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Industry Outlook: Manufacturing Trends

Trinity Logistics

Many of today’s manufacturing trends are in line with the industry’s goals to improve processes, create more efficiency, and meet consumer demand. The manufacturing industry has seen challenges, from changes in the way people work to the rapid growth in demand, with many of these challenges accelerated by the recent covid-19 pandemic.

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The smart factory Part 1: Digitization, digitalization and digital

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

The digital transformation of the operations and processes of factories and supply chains is based upon digitization of carefully selected machines and digitalization of the related business processes. So here goes – read on for a greater understanding of these concepts and the role they play in your journey to a smart factory.

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The future of manufacturing: trends and innovation for growth

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

” Currently, much of the industrial world is like the consumer world was before cell phones become “smart”. There are companies in every industry that are already embracing the reality of Industry 4.0 There are companies in every industry that are already embracing the reality of Industry 4.0

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The “First Five” Industrial Manufacturing Trends of 2017

GlobalTranz

Current industrial manufacturing trends show the new administration is pushing for reshoring among the nation’s biggest manufacturers, and new technologies are revolutionizing how companies respond to growing skepticism and scrutiny by the public and government oversight as well. This simple fact is revolutionizing factory floors.

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AI and the Future of Supply Chain with Yossi Sheffi

The Logistics of Logistics

Professor Sheffi is the author of a 1985 textbook on transportation networks and eight management books, dealing with supply chain resilience, sustainability, industrial clustering, and other business management issues. The 5 th Industrial Revolution: Why human and A.I. Following the journey of the t-shirt from factory to retailer.

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4 Key Trends to Watch in Smart Manufacturing and Supply Chain

GlobalTranz

Industrial IoT and big data are converging to enable demand-driven 'smart supply chains.' I remember reading an MIT paper on manufacturing technology trends a couple of years ago. The powdered material availability and suitability in a variety of industrial applications is still evolving.

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COVID Has Fundamentally Changed the Profession of Supply Chain Management

Logistics Viewpoints

It is common for pundits to look ahead and predict how an industry or profession will change. The trend toward automation has never gone away. But the difficulty in finding workers has becoming a huge challenge at many factories and warehouses. COVID was a Fukushima category event that applied to all industries.