How Does ChatGPT Affect Manufacturing’s Labor Crisis?

As skilled tradespeople retire, manufacturers are feeling the squeeze between their customers’ reshoring initiatives and the challenge of finding skilled labor to fulfill projects.

But a new wave of generative AI that has made headlines across the world could bring relief. 

Managing skills has always been a challenge for technical manufacturers. When new employees join, it can take years for them to learn not only how to operate machines...

Dry manufacturing process offers path to cleaner, more affordable high-energy EV batteries

Early experiments have revealed significant benefits to a dry battery manufacturing process. This eliminates the use of toxic solvents while showing promise for delivering a battery that is durable, less weighed down by inactive elements and able to maintain high energy storage capacity after use. Such improvements could boost wider EV adoption, helping to reduce carbon emissions and achieve U.S. climate goals...

Interact Analysis: warehouse construction declines by 25% in 2023

While demand for mobile robots has increased this year, the number of new warehouses being built in North America and Europe has declined during 2023, according to new research from Interact Analysis. The market intelligence firm reveals in the latest update to its warehouse automation premium market research report that the fall in warehouse building is having a knock-on effect on demand for end-to-end automation projects.

Compared with 2022, there has been a 25% slowdown in the number of new warehouses being built in the US and Europe in 2023, and, as a result of this, demand for end-to-end automation decreased...