National JournalA group of scholars at the McKinsey Global Institute identified the top emerging technologies with the greatest power to transform our economy and society-not surprisingly, many of them will significantly impact manufacturing as we know it. Here are four of the hottest technologies that will help drive powerful growth and progress in manufacturing tomorrow and into the future.
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Manufacturing.netThe U.S. industrial vacancy rate dropped to its lowest level in more than a decade during the third quarter of 2014, according to commercial real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield. The company’s latest research findings, released today, show significant space absorption, which coupled with historically low supply is driving strong rent growth in most major industrial hubs.
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Manufacturing.netWhen Hurricane Odile hit the Baja California peninsula in mid-September, it quickly became one of the most destructive storms ever to make landfall in Mexico. When engineers saw that Cabo’s power lifeline, a 100-mile long transmission line starting in the city of La Paz, was too badly damaged to be completely repaired, GE stepped in with a mobile turbine built around technology originally developed for jet engines.
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The GuardianUK car manufacturing is in the midst of its strongest run of growth in 6 years, despite a drop in production in September. More than 1.13m cars rolled off production lines in British factories in the first nine months of the year. This is up 0.6% on a year earlier and the best performance over the period since 2008.
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