Ken Loparo, the Case Western Reserve University’s Academic Director for the IoTC, recently spoke with WKSU about the disruptions facing small manufactures. He compared what is happening and just about to happen to the disruptions seen in industries like retail, newspapers, and the taxi business. “I don’t think Yellow Cab here in Cleveland ever saw Uber coming,” he says.
And for manufacturing, “the urgency is much more immediate than people think,” and Loparo says, Industry 4.0 is coming fast.
“In three years,” he says, “it’s going to be too late.”
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