Chad Edmonds is the Global Leader for Operational Technology at Sealed Air Corporation, where he leads the strategy and development of the company’s global OT data and analytics platforms. With over 34 years of experience in industrial automation, manufacturing systems, and operational data architecture, Chad has helped shape how Sealed Air captures, visualizes, and analyzes plant-floor data.
He implemented his first MES in 1998 for Sealed Air’s Medical Products Division and has since worked extensively in historians, industrial visualization, and advanced analytics for the rest of Sealed Air’s global network. Today, his work focuses on leveraging machine learning and the OT platform to transform plant floor data into actionable insights that improve manufacturing performance, reliability, and decision-making.