{"id":2879,"date":"2019-05-23T11:04:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T11:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mrpeasy.com\/blog\/?p=2879"},"modified":"2024-02-06T13:37:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T13:37:53","slug":"week-21-in-manufacturing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrpeasy.com\/blog\/week-21-in-manufacturing-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 21 in Manufacturing News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3 Ways Industry 4.0 Will Change Engineering<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p> <strong><em>Additive manufacturing breakthroughs.<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;Previously unimaginable structures can now be created, sometimes from completely new materials, taking AM (aka 3D printing) beyond mere prototyping to final-part production. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>New computational models are being developed.<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;Coupled with the rise of additive manufacturing is a demand for more sophisticated, agile computational modelling systems that can help manufacturers take advantage of new manufacturing capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Connecting analog tools and data structures<\/em>.<\/strong>&nbsp;The Industrial Internet of Things (IIot) makes it possible to integrate sensors into many manufacturing processes, as well as some key aspects of the supply chain, better-informing design from the earliest stages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"IndustryWeek (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.industryweek.com\/technology-and-iiot\/3-ways-industry-40-will-change-engineering\" target=\"_blank\">IndustryWeek<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Trade War Update: China Throwing More Lifelines, Apple In Trouble<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>China will lend more support to strategic sectors of the economy caught in the trade war fire fight, and one big American company, namely Apple, could be the biggest visible loser as Washington targets China tech firms like telecom giant Huawei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/kenrapoza\/2019\/05\/22\/trade-war-update-china-throws-more-lifelines-apple-in-trouble\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"Forbes (opens in a new tab)\">Forbes<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">UK manufacturing hit by its worst slump in two and a half years<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Britain\u2019s manufacturing sector has suffered the worst slump in orders for more than two and a half years as the car and textile industries struggled against&nbsp;Brexit&nbsp;headwinds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CBI said its industrial trends monitor for May showed that without an agreement with the European Union, the manufacturing sector was gripped by \u201ceconomic paralysis\u201d and moving \u201cever closer to disaster\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"The Guardian (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2019\/may\/21\/uk-manufacturing-hit-by-its-worst-slump-in-two-and-a-half-years\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Will Eurozone Manufacturing Surprise Us Today?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month we saw a ray of hope as the decline in the manufacturing production slowed down.&nbsp;French manufacturing PMI&nbsp;remained in contraction in the first reading but it was revised higher in the second reading and now it remains flat. This month, the PMI indicator was&nbsp;expected to tick higher to 50.1 points. But report beat expectations coming at&nbsp;<strong>50.6 points<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxleaders.com\/news\/2019\/05\/23\/will-eurozone-manufacturing-surprise-us-today\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"FX (opens in a new tab)\">FX<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 Ways Industry 4.0 Will Change Engineering<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[3,57,59],"class_list":["post-2879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-manufacturing","tag-manufacturing-news","tag-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Week 21 in Manufacturing News - Blog for Manufacturers and Distributors<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Manufacturing news week 20 MRPeasy is a cloud-based self-service production planning ERP software for small manufacturers (10-200 employees). 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