Manufacturing Technologies

Robotics - The US automotive industry installed 17,500 robots in 2016, with the number of jobs in the sector rising by 260,600 during the same period – image courtesy of IFR.

People & Skills

Education key to reap benefits of robotics

Additive Manufacturing - Inspecting the form of a part during build

Innovation

Setting sail for a new era of additive manufacturing

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Digital Transformation

Digital transformation: overcoming the pain points

Bionic Robot - The movements of the BionicCobot can be finely regulated to be either powerful and dynamic, or delicate and yielding - image courtesy of Festo.

Automation

New bionic robot concepts inspired by nature

One of the areas AI-equipped automation controllers can help improve is predictive maintenance, vital in raising productivity – image courtesy of Omron Corporation.

Digital Transformation

Omron to release ground-breaking AI-equipped controller

IoT

More than 75% say they plan on tying machine-to-people devices , - image courtesy of HSO.

Automation

IIoT: get ready for ‘robolution’

The open ecosystem aims to make autonomous driving more accessible to the public, and accelerate the overall pace of innovation – image courtesy of Baidu.

Digital Transformation

Autonomous driving to go open source

Procurement 4IR Training Cloud Tech Digital Data Factory Workforce image

Digital Transformation

Predictive maintenance to be worth $4.9bn by 2021

IoT

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Finance

Businesses must be willing to invest in efficiency

Engineer undergoing training as part of his education - UK education system

Smart Factory

The opportunities and benefits of 4IR

Stock Image - Servers Technology Virtualisation Data Server Computer IT - image courtesy of Pixabay.

Digital Transformation

Virtualisation: what is it?