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Comment: Why technological transformation matters in manufacturing

E&T

The nature of the factory floor and supply chains continues to evolve, hailing a new era of efficiency and agility driven by automation, data analytics, and interconnected systems. Innovative technologies have the potential to revolutionise every aspect of the value chain.

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Four Major Trends You’ll Experience at FABTECH 2022

Fabricating & Metal Work

Here’s more on the latest trends in manufacturing and where you can find them at FABTECH 2022: Trend 1: 3D/Additive Manufacturing. Additive Manufacturing/3D printing has been one of the fastest-growing technologies of the 21st century and the global market size is expected to continue to grow.

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2023 Manufacturing Outlook

ATS

That component of the manufacturing industry outlook is derived from several underlying — and in some cases, ongoing — industry and macroeconomic factors that may threaten sustained growth in the near term. The following aspects of supply chain management have been identified as potential strategies to help improve these areas.

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A legacy of innovative manufacturing

Manufacturer's Monthly

By purposefully investing $34 million of Commonwealth and other funding in 71 research and development (R&D) projects, IMCRC has helped to catalyse more than $230 million investment in smart manufacturing research and innovation. IMCRC’s beginnings. We lost the last big industry that did this when we lost car production.

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5G’s role in the adoption of enterprise augmented reality

Control Engineering

To smart manufacturing enterprises, the ratio is 1 to every 4. This gap reflects a reality that enterprises, especially those in the smart manufacturing segment, have not yet advanced in their trials to combine big data sets and AR. For example, for every enterprise who is testing digital twin with AR, there are 3.7

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Manufacturing in America 2023: Digitalization, automation, sustainability, productivity

Control Engineering

Benefits of digital transformation can include increased energy efficiency and sustainability, process visibility, quality, speed to market, lower costs, easier workflow and supply chain integration, improved safety and other advantages. Digitalization helps manufacturers rethink what they make, how and why. Courtesy: Mark T.