🚀 Shaping the Future – 02/2025
By embracing AI and digital transformation, focusing on sustainability, and empowering the changing workforce, manufacturers can thrive.
🧠How AI is Bridging the Skills Gap
The manufacturing industry worldwide is at a pivotal moment. As baby boomers retire and younger workers step into positions once filled by seasoned veterans, the resulting knowledge gap on the shop floor has become a serious concern for business owners and workers alike.
Across sectors – from food and beverage to high-tech manufacturing – losing senior employees creates significant expertise voids. Fortunately, emerging technologies like AI and machine learning offer new ways to tackle this issue.
Learn how these technologies are helping to bridge this knowledge gap.
👨🏭People: The Human Side of Industry 4.0
Discover why embracing technology in manufacturing is only half the battle when it comes to optimization. Industry 4.0 may promise game-changing automation, AI, and data analytics, but the secret to success lies in effectively supporting the people behind the machines.
Taking a people-first approach ensures greater buy-in, improved ROI, and a transformative edge in an era defined by rapid technological innovation.
Explore how to balance digital progress with human expertise and drive true Industry 4.0 successes in this new blog.
🍃2025 Sustainability World Cup: Smart Sustainability & Industry 4.0
The 2025 Sustainability World Cup presents an opportunity for teams of experts and laypeople alike to compete and learn about sustainability. In modern industry, companies must balance profitability and sustainability, protecting both company interests and the environment at the same time.
Watch our new on-demand webinar and learn how to achieve this balance and how you too can participate in the Sustainability World Cup!
📣Highlights from MD&M West 2025
At MD&M West 2025, Industry 4.0 Club managed the Advanced Manufacturing track and provided two workshops. Founder Carol Mitchell-Lin also moderated a panel on Driving Leadership for Women in STEM. Key takeaways include:
Charlotte W. W. – On work-life balance, you can have it all; it just doesn’t have to be all at the same time.
Brandy Hutzel – Use your voice. You are your best advocate—stand up for what you want to pursue.
Mia M. F. – Show up with three things you want to contribute, and when connecting with others, think family, health, and hobbies.
🚨New YouTube Shorts: Revolutionizing Manufacturing, Tech Startup Tips, & More
Every week, the Industry 4.0 Club releases new YouTube Shorts on a variety of manufacturing innovation topics in an easily digestible format!
With a rapidly changing manufacturing landscape, keeping current is crucial to success. Listen to experts discuss how innovation is revolutionizing manufacturing or learn about the intricacies of specialization mentorship from a tech startup leader. Explore these topics and more by visiting the I4.0 Club YouTube page and subscribing!
🏈Post Superbowl: Looking at how NFL Helmet Safety Relates to Equipment as a Service (EaaS)
Football fans witnessed an incredible showdown between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles, but have you ever wondered how the NFL’s modern safety regulations were developed—and how they connect to Equipment as a Service (EaaS)?
Discover how the NFL came to ban head-to-head collisions and see how these data-driven approaches can also benefit industrial applications. Check out this YouTube Short and learn more from the full webinar, Industry 4.0 Club’s panel discussion on Equipment as a Service (EaaS).
🎙️Upcoming Event
📆March 5th webinar: The "Should Have, Would Have, Could Have": How to Roll Out an ERP System
👋 Get Involved
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