However, a large adoption of this advanced automation has been late. “It is not necessarily or simply a technological gap,” explains John Hart, professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Center for Advanced Production Technologies du MIT. “This concerns labor capacities and financial commitments and required risks.” For small and medium -sized enterprises, and those with industrial wasteland sites – more pregnant installations with inherited systems – the obstacles to implementation are important.
In recent years, governments have intervened to accelerate industrial progress. Thanks to a renaissance of industrial policies, governments encourage high -tech manufacturing, relocate critical production processes and reduce dependence on fragile global supply chains.
All these developments converge in a key moment for manufacturing. External pressures on industry – are in the process of technological progress and these new political incentives – can finally allow transition to advanced automation.
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