Michael UngarCEO of the Industry 4.0 Club

Supply Chain Resilience & AI in Manufacturing: Expert Insights

4 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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In this expert talk, the speaker emphasizes the heightened focus on supply chain resiliency following recent disruptions, introducing the concept of a more connected digital supply chain. They discuss the need for interoperability across multiple tiers of the supply chain, especially for manufacturing, and highlight emerging risks such as cybersecurity threats and intellectual‑property protection. The speaker advocates a shift in systems management toward "design for data" and "design for security," urging organizations to embed these considerations into their strategic roadmaps and deepen partnership models with suppliers.

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I'll start with one that I think is probably on everyone's mind, and that's supply chain resiliency. Yeah. So we've just come through a period, a couple of years where we've really been battle tested around existing supply chain thinking. And I think that's driving a lot more of a need to understand kind of the, what I would call the digital supply chain, as well as the different tiers and the interoperability between the tiers and the requirements for manufacturing. Yeah. At those levels of interoperability. And by that, I mean, you're looking at resiliency, you're doing different scenario planning, but you're also contemplating a world, and I use the word digital supply chain, that's more connected. And that exposes a whole area of risk around security and obviously cybersecurity and control of intellectual property and a need to maybe partner on a different level with your supply chain. And that's an added complexity in manufacturing. So it really requires a different kind of thinking, a different kind of systems management, a different perspective on data, what data's going to do for you, and to get people to start thinking about design for data, design for security, and start to integrate that into their roadmaps.