Momentum Forward Day 2026: Looking back

Whitepapers

6 October 2026

On 17 September, 87 people from 44 companies spent their Thursday with us at the Evoluon in Eindhoven. Philips built it in 1966 as a monument to the future. Sixty years on it is still standing, and that was the point of the day: architecture outlasts whatever sits inside it.

Keynotes, customer stories, three breakout rooms and a lot of conversations in between. For everyone who could not be there, we bundled the day into one white paper. For everyone who was, here are the moments worth keeping.

The white paper: The Next Foundation

What we shared and what we heard back, in one document. From the four forces every plant is already absorbing to the architecture behind Momentum's next foundation, customer journeys from Q8 Oils and Vitablend, the breakout takeaways and what Release 18.2 brings today.

Everything we covered that day

Four forces, one direction.
Scarce people, cost pressure, volatile supply chains and AI. Not predictions, they are already on the floor.
Architecture is the story.
One standard box rewired global trade in 1956. Lode Blomme applies the same idea to the factory event bus.
Proof from the plant floor.
Q8 Oils moved from Excel to one backbone. At Vitablend, the process now enforces quality instead of recording it.
Inside the three breakouts.
APS planning across areas, WCS where one event moved four systems in time and an honest test of AI versus MES.
AI at the source of waste.
Polysense cuts peeling waste at a Belgian fries producer, measuring every potato with no operator in the loop.
Release 18.2, live in October.
Smarter planning, site and area OEE for the floor and PostgreSQL support. What you can use now, not someday.