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Issue #24 - The Future of Manufacturing
digital manufacturing, virtual and augmented reality, 3-D printing, and digital supply chains
Sunil Gupta • Driving Digital Strategy: A Guide to Reimagining Your Business
In AI, the lion’s share of the most advanced GPUs essential to the latest models are designed by one company, the American firm NVIDIA. Most of its chips are manufactured by one company, TSMC, in Taiwan, the most advanced in just a single building, the world’s most sophisticated and expensive factory. TSMC’s machinery to make these chips comes from
... See moreMustafa Suleyman • The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
nearly half of companies with sales exceeding $10 billion were either actively pursuing or considering bringing factories back to the United States.
Martin Ford • Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
The pandemic gave companies the cover they needed to make huge, unprecedented strides in automation without risking a backlash. So they automated, and automated, and automated some more. Tyson Foods, the meat producer, brought in robotics experts to develop an automatic deboning system that could help it keep up with demand for chicken and other me... See more
Kevin Roose • Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
“Right now we think of manufacturing as happening in China. But as manufacturing costs sink because of robots, the costs of transportation become a far greater factor than the cost of production. Nearby will be cheap. So we’ll get this network of locally franchised factories, where most things will be made within five miles of where they are needed
... See moreKevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
When most people think of Chinese factories, they envision sweatshops with thousands of underpaid workers stitching together cheap shoes and teddy bears. These factories do still exist, but the Chinese manufacturing ecosystem has undergone a major technological upgrade. Today, the greatest advantage of manufacturing in China isn’t the cheap labor—c
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