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- Conventional wisdom suggests that manufacturing innovation originates in highly developed economies and flows to developing ones. Because that’s where the cutting-edge technologies and specialist skills are seated, right?
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- Conventional wisdom suggests that manufacturing innovation originates in highly developed economies and flows to developing ones. Because that’s where the cutting-edge technologies and specialist skills are seated, right?
- When developing assembly systems for a host of customers who are all building the same product in wildly varying shapes and sizes, it can be tricky to find a solution that meets every requirement. And it can be tempting to give up in the face of seemingly insurmountable hurdles. But, writes Yanesh Naidoo , if you really listen to the customer problem, you can look beyond the risk and difficulties, and rise to meet the manufacturing opportunity that lies within.
- 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.
