Smart Factory? Smart People? | JOACHIM HENSCH | TEDxBergamo

Joachim is the Managing Director of HUGO BOSS Textile Industries, Ltd. Starting as a tailor for several years in bespoke couture, he later moved into the ready to wear business and since then has taken various positions, mainly in the field of product development. In 2015 he took the position of managing director in the biggest factory of HUGO BOSS Group located in İzmir with 3,800 employees. His most important target is to transfer the whole organization into a flexible and reactive Smart Factory with implementation of industry 4.0 measures. Within this approach he is in the forefront of innovation excellence in garment manufacturing and the Izmir Factory is a role model for global industry.
Joachim è Managing Director di HUGO BOSS Textile Industries, Ltd. All’inizio della sua carriera, ha lavorato come sarto nell’alta moda, per poi passare al Prêt-à-Porter dove ha ricoperto diverse posizioni nel campo dello sviluppo del prodotto. Nel 2015 è diventato Managing Director del più grande stabilimento del gruppo HUGO BOSS che ha sede a Izmir e conta 3800 dipendenti. Il suo principale obiettivo è trasformare l'intera azienda in una Smart Factory flessibile e reattiva, seguendo le linee guida dell’Industria 4.0. In quest'ottica Joachim è in prima linea nell'eccellenza dell'innovazione per quanto riguarda la produzione di capi d’abbigliamento e la Fabbrica di Izmir è sicuramente un modello per l'industria globale.
Joachim is the Managing Director of HUGO BOSS Textile Industries, Ltd. Starting as a tailor for several years in bespoke couture, he later moved into the ready to wear business and since then has taken various positions, mainly in the field of product development. In 2015 he took the position of managing director in the biggest factory of HUGO BOSS Group located in İzmir with 3,800 employees. His most important target is to transfer the whole organization into a flexible and reactive Smart Factory with implementation of industry 4.0 measures. Within this approach he is in the forefront of innovation excellence in garment manufacturing and the Izmir Factory is a role model for global industry. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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What is going on around the 12:00 minute mark in this presentation is something that always was a hallmark of Chinese production. The country where it was always easiest to make a variety of product with high output.
The fall of Quotas 2005 and Chinese factories who continue to work on very slim margins stifled the industry in most other locations.
It is wonderful that Hugo Boss has taken an experimental step into backwards integration - and that it is working out for a high value brand. However, without a clear path to better utilisation, I still see many barriers to this becoming more mainstream.