Industry X: Resilience & Reinvention in the Age of AI

Accenture’s Industry X practice combines powerful digital capabilities with deep domain knowledge in manufacturing to help enterprises reinvent for the future. Our recent industry X summit, the 2025 Manufacturing Futurecast, brought together industry leaders, domain experts across sectors—including automotive, consumer products, pharmaceuticals, high-tech, utilities and industrial manufacturing—at the Accenture Innovation Hub in Bangalore to experience our future-fit digital solutions in action. They had the opportunity to experience immersive presentations of Accenture’s industry-leading and AI-led manufacturing capabilities – such as digital continuity, digital operation twin, connected shop floor, intelligent warehouse, supply optimization, greenfield and brownfield digitization, autonomous operations and more.

The daylong workshop kicked off with a keynote address by Dr. Bhaskar Ghosh, Accenture’s Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer. Dr. Ghosh highlighted India’s strong growth potential as a hub for manufacturing and Industry 4.0. He stressed the importance of leveraging AI as the new digital frontier, a theme that resonated throughout the event.

The Manufacturing Futurecast was also a platform for discussing key manufacturing trends, global use cases and Accenture’s proven expertise in reinventing the manufacturing sector. Watch Highlights

NEWS & VIEWS

The Generative AI Route to Improving Net Productivity for Manufacturers

A dedicated session at the 2025 Accenture Manufacturing Futurecast delved into the latest trends in Indian and global manufacturing—presented by Fay Cranmer, Senior MD & Lead - APAC, Industry X, Accenture, and Vijay Kumar Baliyan, MD and Lead – Industry X, Accenture in India. One of the key takeaways was the role of generative AI in unlocking a quantum leap in AI capabilities — helping manufacturers adopt the next performance frontier, driving innovation and efficiency. The session also focused on how organizations should aim to bridge the critical skills gap in manufacturing, along with adopting AI-powered digital manufacturing to improve net productivity. Discuss

How to Achieve Cost & Productivity Reinvention in Discrete Manufacturing Industry

A critical panel discussion at Accenture Manufacturing Futurecast 2025 featured industry leaders—Sanjeev Singh, COO, Ather Energy; Gaurav Gulati, Group CIO, Motherson Group; Shaji Kakkodi, CDO, Malabar Group and Amneet Singh, MD & Lead - Products, Accenture in India—who explored how generative AI can drive innovation and new ways of working in the discrete manufacturing industry. Moderated by Patrick Vollmer, Senior MD & Global Lead - Industrials, Accenture, the panel shared insights on how AI can help manufacturers achieve cost and productivity reinvention. They discussed real-world use cases where AI has been successfully implemented in manufacturing, leading to significant improvements in efficiency and quality. Discuss

Process Manufacturing Transformation: The Need for a Strong AI-led Digital Core

Another key panel discussion—featuring Gagandeep Sethi, Senior Vice President- Integrated Operations and Sustainability & Responsibility, Pernod Ricard India; Ashish Ranjan, CDO, NBC and Nigel Stacey, Senior MD & Lead – Industry X, Global, Accenture—focused on the process manufacturing industry. The highlight was the need for manufacturers to build a strong AI-led digital core. This digital core is essential for enabling intelligent and autonomous manufacturing across the network. Moderated by Theresa Eyssens, MD & Lead – Industry X Strategic Sales, APAC, Accenture, the panel emphasized that the integration of AI is not just about automating tasks but about creating a smarter, more responsive manufacturing ecosystem. Discuss

How We Helped Pernod Ricard India Unlock Manufacturing Excellence

Accenture’s Industry X prowess is also the focus of the latest episode of BT-Accenture Leadership Dialogues Series. The episode features Gagandeep Sethi, Senior Vice President- Integrated Operations and Sustainability & Responsibility, Pernod Ricard India; Vijay Kumar Baliyan, Managing Director and Lead – Industry X, Accenture in India; and Amneet Singh, Managing Director and Lead - Products, Accenture in India in conversation with Business Today’s Sakshi Batra. The industry leaders discuss how Accenture’s Industry X practice is helping Pernod Ricard India drive its PRIME program to reinvent manufacturing. The initiative, which is optimizing the leading spirits maker’s manufacturing and operations—while focusing on premiumization, innovation and sustainability—has the potential to be adopted as a template across other organizations in the consumer-packaged goods sector. Watch Episode | Read Article | Discuss

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