Making crucial business decisions based on data, having advance warnings of mechanical failures, and advancing 3D printing implementation will develop in the next year of manufacturing, an article in Information Age says.
The entire industry is on the brink of an upheaval parallel to the industrial revolutions it has experienced throughout history – those that centered around technologies like steam-powered machinery and the linear assembly machine.
The pending industrial revolution will be underpinned by a range of technologies that have already begun to pervade their way across the sector, such as 3D printing and artificial intelligence, and will continue to do so in 2018.
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