Stuart Thomson is a Sr Director of Program Management at GE Aviation – focusing on MES and QMS Implementations & Architecture across the global enterprise. Stuart has 10 years’ experience in deploying, configuring and managing MES solutions within the Aerospace industry. Today, the MES organization that Stuart oversees is focused on maximizing data collection opportunities from the shopfloor, both from operators and from machines. This enables the creation of a digital twin of the shopfloor environment to better arm planners and production management with information to effect positive change in their shops.

Robert Landick is Vice President of Software and Services at CB Pacific and has led the Software and Controls business of CB Pacific for the last 25 years. Robert started his career as a manufacturing engineer with Boeing Commercial and touched all parts of the airplane manufacturing business. He later moved on to a new venture where he led the manufacturing assembly operation for a variety of new digital instruments. Recently he has been working with manufacturers to help them utilize technology to collect data from the plant floor to digitize and improve their manufacturing processes.