Manufacturers: Time for 3D Printing, AI, Digital Twins, Hyper-Automation
The buzz: “Machines will be capable in 20 years of doing any work a man can do” (1965, Dr. Herbert Simon). The manufacturing world is seeing innovation-driven trends and challenges across the...
View ArticleAerospace and Defense Manufacturing: What's Shaping the Future?
The buzz: “Both optimists and pessimists contribute to the society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute (G.B. Shaw) The aerospace and defense industry (A&D) has been at...
View Article3D Printing: Changing the Game in the Chemical Industry
The buzz: “Basically any material you can squeeze, melt or generate into a powder, you can print.” (HLipson) When Chuck Hull developed stereolithography, a manufacturing method aka3D printing, he...
View ArticleManufacturing Innovations: The Value of Breakthroughs?
The buzz: “Once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road” (Stewart Brand). The Industrial Machinery and Component (IM&C) sector is seeing new...
View ArticleThe Outcome-based Economy and the Future of Manufacturing
The buzz: “Imagine if your washing machine itself was the diagnostician monitoring machine behavior and sending alerts … ahead of failures… scheduling a service call and ordering the service parts”...
View ArticleChemical Industry Mergers, Acquisitions, Divestitures: Transformational Growth
The buzz: “...2017 M&A activity will be focused around innovation and digitization.” (Deloitte) Historically fragmented portfolios, pressure from activists, and near-flat global growth predictions...
View ArticleMass Digitalization in Industrial Manufacturing: What's Next?
The buzz: “Technology trends coupled with consumers’ increasing power to demand personalized products are changing the face of manufacturing” (Kevin O’Marah, industryweek.com, 01/14/15). “Software is...
View ArticleSoftware Is Everywhere: Show Us the Money!
The buzz: “Many traditional vendors still see themselves as hardware providers, first and foremost, even though the most valuable component of their offering is the embedded software driving it.”...
View ArticleMachine Learning: Disruptive Potential for the Chemical Industry
The buzz: “Working alone, human researchers are incapable of processing the required amount of data… to achieve the requisite innovations fast enough – particularly given the data overload facing...
View ArticleThe Future of Manufacturing: Industry 4.0 Synergy and the Workforce
The buzz: “The Fourth Industrial Revolution is still in its nascent state. But with the swift pace of change and disruption to business and society, the time to join in is now” (Gary Coleman, Deloitte...
View ArticleEncore: Mass Digitalization in Industrial Manufacturing: What's Next?
The buzz: “Technology trends coupled with consumers’ increasing power to demand personalized products are changing the face of manufacturing” (Kevin O’Marah, industryweek.com, 01/14/15). “Software is...
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