Tom Leeson

Tom is Industry Marketing Strategist for the Manufacturing Sector globally. An Engineer by Trade, and Mathematician by Education, Tom’s entire career has been spent in Engineering, Manufacturing and IT helping customers digitally transform their business and their manufacturing sector. With Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things, Manufacturing lives in exciting times, so there is much to talk about.

Automotive & Manufacturing

Tom LeesonMarch 25, 2022

From safety to resilience to transformation

In March of 2021, manufacturing activity in the U.S. surged to a 37-year high and, today, capacity is virtually at…
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Automotive & Manufacturing

Tom LeesonJanuary 11, 2022

Top predictions for the Manufacturing Industry in 2022

When the New York Times runs with the headline ‘How the World Ran Out of Everything’, you know it’s been…
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Automotive & Manufacturing

Tom LeesonNovember 26, 2021

Why e-Invoicing has become a global superhero

Who’d have thought the humble invoice was a superhero? Yet, slip a digital cloak on it and it becomes the…
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Automotive & Manufacturing

Tom LeesonNovember 25, 2021

Manufacturers unite: Driving safe operations, together

Among the turbulence and uncertainty created by the pandemic over the past 18 months there have been silver linings —…
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Automotive & Manufacturing

Tom LeesonJuly 27, 2021

Location, location, location. Why asset tracking is hot property

It’s good to start your blog with an eye-catching statistic: The North American auto industry loses over $750 million in…
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Automotive & Manufacturing

Tom LeesonJuly 8, 2021

Why effective asset visibility starts at the digital twin

The cost of poor asset visibility is potentially enormous. Estimates suggest companies are losing almost $25 billion each year in…
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Automotive & Manufacturing

Tom LeesonFebruary 10, 2021

Reducing the data gap

Manufacturing organizations have risen to the challenge of thwarting the disruptions from COVID-19. There’s plenty to applaud among companies across…
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Automotive & Manufacturing

Tom LeesonJanuary 15, 2021

7 information challenges impacting the semiconductor boom in 2021

While the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic slowed the semiconductor sector, it is now recovering and can look forward to a period of significant growth in…
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Automotive & Manufacturing

Tom LeesonJanuary 7, 2021

The top tech trends in manufacturing for 2021

Well, that wasn’t the year any of us expected! Yet, in many cases, it saw remarkable successes in incredible circumstances. The…
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Industries

Tom LeesonNovember 19, 2020

Leveraging manufacturing data in a smart, connected and secure way

Recently, there’s been increasing talk about how both the Industrial Internet of things (IIoT) and Digital Twins play a crucial role in an…
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Industries

Tom LeesonOctober 6, 2020

Key Industry 4.0 trends as the world emerges from COVID-19

Even before COVID-19, Industry 4.0 technologies were beginning to have a major impact on the transformation of manufacturers worldwide. Now,…
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Industries

Tom LeesonSeptember 4, 2020

Building resilient digital supply chains in Japanese auto and manufacturing

For decades, the Japanese automotive and manufacturing industries have been the envy of the world. They have exported production models…
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Automotive & Manufacturing

Tom LeesonAugust 11, 2020

Technology trends in automotive

A few short months ago, I wrote a blog predicting the top tech trends for manufacturing and automotive for 2020.…
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Automotive & Manufacturing

Tom LeesonJuly 16, 2020

Empowering the data-driven manufacturer

The global manufacturing sector is facing a crisis on a scale not seen before. At one point, according to BCG1,…
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Automotive & Manufacturing

Tom LeesonMay 1, 2020

Is data monetization the way forward for manufacturers?

At OpenText™, we’ve been talking a lot about how to build resilience into organizations. In the latest edition of the…
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Automotive & Manufacturing

Tom LeesonApril 27, 2020

Accelerating digital transformation in manufacturing

The global manufacturing sector is in the midst of a crisis on a scale not seen before. At one point,…
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Tom LeesonJanuary 3, 2020

Predicting the top 7 trends in manufacturing for 2020

After starting the year strongly, manufacturing left 2019 faced with shrinking production and global uncertainty. Deloitte suggests manufacturers should increase…
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Tom LeesonDecember 10, 2019

Welcome to the era of the industrial cloud

The industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is having a profound effect on how manufacturing organizations share information. The explosion in…
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Tom LeesonNovember 21, 2019

Sink or swim in the data tsunami

We talk a lot about digital disruption and how new technologies are dramatically altering manufacturers’ business models and operations. While…
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Tom LeesonSeptember 6, 2019

Taming the data tsunami

The industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is about to transform everything for manufacturers. From smart factories to autonomous supply chains…
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