In 2024, manufacturing embraces “digital transformation” to tackle challenges. Mindsight discusses the key issues, including supply chain disruptions prompting domestic sourcing, skilled labor shortages requiring enhanced training, and integrating costly yet beneficial technologies like AI and IoT.
Category: Manufacturing
For much of the past millennium, manufacturing has remained siloed off from the hyper-collaborative technology impacting the rest of the world. That is no longer the case. Security concerns, increased reliance on the network for operations, and new technology developments in robotics, AI, and machine learning are reaching into the manufacturing industry. Read our blog to keep up-to-date on the trends in the manufacturing industry and find solutions to your toughest technology challenges.
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