Examining the need for integration in supply chain planning and the five evolution levels companies need to consider.

How resilient supply networks enable supply chain leaders to predict, manage, and respond to constant disruption.

With supply chains moving toward more normalcy, it’s time to refocus on supplier risk management.

With unending disruption, the old model of cost-efficient linear supply chains must be rethought for resiliency and agility.

Manufacturers that integrate digital can reap benefits on the shop floor, in SIOP planning, and in third-party relationships.

Supply chains’ new optimization problem: becoming more resilient while minimizing costs. Here’s how to strike the right balance.

Blockchain-based solutions offer promise in solving supply chain issues around uncertainty of product, quality, and ethical practices.

Three real-world scenarios illustrate where supply chain disruption can be turned into business opportunity.

With disruption as the new norm, manufacturers need to ensure their supply networks and ecosystems can adapt.

Manufacturers can future proof their supply chains using digitization, Lean and Agile methodologies, and 4.0 technologies.

Lean approaches, improved agility, and a culture of servant leadership are key to future industry success, believes EnerSys SVP Patrice…

Listening to employees and their ideas helps drive new ways of doing business, says Worthington VP, Joe Resko.

Developing talent, ensuring workforce safety, and scaling breakthrough digital transformations in production are key priorities for Boeing VP, Scott Stocker.

USM’s goal is to foster a closed loop program that recycles both metallic and non-metallic materials to be put back…

Leaders need to be ready to think and act outside the normal lanes of operation and stay ahead of future…

Manufacturing needs to adopt a more flexible, resilient approach to global supply chains, believes Madison Industries’ Filtration Group CPO Tim…

OT cybersecurity has new importance for the future, believes Dragos VP, Peter Vescuso.   

The disruptive impact of the pandemic has highlighted the importance of more flexible, demand-driven approaches that can adapt to sudden…

Fostering a culture of collaboration, partnership, and agility is key to leadership success, believes ALOM Technologies’ CEO Hannah Kain.

Supply chain resiliency and agility are manufacturing’s highest priorities in a world where disruption will become the new business normal,…

Targeted automation projects harnessing predictive analytics will help manufacturers become more efficient, agile, and flexible while maintaining great quality, believes…

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.