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The digitalization of manufacturing can generate significant benefits - but to make the most of the opportunities it presents, businesses need to empower their people.
With lower environmental impact and reduced supply chains, digital manufacturing – including 3D printing – is a progressive force for good.
‘Additive manufacturing’ needs to embrace change, such as sustainability and materials flexibility, if it’s going to fulfil its true potential for industry.
It's how people choose to use new technologies that will decide how the production jobs of the future evolve.
Manufacturing fuelled the economic miracles of Taiwan, Korea and Singapore. Here's how it could turn India into a global powerhouse for the robot age.
Empowering machine operators with AI analytics will help reduce waste and emissions, and increase profitability.
Kuhn et al. (2018) recently explored the importance of asset prices for wealth inequality by reconstructing income and wealth survey data. They were able to show that the bottom 50% of in...
The World Economic Forum, in collaboration with McKinsey, has undertaken a global search and assessment for the most advanced sub-section of companies who are actively deploying 4IR techn...
Instead of oil feedstock, as in conventional manufacturing, plastic can be made from fermentation, rather like brewing beer. Bio-based latex car tyres can be made from dandelions and carp...
A "soft robot" that can grasp items with the same dexterity as the human hand could revolutionize automation and help us to feed the world. Here's how.
And will it hold them back?
The US still produces most of the world's cutting-edge research – but not so many of its cutting-edge products. It needs to relearn the art of translating innovative ideas into reality.
The African Continental Free Trade Area could create $6.7 trillion of consumer and business spending.
"The best designs will be sent around the world digitally and printed on demand, circumventing the global tariffs that have taxed production since the last industrial revolution."
In this week’s episode of “A Glimpse into the Future": how new technologies will affect global supply chains.
