Industry Talks

Industry Talks are in the form of privileged plenary Sessions allowing Participants to get in touch with best-in-class industries making the Bologna area a worldwide reference for applied research, innovation, knowledge transfer and excellence in production. Presentations and Q&A with production managers and specialists from industry allow ideas’ exchange, experience collection and inspiration.

The 'Ducati Production System': best practices toward excellence in production

In a customer-centric world of increasingly unpredictable socio-economic factors, companies are forced to continually revise their production processes to remain competitive, focusing on modular, flexible, and lean systems. The Ducati case, at the centre of this keynote speech, helps to understand how a company in the automotive sector manages and reorganizes its internal production by leveraging the pillars of lean production, aiming at being a ‘light’ organization capable of quickly adapting to its boundary conditions that, never before as in the recent years, have been so challenging. For years, Ducati company made lean the cornerstone of the so-called Ducati Production System by putting the customer at the centre but, also, the operators who highly contribute to the creation of value in Borgo Panigale. This is the Ducati formula that has been generating for more than ten years, growing volumes with increasing quality and encouraging economic results for the future.

Advanced Analytics on Raw Material transformation process

Anomaly detection algorithms allow to predict the behavior of Semi-Finished product and equipment to prevent process and quality failures. Leveraging on Big Data Volume framed to generate a complete picture of an entire department.

Aldini Valeriani Foundation - Training dialogues with Universities and Business

This talk addresses the issue of collaboration between the world of vocational training, universities and businesses to develop the competitiveness of companies, the employability of people, as well as the economic and social growth of local areas. Some of the opportunities developed in our region (i.e. Emilia Romagna region, Italy) to promote quality employment by strengthening people's skills in dealing with changes in the employment market will be presented. The Aldini Valeriani Foundation helps develop the synergy between universities and local businesses by proposing training courses designed together and aimed at acquiring specialist skills useful for a concrete entry into the employment world, to encourage the exchange and sharing of knowledge, to create long-term partnerships and opportunities as well as to stimulate innovation, entrepreneurship and creativity. The Aldini Valeriani Foundation is Confindustria Emilia Area Centro’s school of industrial management, founded in the technical heart of Bologna, Italy, the training place of those local industrialists who made the region famous and unique in the world with their stories and activities.