Industry 4.0 & Future of Education

Industry 4.0 You might have often heard from your colleagues or friends about the Fourth Industrial Revolution or Industry 4.0 a.k.a I-4.0, but what is Industrial 4.0? As defined on i-scoop.eu from guide to industry 4.0," The current trend of automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies. It includes cyber-physical systems, the Internet of things and cloud computing. Industry 4.0 creates what has been called a “smart factory”. It is the on-going automation of traditional manufacturing using smart machines and something which used to be fiction and imagination will be turning into reality in near future. An automatic factory is a place where…

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Why On-Shoring is Unfortunately Unlikely

It is increasingly rare in this day and age to find anything that everyone can agree on. The world is very split and politicized with extremes on both sides of the spectrum and very little willingness to budge or to compromise, but there is one thing that you will find almost unquestionable support for: on-shoring. Sure, maybe that’s not what its supporters typically call it, but you hear the same rally-cry in different wording from both grass-roots Green and true-blue Conservative supporters, and everyone in between. “Buy local” “Bring back manufacturing” these sentiments are really just different sides of the same…

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