Next Level Production - Automation in MedTech manufacturing

Production in medical technology differs from other industries in key aspects, in particular due to high regulatory requirements, strict quality standards and the close integration of product, process and documentation over the entire life cycle. Against this background, the presentation highlights the specific challenges and success factors of a modern production system in medical technology. Using the High Energy Photonics Center as an example, it will show how the transformation of production can be designed holistically. The focus is on a suitable transformation framework, the development of an end-to-end tool chain with the associated applications, the integration of the entire product life cycle and the targeted use of automation to increase efficiency, quality and scalability. Another focus is on the use of robotics in medical technology production and the potential of physical AI to support intelligent, adaptive and high-precision manufacturing processes. In addition, it is emphasized that technological transformation can only be successful in the long term if change management is understood and actively shaped as an integral part of change.

Automation, AI and robotics are also fundamentally changing medical technology. However, the more powerful the technology becomes, the more crucial what it cannot do becomes: Judgment, decision-making and responsibility. In his presentation, Dr Michael Schackert shows how successful digitalization and change projects can be accelerated by technology - if people can really be brought on board.
His central thesis: AI is increasingly taking over the executive activities. This finally creates the space for real leadership work - conveying meaning, giving direction, making decisions in uncertainty and bearing real responsibility. As COO of digitalization expert XITASO, he accompanies companies on their way into the AI-supported future - and experiences every day that the biggest levers are not the better processes themselves, but the assumption of responsibility by the people who carry these processes.
Self-organization in the design of framework conditions in which teams can make full use of their strengths is not a soft topic - but the decisive difference. The presentation combines operational management practice with concrete approaches for change in regulated production environments and shows how this can be achieved: Change succeeds sustainably when people are empowered rather than managed.