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MANUFACTURING Designing Manufacturing’s Digital Future By Robert H. Brown and Prasad Satyavolu The Center for the Future of Work The Work Ahead is a research series providing insight and guidance on how businesses – and jobs – will evolve in the digital economy. Whether you’re a producer of consumer durables or industrial goods, the future of manufacturing isn’t just about using new technologies to design and make physical products. It’s about leveraging the power of digital to create more connected and personalized experiences for customers. Our latest study shows the way forward to the future of work for manufacturers. In this installment, we look at the new digital economics of manufacturing, as well as the ways in which new digital skills and technologies – from analytics and automation through artificial intelligence (AI) – will enable manufacturers to innovate new work (and work processes). 2 THE WORK AHEAD | DESIGNING MANUFACTURING’S DIGITAL FUTURE THE WORK AHEAD IN MANUFACTURING Traditional manufacturing has always focused on getting products and parts crafted, fabricated, stored, moved and distributed to the right place at the right time. And because no manufacturer is an island, these steps have had to be intensively coordinated among partners — suppliers, production shops, shippers, distributors, retailers and, yes, customers. Yet everywhere you turn, there are seemingly new competitive moves — everything from Amazon’s 1 private-label diapers dropped digitally at your door, to John Deere’s “Farm Forward” crop management ecosystem, 2 or GE’s digital jet engines that are instrumented down to the individual fan blade3 — that make past approaches suddenly