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- While the electric vehicle (EV) race has dominated automotive manufacturing strategy and investment for over a decade, the smarter approach might have been to stick with what you know, play to your strengths or, ultimately, pick a lane. In this article, Yanesh Naidoo unpacks why those brands that have done just that are still on track during a time of global upheaval in the sector.
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- While the electric vehicle (EV) race has dominated automotive manufacturing strategy and investment for over a decade, the smarter approach might have been to stick with what you know, play to your strengths or, ultimately, pick a lane. In this article, Yanesh Naidoo unpacks why those brands that have done just that are still on track during a time of global upheaval in the sector.
- That is the big question our innovations director, Yanesh Naidoo, attempts to answer as he dives into some of the possibilities for modern manufacturing. In this article, he shares not just hypothetical, science-fiction scenarios but real solutions and actual use cases that are starting to change the way that production facilities operate in the age of AI.
- Digital transformation has, for most modern manufacturers, become a survival requirement. Yet despite investing in tablets, apps, and dashboards, many factories still struggle with the same inefficiencies they had before, writes Jeannie Serfontein.
- Plant managers and operations directors are under continuous pressure to drive production and build more products in more variants – faster, better and cheaper, writes our solutions engineer, Theuns Greyvenstein.
- According to Gartner, organisations using paper-based tasks management systems face a 30% higher risk of operational disruption and compliance failure. Whatever your industry, all teams have routine tasks – like maintenance, quality or safety checks – that support your daily operations, writes our solutions engineering manager, Jeannie Serfontein.
- For more than a century, control over oil production and supply has been a source of global power. Whoever controlled the taps also shaped international politics and economics. With the renewable energy revolution now underway, the world is seeing a significant power shift from oil to a new axis of energy.
