by The Manufacturer | Apr 15, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Workforce
New Funding Accelerates AI Training for Manufacturing Workers Across the U.S. Google is stepping up efforts to future-proof the U.S. manufacturing workforce with a $10 million investment through its philanthropic arm, Google.org, aimed at accelerating AI adoption and...
by The Manufacturer | Oct 19, 2022 | Industry 4.0
There’s no question that smart factories are at the heart of the future of manufacturing. But what exactly is a smart factory, what technologies make it tick, and what makes it ‘smart’?In a nutshell, smart factories are manufacturing facilities that rely heavily...
by The Manufacturer | Jul 27, 2022 | Industry 4.0
The Smart Industry Readiness Index (SIRI) is a pioneering, independent digital maturity assessment for manufacturing companies, endorsed by the World Economic Forum, which has quickly become the internationally-recognised standard for Industry 4.0 benchmarking. Over...
by The Manufacturer | Jul 7, 2022 | IoT
Industry 4.0 has been well and truly explosive for the last decade, and its growth doesn’t seem to be stopping. The Global System for Mobile Communication Association (GSMA) predicts that, by 2025, there will be more than 25 billion Internet of Things (IoT)...
by The Manufacturer | Jun 1, 2022 | Education
Business school students about to enter the job market are concerned about their lack of digital skills when it comes to getting a job in Industry 4.0 – or the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Industry 4.0 refers to the digitisation of manufacturing – or more...
