{"id":3412,"date":"2019-07-11T12:16:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T12:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mrpeasy.com\/blog\/?p=3412"},"modified":"2024-02-06T13:39:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T13:39:27","slug":"week-28-in-manufacturing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrpeasy.com\/blog\/week-28-in-manufacturing-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 28 in Manufacturing News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The World Economic Forum (WEF) has revealed its top ten emerging technologies of 2019; Pressures On China&#8217;s Manufacturing Sector Will Impact The West and other stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pressures On China&#8217;s Manufacturing Sector Will Impact The West<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The tariff tension between the Trump and Xi administrations has greatly pressured the Chinese manufacturing sector this year. While cutting prices is one way to offset a 25% tariff &#8211; possibly the only way &#8211; that\u2019s just not sustainable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China has been investing in manufacturing infrastructure for the past three decades, and it is the fruit of that investment that can not be replicated in other southeast Asian countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full story on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"Forbes (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jimcollins\/2019\/07\/10\/pressures-on-chinas-manufacturing-sector-will-impact-the-west\/#335a5421787d\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">UK manufacturing production rises 1.4% m\/m in May, misses estimates<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) published the&nbsp;<strong>UK&nbsp;<\/strong>industrial and manufacturing production data on Wednesday, with the overall industrial activity showing a smaller-than-expected improvement in the month of May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Manufacturing output arrived at +1.4% m\/m in May versus +2.1% expectations and -4.2% booked in Apr, while total industrial output came in at +1.4% vs. +1.5% expected and -2.9% last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"FX Street (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/news\/uk-manufacturing-production-rises-14-m-m-in-may-misses-estimates-201907100835\" target=\"_blank\">FX Street<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Industry 4.0 and scalability in food technology and manufacturing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Organisations of all sizes are at a critical juncture in planning the future of their manufacturing operations. One sector benefiting from this shift is the alcohol industry that is seeing a shift in consumer demand towards more craft brewers and micro-distilleries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: Manufacturers\u2019 Monthly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Top 10 emerging technologies that could transform manufacturing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The World Economic Forum (WEF) has revealed its top ten emerging technologies of 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Bioplastics for a Circular Economy<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Social Robots<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Tiny Lenses for Miniature Devices<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Disordered Proteins as Drug Targets&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Smarter Fertilizers Can Reduce Environmental Contamination<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Collaborative Telepresence&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Advanced Food Tracking and Packaging&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Safer Nuclear Reactors<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>DNA Data Storage&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Utility-Scale Storage of Renewable Energy<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2019\/07\/these-are-the-top-10-emerging-technologies-of-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"World Economic Forum (opens in a new tab)\">World Economic Forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Economic Forum (WEF) has revealed its top ten emerging technologies of 2019; Pressures On China&#8217;s Manufacturing Sector Will Impact The West and other stories.<\/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],"class_list":["post-3412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-manufacturing","tag-manufacturing-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Week 28 in Manufacturing News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Manufacturing news week 28 MRPeasy is a cloud-based self-service production planning MRP software for small manufacturers (10-200 employees). 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