About the Manufacturing Technology training 

A single email once shut down an entire aluminum factory. How? Because today’s factories run on tightly connected digital and physical systems. What was once two separate worlds - IT for business processes, OT for machines - is now converging. 

Modern manufacturing facilities, packed with Internet of Things (IoT) devices and connected via the cloud, enable smarter, faster manufacturing than ever before. But this also brings new risks and complexity. 

In this Primer, we’ll break down the modern manufacturing tech stack - both OT and IT, explore the major vendors and dynamics of the competitive landscape, and see the different ways manufacturers evaluate tech spend.

Learning objectives 

In this Primer, you will learn: 

• What Manufacturing Technology is and why it is important in modern manufacturing 

• The different layers of the OT and IT tech stacks and how they interact 

• Who the major vendors are and how the competitive dynamics are evolving 

• What IT/OT convergence is and how it is reshaping the manufacturing technology landscape 

• How manufacturers categorize and evaluate technology spend