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Henkel : Developing trust essential to success
Henkel : Developing trust essential to success
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the business frame that we operate in ,” he says . “ We ’ re only now starting to embrace AI and ML but it ’ s an area we ’ re looking to do more in . We ’ re still in the testing stage with a lot of new technology and it ’ s important that we ’ re continuously looking for new opportunities that will accelerate our current processes . We have to always see how far we can push the bar .” With technology ’ s influence on the manufacturing sector showing no signs of slowing , the plethora of data at companies ’ fingertips should be embraced . Over the past few years , Henkel has systematically started to collect an increasing level of real-time data .
A member of Holbach ’ s team , Sergey Afanasyev , International Digital Transformation Manager at Henkel , is focusing on two key pillars : connected workers and digital upskilling . “ I like to encourage digital collaboration between the people using mobile technologies as well as helping build and develop the skills that employees need today because of the digital technologies already in place ,” explains Afanasyev . He believes that new technologies such as AI , ML and Big
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