Keynote: Manufacturing in the Era of Accelerated Disruption : QAD – Chicago, IL

The typical machinist today almost has to be able to do trigonometry in their heads because manufacturing has become so complex. Additive or 3d manufacturing, collapsing product lifecycles, digitization, process reinvention new skills, the acceleration of everything, exponential growth  – Futurist Jim Carroll was invited to identify the rapid trends providing for opportunity and challenge in this sector going forward.