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Carlos Rojas

With more than 36 years of industrial engineering and digital manufacturing experience, Carlos has led manufacturing and supply chain transformation projects ranging from New Business Start-ups, to projects centered on Lean Manufacturing and Plant “Turn-Arounds”. For the last 13 years at Cisco, Carlos has deployed Digital Manufacturing Solutions for some of Cisco’s largest customers across the globe; solving for their Big Data, Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0 initiatives.

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September 13, 2022

MANUFACTURING

Visibility & Resiliency: Letting Your Factory Work For You

Manufacturing visibility and resiliency offer great promise for manufacturers to optimize business operations and, at the same time, improve customer satisfaction. The golden key to pervasive manufacturing visibility and resiliency lies in the scalable infrastructure that delivers factory data in real time. This "restructuring" of your infrastructure allows your factory to be prepared for anything that can be thrown its way.

June 23, 2022

MANUFACTURING

Want A Thriving Workforce? Consider Hybrid Work

Unless we are talking about highly automated plants, manufacturing workers will always be on-site and unable to work from remote locations. It makes sense to provide this workforce with the same digital mobility and collaboration tools that office workers have — or risk losing a greater mindshare of next generation of workers.

April 21, 2022

MANUFACTURING

5G: Enabling Change For Manufacturers

In today’s world of manufacturing, there is a new convergence happening. A greater number of available technologies are meeting the dynamics of changing workforces, fragile supply chains, and the ever-present market demand for better and cheaper products and services.

January 14, 2022

MANUFACTURING

The time to transform manufacturing was yesterday, and sustainability has a NEW meaning.

Because of massive turnover in workforces, a renewed focus on employee safety, and negative impacts on customer loyalty and satisfaction, manufacturers have built new business models to service their customers. They’ve deployed new hybrid workplace models and renewed their focus on the Circular Economy. Because of this, sustainability’s new meaning in the Manufacturing industry is […]

January 14, 2021

MANUFACTURING

The Kickoff: 2021 Manufacturing Trends Podcast Series

During our series of 2021 Trends in Manufacturing, we will explore what's needed to achieve “Extreme Agility,” as well as the technologies that Cisco and others provide that deliver the business needs essential for the “new normal.”