makers can respond to surging demand from EVs
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Medicine
Reimagining the future of biopharma manufacturing
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The scaling imperative for industry 4.0
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Emerging from disruption: The future of pharma operations strategy
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Digital twins: What could they do for your business?
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A more resilient supply chain from optimized operations planning
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Harnessing volatility: Technology transformation in oil and gas
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Delivering the US manufacturing renaissance
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Taking the pulse of shifting supply chains
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Ops 4.0—The Human Factor: Powering the learning and development engine
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How mining companies reach the operational excellence gold standard
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Ops 4.0—The Human Factor: The need for speed in building skills
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Converge IT and OT to turbocharge business operations’ scaling power
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Transforming advanced manufacturing through Industry 4.0
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Mastering the dual mission: Carbon and cost savings
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Future-proofing the supply chain
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Advanced tech elevates process modeling in batch-processing industries
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A better way to drive your business
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Supply chains: To build resilience, manage proactively
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Outsprinting the energy crisis
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Capturing the true value of Industry 4.0
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Navigating the semiconductor chip shortage: A control-tower case study
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Lighthouses reveal a playbook for responsible industry transformation
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Smart operators: How leading companies use machine intelligence
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Transforming supply chains: Do you have the skills to accelerate your capabilities?
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The mainstreaming of additive manufacturing
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Autonomous supply chain planning for consumer goods companies
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Toward smart production: Machine intelligence in business operations
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To improve your supply chain, modernize your supply-chain IT
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Ulf Schrader
Senior PartnerHamburg
Leads McKinsey’s manufacturing and supply chain work, serving companies on operations performance transformations, operations...
Raffaele Carpi
PartnerLisbon
Leads operations-performance transformations that deliver bottom-line impact across manufacturing sectors
Enno de Boer
Senior PartnerNew Jersey
Leads the firm’s global work in digital manufacturing and collaboration with the World Economic Forum on technology adoption
Javier del Pozo
PartnerSeoul
Global seasoned manufacturing practitioner; leads McKinsey’s Manufacturing & Supply Chain Practice in Asia–Pacific
Neelesh Mundra
Senior PartnerMumbai
Leads McKinsey’s manufacturing and supply chain endeavors in Asia while supporting logistics projects for the region.
Olivier Noterdaeme
Senior PartnerBrussels
Coleads QuantumBlack, a McKinsey company; serves clients in asset-heavy industries by leveraging advanced analytics
Sven Houthuys
PartnerAmsterdam
Advises and serves consumer-packaged-goods and energy-sector companies, with a focus on digital, capability building, large-scale...
Cinzia Lacopeta
Solutions Associate PartnerMilan
Coleads the firm’s Innovation & Learning Centers in Europe and North America; focuses on building lasting capabilities on relevant...
Kristian Kinscher
PartnerDüsseldorf
Helps global pharmaceutical companies transform operations, redefine strategies, and innovate in R&D
Rahul Shahani
PartnerNew York
Leads the North American Industry 4.0 service line for manufacturing, including the Innovation & Learning Centers—a global network...

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