This paper, developed by the World Economic Forum’s Advanced Manufacturing Industry community, shows how advanced manufacturing can offer solutions to global disruptions and a path to more innovative, inclusive and sustainable industry transformation.

Global megatrends are creating increasingly frequent disruptions to economies and organizations, which in turn are reshaping global value chains and pushing industries and manufacturing to transform themselves. These megatrends include geopolitical tensions and economic instabilities, climate change, technology integration and changing people dynamics.