Disruptive Technologies Offer Major Opportunities — and Headaches — for Manufacturers
New study finds some manufacturers are ready to leverage cutting edge technologies — while others fall behind New research finds that manufacturing leaders are worried about disruptive technologies — robotics, artificial intelligence, additive manufacturing, and analytics — and yet few are doing much about it. The MPI Disruptive Technologies in Manufacturing Study surveyed more than 400 executives at manufacturing companies around the globe and found that: 88 percent report that their industries and markets are vulnerable to disruptive technologies (29 percent “extremely vulnerable” and 59 percent “somewhat vulnerable”). 86 percent report that their own companies are vulnerable to disruptive [...]