How robotics is changing the working world of the future
Artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and other forms of automation are advancing at a rapid pace, bringing companies great benefits in terms of efficiency and productivity. For advanced economies such as the US, the EU and Japan, automation could be the key to reverse the productivity slowdown since the global financial crisis. Read this article to find out how robotics will affect emp...
Do robots really take our work away or just do it for us?
The further development of AI and robots has been declared a state goal by the Chinese government. Initial successes, such as in autonomous driving, have already been achieved. As in the Middle Kingdom, all employees ask themselves the question: Will robots and AIs kill my job? Studies and experts disagree as to whether the new technologies destroy the work or create new ones and even mo...
The Industrial Internet of Things and its Role in the Manufacturing Industry
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) opens up a wide range of opportunities for the manufacturing industry in particular. Comprehensive networking is no longer a vision of the future, and the 5G mobile communications standard will presumably increase the dynamic from 2020. You can read an overview of IIoT technology and its application in production in this article. What is the Ind...
Why digitalization leads to a disruption of mechanical engineering
New technologies such as Industry 4.0 and digital platforms also open up completely new possibilities for mechanical engineering. Because both increase the efficiency of existing systems many times over, machine designers see their business threatened. In this blog post you can read how digitization is disrupting the engineering industry and what the industry can learn from agriculture...