Lasting Centuries Requires Continuous Technology Adoption
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Multinational and small family manufacturers adopt new technology to endure over a century. Software and AI orchestrate manufacturers to operate faster and at greater scale.
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Emerging Stronger After 100 Issues
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Exponential Industry publishes its 100th newsletter. The sustainability and AutoTech megatrends drive the future of industry.
Funding the Autonomous Supply Chain
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Autonomous driving may have stumbled, but autonomy success grows in industrial operations. ISEE, Pickle Robots, Attabotics, and AMFG received big funding rounds for their successes so far.
Data Informs Sustainability and Functional Design
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Sustainability regulations and consumer demand force new product development and functional design. Universal models enable machine learning to thrive amid complexity in manufacturing and warehouse environments.
Reimagining Composite Materials from Lay-up to Additive
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Composite materials are challenging to manufacture. New additive, melt-blown, and automated lay-up processes enable better performance and lower cost. Circular economy startups, Solugen and AMP Robotics, raise huge rounds.
Achieving Progress in Autonomous Driving Tech
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Autonomous self-driving tech stalls on public streets, but progresses in the warehouse. The data backbone of digital twins and production planning with AI takes hold.
Origins of the Bionic Supply Chain
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A short history of the term ‘bionic supply chain’ in industry. Sustainability technology finds new ways to adopt into operations. Handcrafted lightsabers in time for Halloween.
Designing a Data Operating System for Your Manufacturing Business
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Data and AI is transforming how manufacturing business operate. A Data Operating System enables new product development workflows, increases collaboration, and ultimately helps companies get products to market faster.
Lights-out, Automated Production & Recovery with Machine Learning
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Every stage of a product’s lifecycle from design to production and material recovery is being transformed by machine learning and AI.
Mapped: Why Factory Tours Matter
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A world map of immersive factory tours near you! Generative design aided by machine learning enhances engineer productivity in automobile design and FPGA development.
Industrial SaaS to Become the Most Valuable Business Tool Ever
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NVIDIA’s GTC conference unveils new industrial metaverse offerings. Big Data and Cloud Computing drive adoption of Industrial SaaS platforms. 3D printing breaks the glass ceiling.
Energy Intensive Manufacturing Shapes Economies
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Germany and Taiwan face questions about energy supplies. The Food, Pulp and Paper, Basic Chemicals, Primary Metal, and Nonmetallic Minerals manufacturing sectors are the most energy intensive.
The Importance of Energy in Manufacturing and in Policy
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Sustainability and decarbonization transitions take time. So does training the next generation manufacturing workforce on data and AI. Acquisitions begin to ramp up across the Industry 4 ecosystem.
Preparing Manufacturing for a Variable Future
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Variable package sizes, geopolitical risks, and technologies require dynamic preparation and new paradigms to keep manufacturing and supply chains flowing.
Integrating Adaptive Computing Directly into the ROS Ecosystem
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The Robot Operating System (ROS) from Open Robotics enables adaptive computing with domain-specific architectures for AI and machine learning workloads.
Fastest Growing Industrial Companies Grow Over 500%
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Flexport and Seeq retain their incredible growth trajectories according to the 2022 Inc. 5000. Robots learn to take instruction in natural language and freight ships self-navigate for weeks with AI.
Breaking Down CB Insights’ Advanced Manufacturing 50 for 2022
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Exponential Industry’s thoughts on CB Insights’ Advanced Manufacturing 50. Data lakes drive MLOps into manufacturing processes. 3D printing companies continue to merge.
If You Are Not in the Next Space, You Are Out of Business
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Industry 4.0 technology adoption enables new business opportunities. 3D printers watch the manufacturing process and correct errors, while new algorithms improve operations planning and maintenance.
Rate of Tech Change Impacting Manufacturing Performance
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The rate of change of new technology has manufacturers struggling to keep up on integration while maintaining performance. 5G, Cobots, and AI are creating gaps between the haves and have nots.
Machine Lifetime Value to BOM Ratio
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The six metrics that matter for Hardware-as-a-Service businesses. Autonomously driving the line. Simplifying digital solutions to drive OT.