Advanced Manufacturing
As the advanced manufacturing sector restarts, employee safety and an understanding of the public-health and economic crises are crucial. This World Economic Forum – McKinsey industry action group focuses on strengthening supply chains and building resilience in the next normal.
Key themes
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Safeguard the workforce
Manage risks
Ensure business continuity
Drive productivity
Ensure productive operations at a distance
INSIGHTS ON ADVANCED MANUFACTURING
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The manufacturers lighting a path to sustainable growth
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Amid disruption, lighthouses have unlocked hidden capacity, widened new revenue streams, and gained market share—all while engaging workers and increasing sustainability. And at surprisingly low cost.
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution and manufacturing’s great reset
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Manufacturers that are ahead in scaling advanced production technologies are successfully navigating four durable shifts that are critical to managing unprecedented disruption.
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Industry’s fast-mover advantage: Enterprise value from digital factories
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Manufacturing’s leaders in applying Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) digital technologies are building on their head start—generating even more value across the entire enterprise.
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Digital technology and sustainability at Henkel
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Operational excellence is lowering costs and emissions at a “lighthouse” manufacturer.
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Jump-starting resilient and reimagined operations
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COVID-19 has created an imperative for companies to reconfigure their operations, and an opportunity to transform them.
World Economic Forum – McKinsey Collaborations
Global Lighthouse Network: Four durable shifts for a Great Reset in manufacturing
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Four durable shifts—agility and customer centricity, supply chain resilience, speed and productivity, and eco-efficiency—have emerged as key requirements for industrials in manufacturing and supply chain to be ready to undergo the Great Reset.
Ramping up operations and business activity post-COVID-19
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Four strategic actions can help companies to effectively prepare and ensure a successful ramp-up of production and business activity for a post-COVID-19 world.
Resuming operations and business activity post-COVID-19
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Perspectives on how companies can return to work and resume operations and business activity as early as possible, while ensuring employees’ safety and preventing new infections.
Global Lighthouse Network: Insights from the forefront of the fourth industrial revolution
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This paper looks closer at 14 “Lighthouse” manufacturers that show how end-to-end innovation in the value chain can improve productivity, operating cost, and speed to market.
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