WEDRONE Case Study with Rui Baptista | Connected Shopfloor Summit 2025

In this presentation, Rui Baptista, CEO of WEDRONE, details the company's strategic journey to modernize industrial operations and move away from manual processes.

The session focuses on the transition from paper-based management to a fully connected digital ecosystem dedicated to producing complex aluminum components for automotive industry leaders such as Porsche, Bentley and Volkswagen.

Throughout the video, Baptista explores the five-step roadmap WEDRONE utilized to implement digitalization, starting from the identification of core goals like increasing productivity and reducing costs to the detailed mapping of melting, casting, and machining sectors.

The presentation also covers the successful integration between the company's ERP system and the proGrow platform, enabling the automation of tasks such as label printing and ensuring data flows transparently across all levels of the organization, from shopfloor tablets to mobile devices for management.

Rui concludes the presentation with a vision of utilizing collected data to generate insights for increasingly precise and proactive quality control and maintenance.