Manufacturing leaders can improve real-time supply chain visibility by using advanced technologies, real-time data monitoring, and cross-functional governance.

As experienced workers exit the industry, manufacturers must embed product and commercial expertise into scalable, digital processes.

As OT capabilities grow, leaders need intentional structures to unify IT/OT roles, refine workflows, and enable digital transformation to scale.

Manufacturing executives who master data governance and interoperability will define the competitive landscape of the next industrial decade.

AI agents grant product designers faster data access and decision support to reduce rework and enable smarter, more efficient product…

AI is enabling factories to respond faster to customer demand, adapt to disruption, and operate more profitably.

As manufacturers digitize production, gaps in data, workforce readiness and commercial processes threaten to limit smart factory ROI.

Manufacturers adopting physical and agentic AI need to build trust in the technology’s reliability, security, and safety impacts.

Despite persistent challenges, data has made measurable impacts on performance and decision-making.

More than 40% are already seeing a negative impact from tariffs, resulting in rising costs, a new MLC survey shows.…

As they climb up the maturity curve, manufacturers see a host of benefits as well as challenges with AI, says…

As they climb up the maturity curve, manufacturers see a host of benefits as well as challenges with AI, says…

As they climb up the maturity curve, manufacturers see a host of benefits as well as challenges with AI, says…

Manufacturers are at an early stage of understanding how far advanced they are with Manufacturing 4.0, as they grapple with…

Manufacturers are moving ahead with creating smarter factories as they grapple with cultural resistance and integrating new technologies.

A growing number of manufacturing organizations have brought AI to the shop floor, and as usage grows, so do aspirations…

MLC’s latest survey reveals continued disruptions and challenges but big shifts in digital technology deployments and supply network geography

Manufacturing executives want to know what digital transformation can do for their businesses, but an overall plan to find out…

Manufacturers show some progress with data mastery efforts, but much opportunity for growth exists.

Manufacturers will be pressing ahead with their M4.0 investments as they expand their digital deployments in operations, a new MLC…

Sustainability is rapidly becoming one of the key drivers of industrial transformation for the rest of the decade, reveals the…

A new MLC survey reveals that rapid technology adoption continues as manufacturers deploy transformative technologies to reshape how work gets…

More companies are taking a disciplined approach to dealing with the growing threat of cyber attacks, a new MLC survey…

In manufacturing’s new digital era, the requirements for leadership are evolving just as rapidly as the technology that is underpinning…

A new MLC survey warns that disruption could continue for as long as two years as manufacturers strive to adopt…

While pandemic disruptions created a rush to move to M4.0, MLC’s latest Factories of the Future survey finds those plans…

The desire to adopt more sustainable and environmentally responsible practices is now an overwhelming sentiment among manufacturing executives, reveals the…

Manufacturers see data’s massive potential to improve operations, predict disruptions, and bring about new revenue streams, but realizing that promise…

Manufacturers see data’s massive potential to improve operations, predict disruptions, and bring about new revenue streams, but realizing that promise…

Leadership, Organization, Culture, People

Data Mastery and Analytics

Smart Factories and Digital Production

Sustainability and the Circular Economy

Transformative Technologies

M4.0 Cybersecurity

Next Generation Leadership & Workforce

Resilient 4.0 Supply Chains

Factories of the Future: Manufacturers face disruption in their quest for M4.0.

M4.0 Sustainability and the Race to Net Zero

Transformative Technologies: Manufacturers seek a path to digital acceleration.

M4.0 Data Mastery: Collecting data is just the starting point for building smarter, more adaptive organizations.

Next-Gen Leadership: Manufacturing is making its shift from command-and-control to collaborative and decentralized.

M4.0 Cultures: Digitally-enabled business culture is key to surviving and thriving in disruption.

Factories of the Future: Digital adoption is accelerating in the wake of global disruption.