Marcel Triepels, Enterprise Architect, Marel
Marcel Triepels has over 25 years of experience in manufacturing and supply chain processes across industries. For over 18 years he has been involved in advancing business processes through IT in complex international business environments. He is an advocate for Industry 4.0 and enabling digital business transformation for the manufacturing industry.
At Marel, Marcel is a key player in information strategy and design of the digital business platform. He is responsible for creating an IT landscape that supports Marel’s strategic objectives and for IT designs that are coherent across business processes, locations and organizational entities.
The Product Highway and Composable Architecture as Corner Stones for a Resilient Business
Today’s complex and highly configurable products with long service lives require a new approach to access critical product data across their lifecycle. Rising complexity across products and value chains requires improved connectivity and traceability of data to reduce risk and accelerate product development and delivery without compromising product integrity. Marcel Triepels, Enterprise Architect at Marel, a leading food processing equipment manufacturer, will describe their approach to building modular and composable IT solutions utilizing CONTACT Elements to enable a digital product data thread, linking data from various sources across functions, and across phases of the product lifecycle.