Manuel Chareyre holds an M.Sc degree in Industrial Computer Science, from the Institute of Technology of Grenoble. He has 15 years of professional experience in automation, real time supervision and manufacturing execution systems for aluminium production. Successively business analyst, process control expert and project manager, in 2002 he became the product manager of the Rio Tinto MES for aluminium production sites. Manuel is now in charge of the management of the process control and MES projects deliveries within Rio Tinto Aluminium and has a special mandate on digital manufacturing / 4.0 industry concepts.