Factory training

AI and Digital Transformation for Manufacturing Executives

AI agents, China best practice, pain points, success cases, and a roadmap · Rwanda

  • Executives and managers
  • Day 1 (4 sessions, 1 hour each)
  • Day 2 (2 sessions, 1 hour each)
  • $300 per person · minimum 5

Instructor

Dr. Leo, instructor

Dr. Leo

Chairman and CTO, Shanghai SBOS AI Technology

Factory executives and managers come for Dr. Leo. He has spent his career inside large enterprise accounts, and he founded SBOS to work on the same operating decisions. Bachelor of Information Engineering. Master of Computer Technology Application. PhD in Management Science. More than six years at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, previously HP Inc. He has led more than 50 digital transformation and ERP projects across China for more than a decade, including work for BMW, Volkswagen, and Bank of East Asia.

Six sessions

Day 1 is four sessions. Day 2 is two sessions. Each session is one hour.

  1. Day 1·01

    AI and AI agents

    What is AI

    • Not the machines on the floor

    AI agents

    • LLM
    • Context
    • Tools
    • Skills
    • MCP

    OpenClaw

    • Sits outside the books

    Hermes

    • Sits outside the books

    Duukaa

    • Holds the orders and the stock
  2. Day 1·02

    Digital transformation in manufacturing

    What changes

    • One record
    • One owner

    The record

    • RFQ
    • Quote
    • Order
    • Invoice
    • Payment

    What does not change

    • A person sets the price
    • A person sets the date
  3. Day 1·03

    Factory processes — China best practice transfer

    What is handed over

    • The operating method
    • Used on this factory's orders

    RFQ to account received

    • Can we make it
    • Is there capacity
    • Does the date fit
    • The agent drafts the quote
    • The owner approves the price
    • The owner approves the date
    • Payment applied to the invoice

    RFQ to account paid

    • Compare price
    • Compare lead time
    • Compare quality
    • Compare terms
    • The owner chooses the supplier
    • Purchase order
    • Goods receipt
    • Supplier invoice
    • Match the three before paying

    Production order to finished goods

    • The agent flags missing material
    • The owner releases the job
    • Stock in the quantity that passed
  4. Day 1·04

    Factory operational pain points

    On each process

    • Where it breaks
    • How often
    • Who handles it
    • What one miss costs

    Rank

    • Up to three pains
  5. Day 2·05

    DX success cases and demo

    Success cases

    • A drafted quote
    • A person approves the price
    • A mismatched invoice waits

    Demo

    • Walk yesterday’s pains
  6. Day 2·06

    DX roadmap and general discussion

    Roadmap

    • The pain that matters first
    • Who owns it today
    • What better means in a month

    Discussion

    • Open questions
    • What a person still decides

What to send before day 1

  • At least five people for all six sessions. Executives and managers. Include sales, purchasing, production, and finance if those roles exist.
  • One recent customer RFQ, with the customer name removed, and who approved the price and the date.
  • One recent supplier purchase: the quotes compared, who chose the supplier, and whether the invoice matched the receipt.
  • One recent production order: whether material was short, who released the job, and whether finished goods were stocked in.

What you leave with

  • A shared picture of the three processes and the three decisions that stay with a person.
  • A short roadmap: the pains they rank, and the one that matters first.
  • Their remaining questions, answered or written down.

One price

The course is $300 per person, with a minimum of five. The fee is for the six hours on this page.

  • Six one-hour sessions over two days
  • Executives and managers of one company, at least five
  • A demo of the pains named in the room

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