Suraj Sriram

Digital Manufacturing Leader Kimberly-Clark

Suraj Sriram is Digital Manufacturing Leader at Kimberly-Clark, responsible for defining, scaling, and sustaining the company's MES strategy and digital manufacturing roadmap across its global sites. With a background in process engineering, systems integration, and operational excellence, he focuses on modernizing plant-floor technology, harmonizing OT/IT systems, and enabling data-driven decision making at scale. Suraj is also a CESMII-certified Smart Manufacturing Roadmap Professional, actively involved in leveraging industry benchmarks, maturity models, and best practices to accelerate smart factory adoption. His work centers on helping operations teams unlock sustainable improvements in performance, reliability, and workforce readiness.

CWM Summit Day One - October 14, 2026

2:25 PM Case Study: How Kimberly‑Clark Modernized MES at Scale

Kimberly Clark is modernizing MES across 75 plants through a global standardization program designed to unify processes, strengthen data foundations, and improve frontline adoption. In this case study, Suraj Sriram shares how his team accelerated deployment in North America, balanced standardization with site level needs, and built the cross functional engagement required to scale digital manufacturing systems effectively.

• Standardizing MES at scale through an 80/20 global template and a process family rollout model

• Sustaining performance with a dedicated MES specialist network, providing on site training, troubleshooting

• Digitizing frontline routines with mobile checklists and digital data capture to improve accuracy, compliance, and operator ownership

• Laying the groundwork for AI enabled operations by piloting operator support use cases that reduce dependency on stretched support teams and improve decision making

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