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The Brief
Matthew Bragstad,
Global VP and Head of Vision and Strategy, Information
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Simon Keogh,
General Manager, Factory Automation, Siemens Digital Industries
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Skip Snyder,
Senior Partner, IBM Global Business Services
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With manufacturers looking to more local suppliers in light of the pandemic, is globalisation coming to an end?
8%
Local suppliers are the future
17%
Globalisation will bounce back
75%
There’ll be a balance of both
Global Additive Manufacturing Market Continues to Grow Seven industries rank additive manufacturing in their top three priority technologies for investment post-COVID-19. Since 2015, the global additive manufacturing market has grown at roughly 25% CAGR. Despite this the industry value still remains below US$15bn, representing 0.10% of the global manufacturing industry.
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India’s Potential to be a Global Manufacturing Hub As global companies look to adapt their manufacturing and supply chain strategies to become more resilient, India is placed in a unique position to become a global manufacturing hub. With 100 million people likely to enter into its workforce in the coming decade, India could help to reshape GVCs and has potential to contribute more than US$500bn in annual economic impact to the global economy by 2030.
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The Events That Lead to the Global
Chip Shortage
Expected to cost global manufacturers 4% of total sales for 2021, the global chip shortage has and continues to be a turbulent disruption across industries, from technology companies to automotive.
So what’s caused this disruption?
Dated by many to have begun in 2018 with the US-China and Japan-Korea trade wars causing disruption to semiconductor chip makers in these region; both trade wars caused increased lead times, increased pricing, and constraints on raw materials.
Despite hopes that the shortage would ease, COVID-19 struck in 2020. Across all industries manufacturers struggled to meet supply and demand in the sudden economic disruption.
Semiconductor production came to a grinding halt for almost half of the year due to government shutdowns and restrictions.
Once operations resumed companies faced increased pressures and supply demands. In particular the automotive industry experienced a rise in demand as customers avoided public transport and developed an increased desire for customisation.
Alongside this, the deterioration of raw materials continued to rise as a result of capacity restraints and the unpredictability of COVID-19.
Other contributing events included two fires in Japan causing production issues for the semiconductor plants. SUNLIGHT Global technology company and producer of industrial and energy storage solutions - Sunlight - to invest €50mn into building the world’s largest battery manufacturing unit in Greece.
COCA-COLA
EUROPACIFIC PARTNERS
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners has certified two of its manufacturing sites in Sweden and Spain as carbon neutral; marking an important milestone on its journey to reduce value chain emissions by 30% and become net zero by 2030.
CHINA Manufacturing levels in China fall in output to 49.2 for the first time since the early days of the pandemic.
Despite a rise in output towards the end of 2020, it has been reported that the country could be spiralling due to the cost of raw materials, supply bottlenecks and the rise in Delta variant cases.
UK The UK car manufacturing industry has fallen to its lowest since 1956. Producing 53,428 motors in July production fell by 37.6%.
Weak industry performance and the impact of the pandemic has caused SMMT to cut its production forecast for 2021 from 1.05 million to 950,000.
