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Fighting COVID-19 With Analytics
Data analytics are being employed at the heart of the battle against COVID-19. Tracing the outbreak and modeling data to predict outcomes is critical in this crisis. Businesses and governments around the world are starting to apply a wide range of advanced analytics to that data to address the unprecedented health, economic, and social impacts.
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Teaching Analog Systems Digital Tricks
Manufacturing Leadership Council members recently took a virtual tour around MxD’s Innovation Center in Chicago to learn how to integrate digital manufacturing technologies using existing legacy equipment in ways that can help increase agility without breaking the bank or getting buried in a data landslide.
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NAM Webinar Tackles Vaccine Questions
As COVID-19 vaccines such as those from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna begin to become available, manufacturers have a lot of questions about vaccination in relation to their workforces. To provide as many answers as possible at this point in the vaccination journey, the National Association of Manufacturers and its Manufacturing Leadership Council held an informational webinar with expert insights from the NAM, Whirlpool, law firm Littler, and the MLC.
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Three Steps Toward Manufacturing Resiliency
To stay in business and remain competitive, manufacturers must anticipate and respond to both foreseen and unforeseen changes. What’s the key to this responsiveness? Manufacturing resiliency. And the driver behind this resiliency is data-driven production execution supported by digital technologies.
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COVID-19: Lessons from F1 Racing for Workplace Safety
It’s time for the industry to use the opportunity presented by the COVID crisis to build the safe, agile, and resilient workplaces it will need for the future.
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Putting Intelligence Back into AI
Today’s version of artificial intelligence is at risk of undercutting the power of knowledge.To free this important technology, here are 10 recommendations that will enable AI in manufacturing operations to prosper.
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The Shape of Things to Come
The future state of manufacturing is envisioned as a highly efficient, high-tech engine of mass customization. But competitive advantage will flow only to those companies that master the use of advanced technologies and orchestrate change well.
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Bespoke Manufacturing: Looking Ahead to the 2030 Landscape
Customized manufacturing is what customers demand, but getting there requires building a connected end-to-end value chain.
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Reimagining the Cybersecurity Workforce
Prepared for a cyber war? As cybercrime targets proliferate, manufacturers will need an army of cybersecurity experts to repel the hackers. MxD has identified 247 cyber roles that manufacturers need to consider.
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Leadership for the Digital Future
What new skills, roles, teams, or new internal functions will manufacturers need in 2030?
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