Key trends emerge at World Manufacturing Forum in Milan

Posted on 3 Jul 2014 by Tim Brown

Industry leaders, policy makers, and engineering researchers from 45 nations contributed to increasing confidence in the manufacturing sector’s ability to contribute to global prosperity.

Supported by the European Commission, the World Manufacturing Forum 2014, which yesterday concluded two days of meetings at Milan’s Palazzo Mezzanotte, addressed topics such as the sector’s problems and opportunities across the technical, economic, and educational domains. Other trends which were identified included: next-shoring, automation, bigdata, component tracking, workforce development & cyber-security “There has been…

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