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Manufacturing In the Middle: Growth, Opportunity and New Challenges

Cisco Smart Manufacturing

This group is also seeing substantial growth in both revenue and employment while taking some very innovative and agile approaches to smart manufacturing. Additive manufacturing and rapid prototyping. National Center for the Middle Market. These included: Cybersecurity. New materials/composites.

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Realizing Industry 4.0

Cisco Smart Manufacturing

Additive Manufacturing (or 3D Printing) to perform rapid prototyping, complex part manufacturing, and spare part creation. Industry 4.0, Co-Bots designed to physically interact with humans in a shared workspace in order to supplement workloads.