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6 Manufacturing Trends You Need to Know

Arena Solutions

alone, colleges and universities awarded 83,263 bachelor’s degrees in engineering in 2012, a 37% increase over the 60,605 degrees conferred in 2002. IIoT The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), an extension of the IoT to industrial applications continues to be a major trend. Breaking it down In the U.S.

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Seeing Beyond the Firewall

Supply Chain Shaman

In the building of global supply chains, in the last decade, across value networks, outsourcing to third-party logistics, and contract manufacturing accelerated. In 2000-2002 I used to get a press release weekly on the launch of new B2B network models. The Gartner vision for ERP II in 2002 was destructive.