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Are you ready for metamorphic manufacturing, what some call the third wave of the industry’s digitization? If not, take in Contributing Editor Karen Haywood Queen’s expertly reported story.

Metamorphic manufacturing, also known as robotic blacksmithing, is poised to bring about faster time to market, less material waste, more available materials, less energy used and more control, proponents said.

Smart manufacturing is now being rapidly adopted by a much wider range of business sectors.

The COVID-19 black swan event disrupted the global economy and forced companies to rapidly rethink their processes, operations and supply networks.

To get to smart manufacturing, the industry needs integration, simulation and analysis.

Like the United Nations’ international delegates who use interpreters to understand each other, robots, machines and other industrial components from various vendors speak different computer languages and need translators to help them communicate.

LIFT recently expanded the focus of its desire to “create innovations faster, better and cheaper” to the materials, processes and systems involved in moving innovations from concept to commercialization.

Listen to this Smart Manufacturing magazine cover story: Twenty women making their mark in robotics & automation

Thanks in part to its pro-business policies, strong workforce, and trade infrastructure, Florida ranks among the nation’s top 10 states for manufacturing.

I first wrote about substitute skin in 1993. And at the time, it seemed that stand-in organs—at scale—were imminent.