Are you a leader in a small to medium-sized manufacturing business and want to make your company more competitive?

Over the past decade, a number of technologies have reached important levels of maturity, such as improvements in computing power and wireless connectivity, advancements in mathematical algorithms and lower costs of sensors and electronic hardware. The convergence of these trends means that we are now seeing the commercialization of new technologies and applications for the manufacturing shop floor – often referred to as Industry 4.0.

REMAP regards Smart Manufacturing as the rapid transfer of science and technology into digital manufacturing, product design, optimized supply chains, new business models, globalization and speed-to-market.

Maria Negulescu (left), an Industrial Technology Advisor with the National Research Counsel of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP) presenting at the REMAP Windsor conference. The REMAP Smart Manufacturing for a Connected World program is supported in part by funding from NRC IRAP.

Do you want to create a company that is more resilient to change?

Companies committed to digitization have the greatest chance to survive massive, unexpected, economic and social forces. To build resilience as manufacturers adapt to the impact of COVID-19, think about making manufacturing more flexible and vertically integrated. We’ve seen companies who have already digitized their product and processes and they can pivot faster, easily collaborate with new partners and react with innovation.