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As businesses in every industry reorient their supply chains to boost resilience, the strategic ways the automotive sector has responded to recent supply chain shocks hold lessons for all companies. As the frequency and magnitude of supply chain disruptions continue...

The Internet of Things, the cloud and artificial intelligence are commonly referenced industrial digital transformation technologies. Thanks to these groundbreaking advances, managerial priorities like preventive maintenance, production optimization, defective rates reduction, energy savings and carbon reduction are being achieved. Supporting...

Negotiators at the annual UN climate conference managed to eke out some plans for action. Now the challenge is turning dreams into reality. THINGS DIDN’T LOOK particularly good at the start of COP27. The word on everyone’s lips was “trust”—specifically,...

Here are the seven trends shaping digital transformation in 2023. Adapting to changing customer needs quickly and driving more efficient growth will be big agenda items for CXOs going into 2023, according to the latest research from MuleSoft. In addition,...

Inventory glut has many businesses turning their attention to innovation. Partnering with vendors can make the process easier. Widespread inventory glut has left many businesses drowning in outdated products, pushing many to refocus their efforts on innovation to keep their...

Composable manufacturing is an approach that uses a virtual tool to assemble – or compose – modular packages of pre-programmed processes into new workflows on a screen. Deploying AI, machine learning and other cutting-edge technologies, composable manufacturing gives companies to...

Climate change threatens our planet and communities around the world. To avoid the worst of its impacts, we must reach net zero by 2050. Our approach to everything from the manufacture of plastics to electronics must consider product end-of-life and...

Digital replicas of physical assets, processes and systems, Digital Twins are increasingly acknowledged as a gateway to better decision-making securing greater efficiencies. Likely benefits include improved performance, faster processes, the capacity to predict and pre-empt maintenance issues, plus better quality-control...

Scientists from the MIT Center for Information Systems Research found companies that have executed a digital transformation have significantly higher financial performance — with average revenue growth of 17.3 percentage points and net margins of 14.0 percentage points above industry...

Sustainability has long been an integral part of the economic and social debate. Both consumers and other stakeholders are calling for a stronger commitment to the circular economy and to sustainable raw material and recycling concepts. The regulatory framework worldwide...