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Is industrial automation headed for a tipping point?
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A gradually evolving industry now faces nonlinear competition and technological shifts. Here are two key scenarios for the future.
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How medium-size enterprises can better manage sourcing
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Small and medium-size enterprises often struggle to find procurement cost savings. Yet there are ways to do it while still pursuing...
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European machinery companies: Achieving balance through innovation
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What can help European countries move the needle as the labor shortage worsens and inflation and costs rise? Investing in new...
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Boosting machinery sector profitability via cloud-aided digitalization
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Machinery and equipment manufacturers can realize operational, competitive, and sustainability gains with at-scale digitalization....
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Coherent’s Chuck Mattera on growing a $5 billion company
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II-VI was founded 50 years ago as a specialized materials company. Today, as Coherent, it has technology platforms in multiple...
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Digital twins: The key to smart product development
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Digital-twin technologies can help companies create better products faster. They could transform the work of product development...
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Domain-specific architectures and the future of compute
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Domain-specific architectures take center stage for compute innovation as transistor scaling falls behind Moore’s law and compute...
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Bringing a digital platform to the home heating services market: Lessons from thermondo
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The founder and CEO of thermondo discusses how he launched and scaled a fully integrated home heating services company in Germany,...
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Battery recycling takes the driver’s seat
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Electric-vehicle demand is accelerating rapidly and so is the need for EV batteries. As these batteries reach end-of-life, significant...
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Net-zero heat: Long-duration energy storage to accelerate energy system decarbonization
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Thermal energy storage has the potential to greatly contribute to decarbonizing global heat and power, while helping to ensure...
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Europe’s EV opportunity—and the charging infrastructure needed to meet it
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To go carbon neutral by 2050, Europe needs more electric vehicles on the road—and many more EV chargers too. What will...
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The Titanium Economy: Capturing opportunities in the energy transition
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Industrial technology companies have a key role in the sustainability marketplace.
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Giga-scaling low-carbon batteries: A chat with Northvolt CEO Peter Carlsson
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As global demand for low-carbon batteries accelerates, Northvolt’s CEO plans to scale a sustainable and profitable business...
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Power spike: How battery makers can respond to surging demand from EVs
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As the auto market embraces electric vehicles, battery demand is soaring. Bold moves in gigafactory construction, supply chain...
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Five charts on hydrogen’s role in a net-zero future
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Hydrogen has great potential as a carbon-free energy carrier. Here’s a look at the momentum behind this widely applicable technology....
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Smartphones on wheels: New rules for automotive-product development
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Software-driven cars need new agile, customer-centric processes along the entire product life cycle, with a software- and data-focused...