Preventing Manufacturing Downtime: Survey Results and Best Practices

Description

What kinds of downtime problems are manufacturers currently facing, and what are they doing to prevent downtime from impacting their operations? During this on-demand IndustryWeek webinar, you'll hear from Roman Bukary, GM of Manufacturing/Wholesale & Distribution at NetSuite. Bukary will review the results of the cost of application downtime survey that IndustryWeek conducted in March.

Over 500 IndustryWeek readers took part in the study. It examined how downtime affects manufacturing operations, and what steps companies are taking to prevent critical applications from stopping production. In this webcast, Roman Bukary and Peter Cook, Director of Global Alliances from Stratus Technologies, reviews the results of the survey that include insights into what manufacturers are currently experiencing with regard to downtime. Learn about the strategies and best practices companies are using to prevent it.

Speakers

Travis Hessman
Editor
IndustryWeek

Travis Hessman is an editor at IndustryWeek covering manufacturing technology. Before joining the staff in 2012, he worked with IW first as an editorial intern 2001 and later as a contributing writer. He received his bachelor's in English from Kent State University and his master's in creative writing from the Northeast Ohio MFA consortium via Kent State University.

Roman Bukary
GM of Manufacturing/Wholesale & Distribution
NetSuite

Roman Bukary spearheads NetSuite's manufacturing and wholesale/distribution industry marketing initiatives. Prior to NetSuite, he was Vice President of Marketing at Truviso, a continuous analytics firm, where he was responsible for marketing and business development. Before Truviso, Bukary was at SAP, where he served as Vice President of the Global Partner Ecosystem Group, responsible for SAP's numerous strategic technology partnerships. Earlier at SAP, he launched the company's analytic application business after holding positions in composite applications and business intelligence solutions marketing.

Bukary has broad experience in building and leading product and industry marketing groups, corporate strategy, and product management with companies including Baan and Parametric Technology Corporation. He started his career as an aeronautical design engineer at Pratt & Whitney, UTC, and holds master's and bachelor's degrees in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Peter Cook
Director of Global Alliances
Stratus Technologies, Inc.

Peter Cook is Director of Global Alliances for Stratus Technologies, Inc. He has over 20 years of experience managing GTM campaigns with enterprise software vendors. Cook is currently responsible for Stratus' global alliance with Microsoft and strategic manufacturing partners such as Rockwell Automation and Invensys.

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