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Once known as the pharmacy to the world, Germany now has its work cut out to supply enough medicines to its own citizens. The globalization-driven shift in drug making from Europe’s biggest economy to cheaper locations wasn’t too much of...

Pilot projects for autonomous shuttles abound. But technical limitations and hostility from labor unions may thwart large deployments. SHARAD AGARWAL HAS a prediction about driverless vehicles: “Autonomous public transportation is going to happen,” he says, “and it’s going to happen...

Scientists calculate that the top 200 meters of ocean alone contains up to 21 million metric tons of plastic. And that wasn’t even counting microfibers Scientists reckon that something like 99 percent of the plastic that should be out in...

The digital company in five steps: Which stages and processes will be gone through and what this means for your own digitalization strategy. • The five levels of maturity help to determine where your company wants to be at the...

People create their own digital twin – Gartner makes these and other predictions in his Hype Cycle 2020. Read about the technologies that will change society and the economy. Corona has also shaped the start of the new decade in...

Most supply chain management models have been built to respond to data – what happened in the past. But in today’s dynamic environment a more predictive approach is needed, one that gives supply chains the ability to sense and respond...

The market research institute Gartner expects significant changes in supply chain management within five years. Eight trends are already emerging. By 2023, at least every second global player will use artificial intelligence (AI), advanced analytics and technologies related to the...

Google’s artificial intelligence unit took a giant step to predict the structure of proteins, potentially decoding a problem that has been described as akin to mapping the genome. DeepMind Technologies Ltd.’s AlphaFold reached the threshold for “solving” the problem at...

Automation. The word itself recalls images of a time ahead: of flying cars, of Jetsons, of robots designed to serve, and generally futuristic living. Though flying cars have yet to grace the skies, the futuristic living we seek has already...

In the first wave of the pandemic, employees in the manufacturing industry were among the hardest hit. Many manufacturers across the country saw huge clusters break out at plants and factories – including one incident at Tyson where 95% of...