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Cybersecurity

Pay up or lose it all. That’s the message from cybercriminals after a ransomware attack, a growing scourge that threatens the finances and reputations of companies everywhere.

Ransomware infects a company’s systems — both informational and operational — and encrypts all data. The attacker may even threaten to go public with private information...

MxD An Offline Vault
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Cybersecurity

MxD — in a new series of articles — scans the landscape of technologies and trends fueling manufacturing’s ongoing digital transformation: What’s here? What’s coming? And what’s the impact, including on the workforce? For this story we take a look at edge computing, featuring insights from Google Cloud’s Manufacturing Industry Manager ...

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The manufacturing employment gap has existed for years, but some manufacturers have built great work cultures and evolved with societal changes to successfully build talent pipelines. In some areas, local stakeholders have created education and workforce development (EWD) programs that utilize local manufacturers and specialty partners to feed...

MxD Pandemic
MxD
Cybersecurity

The COVID-19 pandemic fractured the global supply chain in many places, with shortages ranging from PPE to semiconductors to consumer products. But even before the turmoil began in spring 2020, supply chains were vulnerable.

Natural disasters like hurricanes and wildfires and other unexpected developments like labor strikes and political unrest...

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Additive Manufacturing, Biomanufacturing, Biopharmaceutical, Cybersecurity, Flexible Hybrid Electronics, Lightweight Materials, Materials, Modular Chemical Processing, Recycling, Sustainability, Sustainable Manufacturing

Industry is among the largest greenhouse gas emitters in the U.S., of all greenhouse gas emissions, according to the EPA. While great progress has been made – greenhouse gas emissions from industry, including electricity generation, have declined by 22 percent since 1990 – in many cases, alternative production...