In recent years, the manufacturing world has become dominated by two superpowers, each battling for prime position on the world stage. Dubbed by the media as the “US-China trade wars,” this fierce battle, cannot have escaped the notice of manufacturers across the globe.
With all the hype around digitization, Industry 4.0, and how technology is making our lives easier in so many ways, it can actually be rather confusing and overwhelming to sort
If you use your overall equipment efficiency (OEE) as a way to measure your factory’s performance, you may always be on the lookout for tried and tested ways you can
The pace of technological change in manufacturing has ramped up a notch or several in recent years. Whereas in the past, you might have considered upgrading your computers and tech systems every ten to fifteen years (or even longer) it now seems as if software becomes obsolete within years rather than decades.
As a management-level executive at a manufacturing company, are you in touch with what is happening on the factory floor on a regular basis? Or, do you focus on the
These days, two superpowers are battling for supremacy on the world manufacturing stage – the US and China. China’s manufacturing capacity has been growing steadily in the twenty-first century and with GDP of $13.2 trillion in 2018 it has become a powerful force on the world stage.
