Rethinking Automotive Manufacturing

Andrzej Mencina

Head of Smart Production, ZF LIFETEC Passive Safety Systems

Andrzej has been involved in the automotive industry for the past 21 years. Today as the Head of Smart Production at ZF LIFETEC together with his team, is responsible for conducting feasibility studies and simulations of automation use cases focused on the introduction of cobots, AMRs, and other smart solutions. He achieves effectiveness through the approach of thinking differently and managing scenarios.

Andrzej views today's "can't" or "doesn't exist" not as deficits but as opportunities; perhaps no one has simply thought of it yet.

Albane Dersy

Albane is the COO and co-founder of Inbolt

Albane is the COO and co-founder of inbolt, a company developing GuideNOW, a cutting-edge real-time robot guidance solution powered by 3D vision and AI. Inbolt aims to revolutionize manufacturing by providing industrial robots with robust, efficient and plug-and-play vision capabilities, enabling flexible automation. GuideNOW's real-time AI capabilities are particularly transforming moving assembly lines in the automotive industry, setting new standards for efficiency and productivity.

Susanne Bieller

General Secretary, IFR International Federation of Robotics

Susanne Bieller is the General Secretary of the International Federation of Robotics which serves as the voice of the global robotics industry and invaluable source of statistics on the global robotics market. Susanne has in-depth knowledge of the global robotics market, and current technology trends and is highly involved in advocacy topics in robotics concerning ethical, legal, societal, economic aspects of robotics.

She is dedicated to promoting the benefits of robots for productivity, competitiveness, economic growth and quality of work and life.

Tomasz Sernicki

Commercial and Marketing Manager, Drim Robotics

From the beginning of his professional career, he has been associated with modern technologies for the automotive industry. For many years he has been dealing with 3D systems and the automation of quality control processes, also using Univeral Robots. Development initiator and product manager of, among others, eviXscan 3D scanners. For several years, he has been unleashing the marketing and commercial potential of Drim Robotics, where he has found great opportunities for self-development and self-fulfillment.

“Our customers bring us still new challenges and we need to be creative and always up to date with new technologies to build all these prototypes and final solution.”

Paula Carsi

Manufacturing Transformation and Innovation Manager, Europe and International Markets, Ford Motor Company

Paula, BsC and MsC in Aerospace Engineering, has developed the most of her professional career at Ford Motor Company, inside the Manufacturing Organization, always related to new technologies and innovation.

She began her career in the automotive world as an engineer responsible for collaborative robotics within the engine manufacturing plant. Developing applications to automate manufacturing processes. She led the engineering department at the Engine Plant, working with a team very specialized on emerging technologies. This enabled her to end up creating a centralized manufacturing innovation team for the factory in Valencia, Spain.

She has been scaling this model into the Ford Organization, and currently. She is responsible for the Manufacturing Innovation at the European, Asian and African Ford Plants, being part of a Global Manufacturing Technology Development & Innovation Team.