ACI CONNECT 2015Presentation Title: Engineering for ChangeSpeaker: Paul Wallbank

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• The future is here now• Connected machines are changing the business world and our society

• We are seeing dramatically improved productivity• Workforces are changing

• There are downsides – ethics are security• We need to learn from history

Engineering for change

• A conceit that change is new• Today we’re on the cusp of great change like in

1915• Prior to 1915 there had been massive change.• The 20th Century was massive change• Energy became cheap and abundant in the 20th

Century, today it’s informationEntering the data age

• Increased monitoring• Cheaper and smaller devices• Massive expansion in data collection• Do we need to collect all this data• Risks in storage and analytics• Hackable cars - Corvette

The Internet of Bees

• Collecting data requires processing • DATA IS NOT THE NEW OIL• Farmers increasingly using analytics to increase yields• Working towards the zero downtime economy• GE optimising truck and locomotive performance• Analytics creates a range of risks: Facebook friends

being mined for credit scoresAnalytics

• Management • Uber• Changing demographics• Many US states have truck drivers as the biggest

occupation• Loss of fifty percent of law enforcement• baristas

Automation spreads

• Oil and gas industry• The Zero Defect Economy• No planned downtime• Changes the break fix model

Increased efficiencies

• This is not just a Chinese problem, it is also one for southern Europe, Russia, North America and, most of all Japan

• The skills needed today are very different to those of 1915 and 1965. Those of the next fifty years will be even different.

• What value can we add to our communities and society?Reskilling the workforce

Contact mewww.paulwallbank.compaul@paulwallbank.com@paulwallbank

www.aciconnect.com.au

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