Emerging trends in global advanced manufacturing

June 1, 2017

Governments around the world are increasingly putting emphasis on the interplay between manufacturing, innovation and economic growth. The 20th-century model where technological innovation was driven by a small number of countries with a handful of research universities and dominant R&D-intensive corporations is rapidly changing.

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The Upcoming digital transformation of the print and media industry towards, printing industry 4.0 is leading to an even closer integration of industry players with their customer, suppliers and partners. The distrubution of task between the parties involved has been evolving in some areas, providing an increasing number of opportunities to add value to products and services.

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Industry 4.0 Business Model Dilemma for OEMs

whitePaper | September 14, 2023

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The Warehouse of the Future

whitePaper | November 17, 2022

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whitePaper | October 10, 2022

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whitePaper | October 1, 2021

Digitalization is changing how humans live and behave in many ways. It has a huge impact on almost all aspects of society. Just look at manufacturing. Factories have used digital applications for decades, but the impact of a new technological paradigm founded on the Industrial Internet of Things, or IIoT, and realized in the Industry 4.0 concept, is driving the world of manufacturing into a completely different playing field.

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Can Industry 4.0 Solve Downtime Issues?

whitePaper | October 3, 2022

If yours is like most businesses today, you run a tight ship. When you see problems on your production line, you do not wait to solve them, and the result is a lean operation that does not let issues linger or snowball into larger problems. But it is impossible to fix what you cannot see or track. While Industry 4.0 is often a buzzword, Watlow® is already providing solutions that are helping manufacturers proactively forecast future issues and reduce costs. Given that the average cost of an hour of downtime in manufacturing was $532,000 in 2021, there is so much opportunity for businesses to save money with Industry 4.0.

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Allied Bakeries

Allied Bakeries is home to Kingsmill, a top ten UK grocery brand, as well as a number of other well known household brands such as Burgen, Allinson and Sunblest. We operate in 19 sites across UK and Ireland with over 4,500 people ensuring that we deliver our great products to a broad range of customers, day in day out to every postcode in the UK!

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