WEBINAR

Scaling in Digital Frontline: Sonoco’s Multi-Site Success

Digitizing one plant is hard. Scaling across 11 is transformative. Sonoco replaced whiteboards with real-time data—turning plant-floor noise into gains in uptime, safety, and ROI. Join us March 17 at 12pm ET to see the blueprint driving enterprise-wide results.
March 17, 2026
4:00 PM UTC
1 hour

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Summary

Digitizing operations at one plant can be extremely challenging. Imagine scaling transformation across 11 sites. Food, pharmaceutical, industrial and consumer products packaging company Sonoco did just that — swapping manual whiteboards and jotted notes for digital, real-time data. The projected turned plant-floor "noise" into a strategic advantage in maintenance, safety, and downtime reduction. (RS update)

Join us on Tuesday, March 17 at 12pm ET to see the blueprint Sonoco uses to operationalize digital transformation and drive measurable ROI enterprise-wide.

What we’ll discuss:

  • Standardizing at Scale: The roadmap for rolling out a unified digital model across 11+ facilities.
  • From Manual to Actionable: How moving away from whiteboards and manual efforts gave the frontline the real-time data they need to actually solve problems.
  • Maintenance & Reliability: Specific strategies that shifted their culture from reactive "firefighting" to high-uptime performance.
  • Safety Automation: How digital workflows are being used to identify and mitigate risks before they become incidents.

Register today to discover how to stop "managing" data and start using it to drive plant-floor performance.

 

Speaker

Michael Kirkpatrick

Michael Kirkpatrick

Operational Excellence Practitioner

Sonoco

Michael’s career in metal packaging began in 1997 as a Press Operator. Over the next 27 years, he moved from the production line into maintenance and eventually into frontline leadership at Ball and Sonoco. Now an Operational Excellence Practitioner, Michael uses that hands-on experience to make sure new processes actually work for the people using them. He specializes in turning complex operational goals into common-sense solutions for the plant floor.

 

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