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4 Key Trends to Watch in Smart Manufacturing and Supply Chain

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Industrial IoT and big data are converging to enable demand-driven 'smart supply chains.' According to industry standard ASTM F2792-10 , AM is defined as, "The process of joining materials to make objects from 3D model data, usually layer upon layer, as opposed to subtractive manufacturing technologies.".

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5 More Manufacturing Technologies to Impact the Industry in 2016

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By autonomously collecting KPIs on exponential volumes of data, the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning will dramatically drive manufacturing. Over the past two decades, manufacturers and scientists have invented new alloys and new materials to use. This is a 500 percent growth rate.