New Report Offers Policy Recommendations to Improve Digital Manufacturing Adoption in the U.S.
Information and communication technology (ICT) is reshaping modern manufacturing around the world, but a new report by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), the world’s top-ranked think tank for science and technology policy, finds that U.S. manufacturers, and especially small manufacturers, have been slow to adopt digital manufacturing processes. Examining smart manufacturing adoption in the United States and Korea, the report offers policy recommendations to improve smart manufacturing adoption.
The report examines U.S. manufacturers' adoption rates of various smart manufacturing applications, such as the Industrial Internet of Things, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and data analytics, robotics, and finds that in some cases U.S. manufacturers trail international competitors in adoption of shop-floor smart manufacturing implementations.
Improve federal tracking of data on U.S. manufacturers’ implementation of digital technologies.