When development cycles neared 18 months, Fossil Group knew it needed to streamline processes for all of its watches, jewelry, accessories and apparel. By focusing on aesthetic and engineering requirements, Fossil improved its design-to-hit ratios, earning a Top Innovators Award from Apparel Magazine.
Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DfMA) applies processes developed by manufacturing companies to the challenges of construction. Compass spoke with Javier Glatt, co-founder and CEO of the integrated construction and manufacturing technology company CadMakers.
Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA), which has been common in manufacturing industries for decades, is beginning to make inroads into construction. Compass talked to three industry players to discover how DfMA is bringing improved efficiency, standardization and environmental responsibility to the building industry.
As the maritime industry embraces digital transformation, major players are increasingly focused on one key enabler: the cloud. Compass talked to maritime industry players large and small about why cloud is critical to their digital evolution, and how they are taking advantage of its capabilities to transform their business.
Faced with the daunting prospect of 2 billion additional people to feed within the next 30 years, agricultural companies are scrambling to produce more food per acre. Blanketing fields with sensors that tell farmers exactly what every field needs every minute of the day could achieve that goal.
By digitalizing operations, mining companies can optimize operations and leverage new business models. Compass explores the technologies leading the digital shift, and how they are changing the ways that companies work.
Advances in materials and 3D-printing technologies have enabled electronic devices that can move, stretch and flex. This allows researchers to break new ground, creating innovations that have the potential to transform daily life.
Smartphones, tablets, laptops, TVs, drones, smartwatches – even refrigerators – all get their “intelligence” from tiny semiconductors, which carry an electric current when exposed to heat, light or electric fields. As the shrinking size of electronic devices tests the limits of silicon-based semiconductors, however, the market for conductive nanomaterials is growing.
While segments of the aerospace industry are still growing, its rate of innovation has slowed as risk-averse companies invest less in breakthrough technology. The spread of innovation centers may help reverse this trend, however, providing companies with relatively low-risk environments in which to test proof-of-concept ideas before committing their own resources.
If you still think of the cloud as an IT subject, you’re missing the point. The inflection point. The cloud is now impacting the corporate strategy of every company, and in particular, it is changing business models.
