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How can the manufacturing industry prepare for the future and train its employees? What have become fundamental ‘must-have’ skills? Success in the manufacturing industry requires embracing all aspects of digital innovation. In this issue, we explore the potential answers to these questions.
Featured
Fast adaptation of new competencies
Knowledge gaps created by the rapid progress in technology trends are felt at all levels of society. The workforce on a global scale is faced with a challenge to develop new competencies faster than ever before, to be able to multitask and focus on problem-solving.
5G: Future Factory Wireless Communication
5G has enormous potential to disrupt industrial communication and data handling with extreme speed and near-instant response times. However, the implementation of the mobile communication technology is not merely setting up some 5G antennas in a factory environment.
Lessons Learned
Doing things differently
A case study of testing materials with low uniform elongation.
Grow your business by developing your workforce
Few sectors of the global economy embody the fourth industrial revolution’s ideals and challenges more than manufacturing. HR teams face rising pressure to develop their workforces while facing often enormous financial and employment challenges.
Maximise your marketing potential
Digital marketing is constantly evolving, making continuous learning extremely important. Learn how to maximise your marketing potential with continous learning.
Spotlight
Set sail to AI with the AI Navigator ©
Artificial intelligence (AI) is on everyone’s lips. Countless companies are already trying their hand at it. How can these companies benefit from the AI Navigator?
Fraunhofer’s perspective on advanced training
There is also no doubt that a highly trained team provides superior performance in comparison to a team with haphazard training, or worse yet, no training at all. So why do so many companies baulk at the idea of developing a comprehensive, ongoing and sustainable training strategy?
AMC NU
Advanced Manufacturing Program
Find out what existing and potential projects are being explored by FIP-AM@UT.
Technology & Innovation
You can’t buy innovation off the shelf
For a sheet metal working supplier like Suplacon, the digital agenda is a top priority. Equipped with modern and reliable machinery and a well-functioning ERP system, attention is now focused on a reliable planning system and shorter lead times.
Cybersecurity: A way to improve business continuity in digital transformation
Cybersecurity is not a goal, nor will it ever be. Business continuity, however, is. Accordingly, cybersecurity is a topic that should be addressed every once in a while. Cybersecurity – digital safety & security – is a precondition for safely using the opportunities digital transformation offers.
Towards a future proof factory
As manufacturers, we need to be careful about the plans and changes we make in our new and existing factories today, so that we can extract value and avoid obsolescence in the future.
Maintenance: The way forward
The way we approach maintenance is changing due to the emergence and diffusion of digitalised technology and smart sensors.
Qing: Putting digital twins to work
In this article, we get together with engineering firm QING to discover their industry leading approach to driving the Industry 4.0 revolution.
The learning curve effect on manufacturing
Remarkable increases in productivity are typically realized as organizations gain experience in production. A variation is observed between those who learn and those who show little or no learning.
Sustainability
The power of generative design
Generative Design is a design tool that enables the exploration of multiple suggested design solutions to an engineering problem. By using unprecedented cloud computing power, Generative Design is able to produce design variations that have not been thought of or were simply not possible to materialise.
Moving Forward
Moving Forward with FEST
Three years ago, an idea of having a team of students connected to the Fraunhofer Project Center at the University of Twente (FPC@UT) came to live. Find out what FEST is doing.