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Anticipating how pioneering technologies, innovative business models and new partnerships are transforming businesses and governments’ ability to drive economic and societal impact.
The Platform Shaping the Future of Advanced Manufacturing and Value Chains examines everything from research and development to design, consumer behaviour and end-of-use cycles. We engage multiple industries as diverse as automotive, chemicals, electronics, healthcare and textiles. While manufacturing has been the foremost source of growth, jobs and innovation globally, its sectors also contribute heavily to CO2 emissions and climate change. Emerging technologies, however, are transforming manufacturing and value chains, enabling more efficient processes and creating new value for industry, society and the environment.
This Platform brings together a diverse community of 200+ organizations from more than 22 industry sectors, governments, academic institutions and civil society, to accelerate inclusive technology adoption, while stimulating innovation, sustainability and employment. The community evaluates and proposes pilots, examines the latest approaches in skills development, drives improvements in partnerships and informs business model transformations and next generation industrial development strategies.
Our Platform enables solutions to the greatest challenges facing multiple industries and governments, accelerating the growth of advanced manufacturing while helping stakeholders fulfil their social and environmental responsibility.
The World Economic Forum’s Global Lighthouse Network is a community of leading manufacturers applying advanced technologies to speed up and spread the smart adoption of Fourth Industrial ...
In a world where appearances matter, slipping into a new dress or pair of jeans or showing off a new purse can be a big confidence booster. However, clothes that are new to you do not nec...
With global production sectors responsible for one-fifth of carbon emissions – consuming 54% of the world’s energy sources – there is an urgent need for manufacturing companies to address...
The COVID-19 global pandemic continues to disrupt manufacturing and supply chains, with severe consequences for society, businesses, consumers and the global economy.
Emerging technologies, the world’s climate emergency and growing trade tensions between the US, China and Europe are disrupting supply chains, impacting trade.
Changing global context is challenging traditional approaches to supply chains Recent global developments are triggering a rethink of global supply chain configurations with important imp...
To learn more or apply to join the lighthouse network, email us at LighthouseNetwork@weforum.org
As organizations in the manufacturing and production ecosystem are rethinking and reimagining their business and operating models to rebuild from covid-19, there is now a window of opport...
What is Additive Manufacturing’s true potential for industry? Is it really poised to transform global manufacturing to drive resilience and enable more distributed and resilient value cha...
MissionAn accelerator for bringing together tomorrow's industry leaders and support them in designing and driving a responsible industry transformation - while getting the world excited a...
Manufacturing industries are on the verge of a data-driven revolution. They collaborate in hyperconnected value networks employing a large variety of data‑and‑analytics applications. Data...
By deploying the right intelligent manufacturing technologies such as AI, manufacturers can boost efficiency, improve agility, and enable self-optimizing operations. Yet, only about 9% of...
SIRI: The Smart Industry Readiness IndexThe Smart Industry Readiness Index (SIRI) comprises a suite of frameworks and tools to help manufacturers – regardless of size and industry – start...
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is transforming the roles of people, technology, and work in industry. While the level of automation on shop floors increases, it is not always effective ...
ContextThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) paints a stark picture for the future of our planet. Upcoming regulations will force companies to act on their commitments to n...
Goal: Support companies and governments in navigating global value chain disruption from mega trends related to climate change, geopolitical tensions and technological innovation to incre...
In order to avert a catastrophic climate disaster, global clean energy investments of approximately $4-5 trillion are required annually by 2030 – a more than threefold increase from exist...
The Circular Transformation of Industries is a cross-industry multi-stakeholder initiative at the World Economic Forum that aims to enable a growing, resilient and sustainable economy thr...
While global mega-trends – including shifting geopolitical and trade alignments, climate change and the emergence of disruptive technologies – affect every corner of the planet, the impac...
With an ever-changing landscape in the global economy, industrial companies are forced to rethink their use of resources and their contribution to economic growth. Circular transformation...
A new chapter of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is under way amid continuing major global disruptions that include soaring energy prices and inflation, talent shortages, supply chain di...
The global economy has entered a new mega-cycle characterized by value chain disruptions, resource competition, and climate change. Leading manufacturers are re-evaluating and fundamental...
The World Economic Forum, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge’s Industrial Innovation Policy Group, and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, has identifie...
While many companies have started their journey towards achieving net-zero emissions, no company can manage the transformation of its manufacturing facilities and value chains alone if bo...
Artificial intelligence (AI) can enable a new era in the digital transformation journey, offering tremendous potential to transform industries for greater efficiency, sustainability and w...
The Global Network of Advanced Manufacturing Hubs (AMHUBs) is a community of communities representing industry ecosystems from around the world that come together to address the most pres...
Biomanufacturing applications are exiting the labs and impacting value chains. Innovation and recent advancements in the field of synthetic biology have enabled significant expansions in ...
In collaboration with Boston Consulting Group
For more than a decade, manufacturing leaders have seen cycles of hype associated with additive manufacturing (AM). Although not all predictions and forecasts have become reality, the ind...
Although technology is an important pillar of organizational strategy, people remain essential on shop floors and will continue to be so in the future.
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and when it comes to the current state of global value chains, weakness is evident everywhere upstream and downstream. No industry is insula...
A massive global infrastructure investment of $66 trillion is needed in emerging economies before 2030. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) offers a new development paradigm by investing i...
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the critical role that manufacturing and supply chain systems play in powering the global economy. To navigate current and future market and climate ...
Supply chains have been disrupted and altered over the past years in an unprecedented way as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and megatrends such as emerging technologies, sustainability...
Lighthouses have established themselves as beacons of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, adapting to four durable shifts – agility and customer centricity; supply chain resilience; speed a...
Leadership teams are facing a pivotal shift. To compete effectively, companies need full visibility throughout their value chains. This paper presents a framework for understanding how tr...
Beyond the unprecedented health impact, the COVID 19 pandemic has been catastrophic for the global economy and businesses and is disrupting manufacturing and Global Value Chains (GVCs), d...
Manufacturing companies have been forced to adapt to COVID-19 and the challenges are far from over. An acceleration of megatrends including climate change, geopolitical tensions and emerg...
The Global Network of Advanced Manufacturing Hubs engages manufacturing ecosystems at the local, state/province or national level to allow regions to share their best practices and case e...
Digital is no longer optional. Global disruptions and instabilities impose a pressing need and opportunity for quantitative and qualitative growth amidst shifts in supply, demand, and cus...
In collaboration with Boston Consulting Group
El Foro ha creado el Grupo de Acción Regional para América Latina, integrado por un grupo comprometido de socios de confianza, entre los que se encuentran los principales directores ejecu...
The World Economic Forum’s Global Lighthouse Network comprises 54 leading companies that have succeeded in the adoption of Fourth Industrial Revolution technology at scale, at individual ...
The COVID-19 global crisis continues to disrupt manufacturing and global supply chains with severe consequences for society, businesses, consumers, and the global economy. While the pande...
While powerful megatrends like global trade tensions, climate change, new technology innovations, and the current COVID-19 crisis impact all parts of the globe, the reality of those impac...
Sinking, swimming or surfing: Perspectives on operating and business models
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While the manufacturing and production sectors comprise 16% of global GDP and are key drivers for economies around the world, the complex network of supply chains on which these sectors r...
In collaboration with Boston Consulting Group
Over the past years, a leading group of manufacturers have made impressive progress scaling Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies within the manufacturing plant environment. The World...
3D printing (3DP) might revolutionize the way products are made by disrupting manufacturing patterns, creating novel visual forms that were never possible before, enabling mass customizat...
Unlocking Manufacturing Innovation
Recent years have seen Michigan’s economy grow consistently, with its manufacturing industry a main driver of this economic prosperity. The automotive sector has long been a cornerstone o...
This White Paper is the product of a joint effort by the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Economic Forum’s System Initiatives on Shaping the Future of Production and Shaping ...
Fourth Industrial Revolution trends are disrupting long-established business models. Growing demand for customized products. Shifts and skill mismatches in production value chains. Digiti...
The World Economic Forum, in collaboration with McKinsey and Company, has identified 16 “Manufacturing Lighthouses”; production sites which are world leaders in the successful adoption an...
The future of manufacturing is at an inflection point. Consumers are demanding personalized products and services, instantly fulfilled. Industry incumbents are racing to adjust to this ne...
The Fourth Industrial Revolution has transformed production industries with breathtaking speed and scale. Driven by macro and industry trends, global production value chains are shifting,...
This white paper serves as a guide for optimizing the benefits of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in production, helping countries and businesses identify ways to transform their product...
After a decade of stagnated productivity, the Fourth Industrial Revolution is expected to create up to $3.7 trillion in value by 2025. Technologies such as the internet of things, advance...
Disruptive technologies are transforming all end-to-end steps in production and business models in most sectors of the economy. The products that consumers demand, factory processes and f...
The nature of production is undergoing unprecedented change as new technologies transform cost structures, make new business models and methods of production available, and bring entirely...
The transformative potential of technology in production systems is widely recognized, even while the precise configuration and extent of the possible transformation remain unknown. Produ...
Artificial intelligence (AI) can enable a new era in the digital transformation journey, offering tremendous potential to transform industries for greater efficiency, sustainability and w...
