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• Future of Manufacturing Work: Who Is the Worker?

  Today, the manufacturing industry is at a defining moment. It is facing a generational workforce shift and an accelerating wave of digital transformation, reshaping not only how we make things—but who makes them. Sounds silly right but hold on to your hats. There are a lot of winds on the horizon and the maker of [...]

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• Future of Construction Work: Who Is the Worker?

  Today, the construction industry is at a crossroads. We have a demographic shift and rapid technological advances, which is leading to an entirely new construction workforce. Add to this the fact the construction industry is in the middle of a labor crisis. We’re short more than half a million workers this year alone, and that’s [...]

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• AI: Driving Sustainability in Manufacturing

  Sustainability in manufacturing and the supply chain is important for many reasons. Today, this linear economy of take-make-waste, where we see material flow directly from resource extraction through manufacturing processes to landfills, has reached its capacity. And quite frankly, sustainability is often good for business and for the bottomline. In my book, Sustainable in a [...]

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• AI in Construction: Worker Strategies for Success

  Summer may be coming to a close, but AI (artificial intelligence) is still one of the hottest technologies in the construction industry, and it will have a long-lasting impact on the construction industry. But it will only be successful if we align people, process, and technology. If you have been following along here, then you [...]

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• Success Stories: Advanced Grid for AI

  On roughly 5,800 acres in the Texas Panhandle will sit a power campus—a private grid and intelligence development center. The Advanced Energy and Intelligence Campus will support the growing demands of AI (artificial intelligence), data innovation, and sustainable energy. Together, the Texas Tech University System and Fermi America will create the campus, which will include [...]

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