Manufacturing Coffee Breaks: From disruption to advantage

A five part 30-minute live coffee-chat series for manufacturing leaders ready to take a smarter break—one focused on resilience, modernization, and what’s next.

Dates: November 4th, December 2nd, January 6th, February 3rd, March 3rd
Time: 11:00 AM ET

 

Series overview

Pour a cup and join OpenText for five practical, 30-minute conversations built for busy manufacturing leaders. Each Coffee Break explores how manufacturers can move from reacting to disruption to creating advantage—by modernizing the information, systems, and experiences that keep operations moving.

Across five focused sessions, we’ll unpack the real pressures shaping manufacturing today: recall readiness, document control, IT/OT resilience, connected experiences, and cyber defense. Bring your coffee and leave with practical ideas to strengthen resilience, improve visibility, and build the trusted information foundation AI needs to deliver real value.

Who should attend: Leaders in manufacturing operations, engineering, quality, supply chain, IT/OT, customer experience, and cybersecurity.

What you’ll take away over coffee:

  • Fresh perspectives on improving visibility across suppliers, systems, documents, and operations before disruption turns into downtime or risk.
  • Practical ideas for modernizing with connected, governed information—not another disconnected system or manual workaround.
  • Actionable ways to use automation, AI-ready data, and trusted content to improve quality, compliance, service, and resilience.
  • A clearer view of how OpenText can connect the information, systems, experiences, and security controls manufacturers need to improve resilience today—and prepare for practical AI outcomes tomorrow

Register for the series, bring your coffee, and join the conversations that will help your organization move from reacting to disruption to building lasting advantage.

Coffee-break sessions

November 4th

Coffee Break 1: The Recall That Didn’t Have to Happen
In this quick conversation, see how traceability, supplier connectivity, and real-time information can help manufacturers respond with control, protect customer trust, and reduce the business impact of quality events.

December 2nd

Coffee Break 2: When Document Chaos Becomes a Manufacturing Risk
Take a short break to learn how engineering, quality, and operations teams can modernize document lifecycle control, protect institutional knowledge, and stay audit-ready as change accelerates.

January 6th

Coffee Break 3: When IT Stops the Line
Join us for a focused discussion on closing IT/OT blind spots, improving operational visibility, and preventing technology issues from becoming production downtime.

February 3rd

Coffee Break 4: Beyond the Product: The Manufacturing Experience Gap
Use your coffee break to explore how connected customer, employee, and operational experiences can improve service, strengthen loyalty, and create new opportunities for growth beyond the product itself.

March 3rd                       

Coffee Break 5: Under Siege: Protecting the Connected Factory
Wrap the series with a timely conversation on reducing cyber risk across IT, OT, suppliers, and intellectual property while keeping operations secure and resilient.
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