Manufacturing & Industry

This base sector is the driving force behind the physical economy, doing vast amounts of raw material and component processing into final products by complex and often intricate manufacturing procedures. It spans a gigantic range of segments from heavy industrial equipment and motor vehicle assembly to consumer electronics, apparel, and food processing.

The sector is in the midst of a broad technological transformation fuelled by ideas such as Industry 4.0, where automation, IoT, artificial intelligence, and data analytics are combined to drive intelligent factories that make production more efficient, better quality, allow for mass customization, and optimize intricate global supply chains.