{"id":542,"date":"2021-03-09T04:05:22","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T04:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.industryinform.com\/?p=542"},"modified":"2021-03-08T15:05:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T15:05:15","slug":"silicon-valley-start-up-ceo-highlights-advanced-manufacturing-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.industryinform.com\/?p=542","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley Start-Up CEO Highlights Advanced Manufacturing Trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a tumultuous 2020, advanced manufacturing companies are regrouping for the future. As in other industries, the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted the sector, forcing change, adaptation, and an acceleration of certain trends.<\/p>\n<p>Lockdown measures highlighted the fragility of human-centered workspaces. The factory floor will continue its <strong>digital transformation<\/strong>, aided by sensors, connectivity, robotics, machine learning, and other advanced technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Many companies are likely to shift to more <strong>localized production<\/strong> to be closer to their consumers and to create more resilient supply chains. Among other reasons, increased protectionism in recent years is driving the reshoring process.<\/p>\n<p>Amar Hanspal, CEO of Bright Machines, a Silicon Valley start-up focusing on automation in the electronics manufacturing industry, writes about three additional trends in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/amarhanspal\/2020\/12\/07\/five-predictions-for-the-manufacturing-industry-in-2021\/?sh=26187fee28ca\">Forbes<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a tumultuous 2020, advanced manufacturing companies are regrouping for the future. As in other industries, the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted the sector, forcing change, adaptation, and an acceleration of certain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.industryinform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.industryinform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.industryinform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.industryinform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.industryinform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.industryinform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554,"href":"https:\/\/blog.industryinform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.industryinform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.industryinform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.industryinform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.industryinform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}