Sorocaba, BR - Lighthouse award in Productivity

A high-mix, low-to-mid-volume electronics contract manufacturer in a competitive labour market chose to compete on sustainability alongside cost. It rebuilt operations around a fully integrated end-to-end ecosystem — R&D, manufacturing and circular-economy services on one campus — and deployed 4IR use cases spanning digital performance management, EHS, utilities and a circular reverse-logistics platform, cutting material loss by 81% and labour cost by 50% while lifting customer satisfaction.

Sorocaba, BR - Lighthouse award in Sustainability

An electronics manufacturing site running a high-mix, low-to-mid-volume portfolio for more than twenty customers faced a sharp competitiveness challenge that had to be met without backing away from sustainability and worker-safety commitments. The site rebuilt its operations around an integrated circular-economy ecosystem, digital performance management, digital EHS and a supply-chain control tower. The result, between 2015 and 2021, was an 81% cut in material loss, a 50% cut in labour cost, an 18% rise in customer satisfaction and a sharp drop in scope 1 and 2 emissions.

Althofen, AT - Lighthouse award in Productivity

Competition from low-cost regions through labor arbitrage and volume production limited growth prospects in a higher-cost European market. The site used 4IR technology to unlock access to the higher-margin, longer-lifecycle medical class III market while keeping the existing volatile high-mix, low-volume business stable within the same physical footprint, resulting in revenue growth of 50% and profit growth of 93% from FY2017 to FY2021.