Zebra Technologies Recognized as a 2022 Manufacturing Leadership Council Awards Winner

Company honored for driving the adoption of Industry 4.0 with its manufacturing suppliers globally

LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill. – April 4, 2022 – Zebra Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: ZBRA), an innovator at the front line of business with solutions and partners that deliver a performance edge, today announced it has been recognized as a winner in the 2022 Manufacturing Leadership Council Awards for its outstanding achievement in the category of Enterprise Integration and Technology. Zebra was honored for leading the adoption of Industry 4.0 with its manufacturing suppliers globally. Industry 4.0, also known as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, aims to create a smart and agile value chain operation from the start of the product concept to the end of its life.

The Zebra Supply Chain Technical Operations team embarked on being an early adopter of Industry 4.0 to improve competitiveness and rapid response to customers and markets, spearheading a futuristic, digitized vision of manufacturing to drive efficiency. Through the deployment of innovative manufacturing process solutions, increased real-time data capture, visibility, reporting, and predictive and prescriptive analytics, Zebra helps enable its manufacturing suppliers to increase the efficiency of their operations by being more automated, digitally connected, intelligent, flexible and sustainable.

Zebra also helps manufacturers of all sizes around the world advance their adoption of Industry 4.0 within their own production and distribution networks. Some of Zebra’s solutions driving this advancement include machine vision and fixed industrial scanning, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), RFID, real-time locationing, as well as temperature monitoring and sensing among many others.

“Zebra Technologies is honored to receive the prestigious Manufacturing Leadership Council Awards for Enterprise Integration and Technology,” said Ibikunle Ibitayo, Vice President of Quality, Technical & Product Operations, Zebra Technologies. “We are proud of the efforts of our collective team who built our Industry 4.0 automation and digitization framework and designed it for future success to enable more cross-collaboration efforts to reduce time-to-market and increase operational visibility.”

Winners in the Enterprise Integration and Technology category demonstrate innovative corporate IT and communications strategies and systems, embracing approaches such as edge/cloud computing, advanced enterprise software applications and mobility platforms. Winning projects enable agile business processes manufacturers can use to better manage and deliver products and services. They also serve as examples of how transformative technologies can contribute to the development of the manufacturing industry in the future.  

Zebra Technologies will be recognized at the Manufacturing Leadership Awards Gala on June 29, 2022 at the JW Marriott in Marco Island, Florida. The gala is the closing event for Rethink: The Manufacturing Leadership Council Summit. Details about the awards are available here.  

KEY TAKEAWAYS

  • Zebra Technologies was recognized as a 2022 Manufacturing Leadership Council Award winner for excellence in Enterprise Integration and Technology.
  • By being an early adopter of Industry 4.0, Zebra enables its manufacturing suppliers to increase the efficiency of their operations by being automated, digitally connected, intelligent, flexible and sustainable.
  • Zebra also helps manufacturers advance their adoption of Industry 4.0 within their own production and distribution networks with solutions such as machine vision, fixed industrial scanning, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), RFID, real-time locationing as well as temperature  monitoring and sensing among many others.
  • The Manufacturing Leadership Awards Gala will take place on June 29, 2022, at the JW Marriott in Marco Island, Florida.


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ABOUT ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES

Zebra (NASDAQ: ZBRA) empowers organizations to thrive in the on-demand economy by making every front-line worker and asset at the edge visible, connected and fully optimized. With an ecosystem of more than 10,000 partners across more than 100 countries, Zebra serves customers of all sizes – including 94% of the Fortune 100 – with an award-winning portfolio of hardware, software, services and solutions that digitize and automate workflows. Supply chains are more dynamic, customers and patients are better served, and workers are more engaged when they utilize Zebra innovations that help them sense, analyze and act in real time. Zebra recently expanded its industrial automation portfolio with its Fetch Robotics acquisition and increased its machine vision and AI software capabilities with the acquisitions of Adaptive Vision and antuit.ai. Zebra is #25 on Newsweek’s inaugural list of America’s 100 Most Loved Workplaces and #79 on Forbes’ list of America’s 500 Best Midsize Employers. Learn more at www.zebra.com or sign up for news alerts. Follow Zebra’s Your Edge blog, LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook, and check out our Story Hub: Zebra Perspectives.

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Peter Czyryca
Zebra Technologies
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Kasia Fahmy
Zebra Technologies
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k.fahmy@zebra.com

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