The boundary between bits and atoms is dissolving. Idea Prototipi is leading the charge in moving intelligence from the cloud directly onto robots and vehicles (Edge AI). This evolution eliminates ...

Modern production lines also feature continuous monitoring systems that track parameters such as bulk density, particle size distribution, and moisture content in real-time. This level of control ...

The global chemical industry sits at a crossroads. For more than a century, it has relied on fossil fuels—both as feedstock ...

This story is part of a BostonomiX series called "The Future Of Work" that examines the jobs of the future and the skills needed for those jobs. The factory floor at Custom Machine Group is filled ...

We are at the dawn of a new global industrial revolution. Massive transformation is all around us. The digital and physical worlds are converging. Digital factories, artificial intelligence, advanced ...

Northwestern Engineering faculty fellow Mark Mills doesn’t view the Industrial Revolution as the result of a single cause. Rather, he considers it a confluence of three separate technological and ...

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This week, the World Economic Forum and McKinsey & Company released groundbreaking research demonstrating the enormous impact the Fourth Industrial Revolution is having on entire value chains, ...

The biggest change that the manufacturing industry is experiencing right now is the Internet of Things (IoT). The first industrial revolution was largely powered by steam power and today IoT-centric ...

Shirky’s observation came to mind while watching a recording of Bruce Sterling’s closing keynote for the ReBoot conference last month. Late in the talk, Bruce tosses out this line: “Objects are ...