🚀 Shaping the Future - Issue 63
By embracing digital transformation, focusing on sustainability, offering customization, and building resilient supply chains, manufacturers can thrive in this dynamic environment.
🚨Unleash Your Potential in the Digital Renaissance
Join industry veteran Jason Bean for a groundbreaking workshop that bridges millennia of human knowledge with cutting-edge AI technology. This workshop is perfect for professionals looking to leverage AI in their work, leaders aiming to guide their teams through the AI revolution, and curious individuals wanting to understand and shape the future of AI.
In this intensive, interactive session, you will:
Engage in hands-on exercises to sharpen your critical AI engagement skills
Learn strategies to balance AI insights with human expertise
Gain practical techniques for continuous learning in the rapidly evolving AI landscape
Master the MASTER framework for effective prompt engineering:
- Map the Role
- Accumulate Examples
- Search Using Web Tools
- Translate Insights
- Elaborate Narratives
- Refine Questions
About This Workshop
Unlike typical tech workshops, this unique session blends philosophical insights with practical AI skills. You’ll learn how to:
Apply Socratic questioning to enhance your AI interactions and avoid common pitfalls
Develop a polymathic approach to problem-solving using GenAI
Navigate the ethical challenges of AI with newly developed "digital virtues", digital humility, algorithmic empathy and data stewardship
Explore the concept of the "Digital Renaissance" and your role in shaping it
📚What we’ve read this week
The biggest opportunities and challenges for manufacturers right now? And how can you lean into them? [Manufacturing Insights]
The manufacturing industry is rife with opportunities and challenges. By embracing digital transformation, focusing on sustainability, offering customization, and building resilient supply chains, manufacturers can thrive in this dynamic environment. However, they must also address skill gaps, cybersecurity threats, regulatory compliance, and supply chain disruptions. Manufacturers who strategically lean into these trends and invest in continuous learning and adaptation will not only overcome challenges but also seize the opportunities to lead in the industry. My own experience underscores the importance of embracing change and continuously upgrading skills to stay ahead in this ever-evolving landscape.
AI in industrial automation offers immense potential, but its success depends on a robust foundation built on understanding data acquisition, aggregation, and ownership. By collaborating closely with system integrators and OEMs, ensuring seamless data aggregation, and maintaining control over their data, companies can harness the full power of AI to drive efficiency, productivity, and innovation in their operations.
Chinese Overcapacity is Crushing the Global Steel Industry [Economist]
China's massive steel production and a 35% increase in exports to 90 million tonnes in 2023, driven by domestic economic challenges, have flooded global markets, affecting competitors like Nippon Steel and ArcelorMittal, leading to protective tariffs from countries worldwide. In response, Chinese steel companies are investing overseas and shifting focus to domestic sectors like EV manufacturing, while global trade dynamics are reshaping under the pressure of China's steel surplus.
What’s New in SOLIDWORKS 2025 [Dassault]
Dassault Systèmes launched SOLIDWORKS 2025, the latest release of its portfolio of 3D design and product development applications. SOLIDWORKS 2025 features enhanced collaboration and data management, streamlined workflows for parts, assemblies, drawings, 3D dimensioning and tolerancing, electrical and pipe routing, ECAD/MCAD collaboration, and rendering. The updates also include additions to the SOLIDWORKS PDM, SOLIDWORKS Simulation, SOLIDWORKS Electric Schematic, SOLIDWORKS Electrical Schematic Designer, and DraftSight applications that enable faster design.
What Scared Ford’s CEO in China [WSJ]
Jim Farley, Ford's CEO, has observed advanced AI and technology integration in Chinese EVs, prompting Ford to rethink its strategy by focusing on commercial vehicles and smaller, more affordable EVs in China, canceling a planned electric SUV, and developing a new low-cost EV platform. This shift follows his realization that Chinese competitors like Xiaomi and Li Auto are leveraging technology in ways that surpass Ford's current offerings, leading to potential financial challenges as Ford expects to lose about $5 billion on EVs this year.
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