Manufacturing is getting a lot more attention in the news recently. While globalization has pushed the availability of goods around the world and lowered their cost in significant ways over these past ...

Eighty-six percent of manufacturing leaders believe the technologies they adopt today will be the main driver of competitiveness in the next five years. Yet, for many manufacturing leaders, navigating ...

The manufacturing world is going through one of its biggest shifts in decades. Factories that once depended heavily on manual ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

Manufacturing rarely announces its reinventions dramatically. Change arrives instead through pressure on energy, labor, and supply chains. Over the past year, those pressures have converged to drive a ...

“Do you know what really impresses me? I saw a robot pick up an egg!’’ exclaimed Roger Smith, chairman of General Motors, in 1985. The American carmaker, which two decades earlier had been the first ...

The quest to shape our understanding of AI is occurring at the same time that we’re experimenting with its potential applications, from designing through integration of products and processes.

This is Part 3 in our Planet Money newsletter series on manufacturing in America. Part 1 asked why Americans aren't filling the manufacturing jobs that are already here. Part 2 dived deep into ...

Xiaomi's smart factory in Changping, Beijing, stands at the forefront of a global manufacturing shift. This 96,900 square-yard facility uses advanced robotics and AI to operate without any human ...