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The Factory of Tomorrow: How Manufacturing Is Being Rebuilt for the Next Decade
The factory of tomorrow is taking shape through technologies and operating practices already entering manufacturing today. Automation, artificial intelligence, connected equipment, advanced maintenance, cleaner energy and changing workforce skills are gradually reshaping production. This edition brings these developments together to examine how factories may evolve over the next decade. It focuses on the interaction between technology, people, processes and infrastructure, and why successful industrial transformation will depend on integrating them rather than pursuing each in isolation.
Editor's Note
The future factory will not arrive through a single technology or investment. It will emerge from many improvements made across equipment, software, energy, skills and operating processes. Our final edition of 2027 brings these threads together to consider the direction manufacturing is taking and why the strongest factories of tomorrow are likely to combine advanced technology with engineering discipline, capable people and resilient operations.
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