Manufacturing Tecnology

How artificial intelligence is disrupting manufacturing For traditional manufacturers, integrating AI across day-to-day processes and equipment is no small task. Firms can keep up or risk becoming obsolete.   Credit: Creative Commons The following is an opinion piece from Filemon Schöffer, co-founder and CCO of 3D Hubs, a 3D printing and manufacturing company. Opinions are the author's own.​ Rather than constantly innovating over the last half century, parts manufacturing fell into complacency, sidestepping rather than moving forwards. As a result, the sector is struggling to keep up with the rapid pace of digital transformation. With the growth of Industry 4.0 technologies, sluggish and inefficient...

The Robotics Sector in 2020 and Beyond: Predictions from Industry Gurus A new year (and new decade!) will soon be upon us, which means it is time again for the time-honored ritual of experts and luminaries opining on what the future holds for 2020, and the robotics sector is no different. Robotics Business Review reached out to a number of robotics and intelligent systems industry thought leaders and asked them to provide us with their predictions for the upcoming year and the decade following. In future articles, Robotics Business Review editors will give their thoughts on what is to come in 2020 and...

Cybersecurity industry predictions for 2020 and beyond When it comes to cybersecurity industry predictions for 2020, Optiv researchers expect to see a focus on privacy, evolving threat actors, pervasive deepfake videos, and increased election interference. “As we look beyond 2019 and into 2020, we have a solid idea of what threats the industry is facing, and not just ransomware and phishing attacks, but new, hard-to-combat threats,” said Anthony Diaz, division vice president, emerging services, at Optiv. “As is always the case, us ‘good guys’ are forced play catch up with bad actors, who constantly remain a step ahead. There is much IT and business...

Data and analytics in 2020: Industry predictions There's no shortage of experts and opinions in the world of data and analytics. But the end of the year provides a nice forcing function to collect analyses and prognostications, then slice, dice and summarize them. This year, as you might expect, experts in the field had a lot to say about Big Data, AI, the cloud, skills shortages and more. Our harvest of predictions follows, organized by theme. BEATING A DEAD ELEPHANT? What would a year-end opinion roundup be without bashing Hadoop and Big Data, while at the same time, realizing that its death...

HOMELY (antes Jelp mi!), la startup que te ayuda a encontrar profesionistas de limpieza para tu casa u oficina Desde su creación en 2015, la aplicación Jelp mi! nos ha sorprendido por su gran aporte a la sociedad; siendo la primera app de su tipo en México, demostrando la confianza y compromiso con sus usuarios desde el primer instante. La startup mexicana es una aplicación móvil que no sólo conecta a usuarios con profesionales de limpieza de confianza; sino que apuesta por la mejora continua para crear mayores oportunidades para todos. Melina Cruz Villafaña y Edgar Tello Miranda, dos amigos...