Manufacturing digs deep with intelligent design

Manufacturing is changing, and novel approaches to information technology are at the heart of that change

Some call it the “fourth industrial revolution”, a complete transformation not only of manufacturing and industry, but of society itself. Others, perhaps more cautiously or perhaps just more focused on the benefits for industry, call it manufacturing 4.0.

Either way, manufacturing is changing, and novel approaches to information technology are at the heart of that change.

Of course, manufacturing has always been high-tech: those who talk about banging tin have neither experience of ...