Practical Pathways to Industry 4.0

whitePaper | March 2, 2020

Today's manufacturers have had to pivot quickly to adapt to demands brought on by COVID-19. Business Intelligence and analytics have played a vital role in providing the most successful manufacturers with insights necessary to find new ways to: Improve product and service quality.Higher levels of quality

whitePaper | August 29, 2022

With the evolution of Industry 4.0 and the focus placed on lean manufacturing, the contemporary smart factory is expected to have made the transition to a fully connected, flexible, transparent, and maximally automated system. The realm of legacy industrial machines and industrial automation systems is becoming increasingly obsolete as companies are consolidating knowledge and insight and integrating legacy devices into novel IoT infrastructures.

whitePaper | March 3, 2023

The US military has long been at the forefront of innovation. What has made our military so formidable is our commitment to and investment in technological advancement. What’s more, innovations within our military have filtered out and impacted advancement in other fields from aviation to consumer electronics, which has helped build our economy to what it is today

whitePaper | August 30, 2022

Unexpected change costs in automotive manufacturing investment projects can quickly lead to spiraling costs and delays in production unless carefully managed. Any changes to production schedules and machinery must be meticulously planned. But without the correct information to base a plan, problems may multiply instead of being resolved.

whitePaper | December 12, 2022

Artificial intelligence (AI) can enable a new era in the digital transformation journey, offering tremendous potential to transform industries for greater efficiency, sustainability and workforce engagement. Even though the impact of AI applications in manufacturing and value chains is known, the full opportunity from their deployment is still to be uncovered due to a number of organizational and technical roadblocks. Recognizing this need, the World Economic Forum’s Platform for Shaping the Future of Advanced Manufacturing and Value Chains and Platform for Shaping the Future of Technology Governance: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, together with the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Türkiye, convened industry, technology and academic experts to shed light on these challenges and propose a step-by-step approach to overcome them.

whitePaper | July 8, 2022

In response to increasing demand by the investment community over the last dozen years, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published guidance calling for greater disclosure by public companies of the risks and costs of climate change on their businesses. The SEC’s efforts to promote greater transparency on corporate environmental impact culminated on March 21, 2022, with the promulgation of a proposed rule setting forth a sweeping array of new requirements for detailed disclosure of those risks and costs, with particular attention to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. If adopted, the rule would impose on publicly-held manufacturers significant obligations not only to make these disclosures but also to establish an extensive system of disclosure and accounting controls needed to ensure the periodic capture, assessment, and dissemination of a company’s exposure to climate-related risk and impact on the environment. Appropriate maintenance of any such system would require rigorous assessment of the adequacy of design and operating effectiveness of those controls.