This presentation was conducted at the future of smart manufacturing in Sharjah event, as organized by the Science Technology and Innovation Park and the American University of Sharjah, on 15/4/2019

1. The Future of Industry 4.0 in UAE
Dr. Saeed Khalfan Aldhaheri
Chairman of the Board, Smartworld L.L.C
Advisor, Digital Trust, PwC Middle East
@DDSaeed
Future of Smart Manufacturing in Sharjah, Science Research Technology and Innovation Park (SRTI), Sharjah, 15/4/2019

2. Agenda
• UAE Policies and Strategies to Lead the industry 4.0
• What is Industry 4.0?
• Benefits of adopting industry 4.0
• Challenges in adopting industry 4.0
• Blueprint for success
• UAE examples

3. UAE Policies and Strategies to
Lead the Industry 4.0
• Focus on national talent development and
entrepreneurs
• Develop and build core and advanced skills
need for the industry 4.0
• Future foresight of key industries and
domains
• UAE to be a world open lab to test and
apply 4IR technologies
• Focus on R&D and establish funding
mechanism for innovation incubators
• Focus on new scientific disciplines such as
biotech, genetic eng, AI, Blockchain and
cybersecurity
• Focus to teach STEM throughout all levels
of education
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UAE Centennial Plan: to be the best country in the world by 2071

4. UAE is committed
to grow the
manufacturing
sector
UAE looking to increase the GDP
share of manufacturing sector
Source: Ministry of Economy, UAE

5. What is Industry 4.0
• Stand for the 4IR
• “The next phase in the digitisation of the
manufacturing sector” - McKinsey
• Other terms: Smart Factory, Smart manufacturing, or
Industrial Internet
• Focus on the end-to-end digitisation of physical
assets and integration into digital ecosystems with
value chain partners
• Focus on M2M, H2M and B2M connectivity
(machine-as-a service)
• Benefit: a more flexible, resource-efficient,
customized way of manufacturing
• Helps to predict vs. react
• Requires organizational change: paradigm shift from
factory floor workers to c-suite decision makers
• Is a journey starts with a roadmap
Source: Industry 4.0: Building the Digital Industrial Enterprise, PwC 2016 ME Industry 4.0 Survey
Industry 4.0 framework and contributing digital technologies

6. Digitization has the potential to
achieve revenue growth and cost
reduction
• PwC’s 2016 Industry 4.0 Middle East Survey
• 52 participants from 6 industries
• engineering and construction (37% of participants)
• industrial manufacturing (31%)
• transportation and logistics (21%)
• chemicals and metal companies
• some perceive digitisation in narrow ERP system
• companies worldwide are set to invest
approximately 5% of their revenues annually on
digitization. PwC

7. Industry 4.0 is about
Integration of vertical and
horizontal value chains
• Digitisation and integration of vertical and
horizontal value chains
• vertical: from product development,
purchasing, manufacturing, logistics and
services
• horizontal: extends to customers, suppliers
and all value chain partners
• All data are available real-time
• Digitization of products & services
• New digital business models and customer
access

8. Challenges in
adopting industry
4.0
• Lack of digital culture and training
• Lack of skills
• Lack of data analytics capability
• 60% believe that standard enterprise
resource planning (ERP) solutions are the
most suitable data analytics platform.
• “the biggest challenge companies face is
not buying the right technology, it is rather
the organizational culture and people
change and transformation, which requires
long-term change programmes.” PwC
• Source: Industry 4.0: Building the Digital Industrial Enterprise, PwC 2016 ME Industry 4.0 Survey

9. Blueprint for Success
Source: Industry 4.0: Building the Digital Industrial Enterprise, PwC 2016 ME Industry 4.0 Survey

10. UAE examples:
• Strata, the advanced composite aero structures manufacturing
company, aim to become a world class competitive business
• to establish a digital factory in which product/ process traceability,
process automation and digital feedback will be a norm
• Agility, quality and speed of delivery will be strong drivers
• The roadmap started in 2013.
• covers all elements of digital product data creation,
management and manufacturing execution
• A robotic system to automate the operations assembly unit
and to be integrated into Strata production line
• to collaborate with DGWorld (Digi Robotics Technologies)
• partnership with Etihad to develop the first 3D printed part
for aircraft interior
• Developing local talent capability
• focusing on building and developing workforce through
continuous trainings
• provides many opportunities for the local community

11. UAE Examples:
• Ducab – one of the Middle East’s
leading manufacturers of energy
cables.
• Strive to be the lowest cost, highest
quality cable manufacturer in the world
• plans to use Industry 4.0 for a
complete supply chain
transformation.
• aims to collect existing data from
machines and integrate it with supplier
data to streamline the process, improve
logistics and efficiently track inventory,
thereby saving time and reducing costs.
• Better use of sensors will track and trace
inventory whilst on site and in transit to
customers
• develop much better interfaces with
customers, with more live data allowing
on the spot decisions about price and
availability

12. Thank you