SMMT

OCTOBER 19, 2023

We’re living in a globalised world and Britain’s commercial vehicle industry is no different, trading with every continent bar Antarctica – exporting six in 10 of all CVs produced this year, while imports of finished vehicles, parts and components from all round the world came to our shores.

Freight 45

Freight Supply Chain Automotive 45

AU Manufacturing

OCTOBER 16, 2022

This comes off the back of Monash’s historic result in the prestigious Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2023 announced last week, skyrocketing 13 places to rank 44th globally. We are delighted to be recognised for the high quality of our program and the professional success of our GEMBA graduates,” Professor Wilkie said.

Advanced manufacturing 76

Advanced manufacturing Manufacturing 76

MEM

JANUARY 26, 2023

Globalisation, the constant emergence of new players and new technologies means it is no longer possible for manufacturers to capitalise entirely on their products, they need to identify their differentiation. The manufacturing sector is facing increasing competition.

Industry 4.0 52

Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 Manufacturing 52

E&T

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Part of the reason for writing ‘Chip War’ was simply, “we don’t think about the chips, and yet they created the modern world”. Back in the world of semiconductors, Miller reminds me “it was not that long ago” we had the Micrologic chip with its two pairs of transistors. Seven decades later, the A16 chip has in the order of 16 billion.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Electronics Sourcing Manufacturing 52

Manufacturer's Monthly

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Like many countries, Australia’s trade links to the world were significantly disrupted at the height of COVID-19. But as Australia reconnects with the world, we are finding that the global trade system is rapidly changing. This new world demands a fundamental reappraisal of our trade strategy. Carbon pricing in trade.

Supply Chain 87

Supply Chain Value chain Form Pharmaceutical 87

E&T

OCTOBER 11, 2022

This worked in a smaller, pre-industrial world, or at least it worked well enough. In a world of cross-border trade and empirical scientific practice, it was no longer tenable. It was not all that long ago that a unit of grain could differ almost from one village to the next.

Consumer Goods 81

Consumer Goods 81

Manufacturer's Monthly

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Currently one of the top three PC control technology companies in the world, Beckhoff tells Manufacturers’ Monthly how that level of experience has helped the company navigate the latest COVID-19 crisis. In the Western world, capitalism rules the business and it’s typical for capitalism that you have cyclic business,” he said.

Automation 83

Automation Robotics Robotics Artificial Intelligence 83

E&T

JULY 10, 2023

However, even here some critics point out that while the basics of what we today consider plastic surgery were developed to aid gravely injured servicemen and women during two world wars last century, they eventually became available to those who could afford them as elective enhancements. But this rate of progress is raising some flags.

Electronics 111

Electronics Form Robotics Robotics 111

The Guardian Manufacturing

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Gita Gopinath says global economy’s fragmentation into power blocs risks wipeout of trillions of dollars in GDP The world economy is on the brink of a second cold war that could “annihilate” progress made since the collapse of the Soviet Union, a senior International Monetary Fund official has warned.

Manufacturing 96

Manufacturing 96

E&T

JUNE 16, 2023

First, Imec for mainstream CMOS, working closely with the only EUV lithography supplier in the world just 100km over the Belgium-Netherlands border. For everyone else, a peaceful future continues to rely on a predominantly globalised industry and the supply-chain headaches that implies.

Prototype  98

Prototype  Fit Supply Chain Electronics 98

E&T

MARCH 15, 2023

In the wake of the Chinese industrialisation and globalisation reforms introduced by Deng Xiaoping more than a decade earlier which resulted in manufacturing expanding rapidly, Grace saw it as a logical move. In the current climate, such a connection seems unthinkable. Hua Hong, which absorbed Grace, lay in sixth place with a share of 2.5

Sourcing 104

Sourcing Artificial Intelligence Electronics Supply Chain 104

E&T

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Well, if we didn’t exactly know where we were, we knew where we weren’t, because the way the world spun was based on the economics of neoliberalism. It was a long time coming, say our authors, who trace our brave new world to when the international stock exchanges became fully computerised. It was structured and obeyed rules.

Form 45

Form Manufacturing 45

E&T

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Using figures from the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics group, he argued at the start of August: “The 17 th market downturn has now well and truly started.”. Globalisation helped suppress prices. Change has spread across the industry since, according to Malcolm Penn, president of analyst firm Future Horizons.

Supply Chain 92

Supply Chain Electronics Benchmarking Sourcing 92