Manufacturing: Industry Trends and Drivers
Description
Extensive review of major trends, market forces, and innovation drivers that shape the future of manufacturing.
Learning Objectives
Prepare learners to recognize macro and micro trends, innovation cycles, and market drivers: digitalization, sustainability, reshoring, automation, new regulations, and customer demand changes in manufacturing.
Topics (8)
Examines regulatory, consumer, and investment pressures for sustainable business.
Focuses on smart factories, cyber-physical systems, and digital maturity models.
Covers reshoring, nearshoring, diversification, and government policy impacts.
Details mass customization, consumer enablement, and IT-empowered personalization.
Highlights GDPR, data sovereignty, sustainability regulations, and trade policies.
Covers automation, reskilling, IT-OT convergence and talent strategies.
Includes case studies of disruption and model evolution in manufacturing IT.
Discusses transformation and outcomes from major trend adoption in business units.