Industrial and manufacturing GCCs
Manufacturing captives increasingly build ops technology, engineering software, analytics, and digital twin style representations of assets and processes. The work fails when it is pure IT theater disconnected from plants.
What to get right
- People who understand OT/IT boundaries and shop-floor constraints
- Data pipelines that survive messy industrial reality
- Close loops with plant and product engineering stakeholders
- Security suited to industrial environments
30 / 60 / 90
- 30: One industrial workflow or asset class to improve.
- 60: Mixed squad (domain + software/data) formed.
- 90: Pilot with a plant or engineering sponsor who will use it.
Takeaway
Digital twins without users are demos.
Build for operators and engineers who live with the outcome.