FOREWORD

MANUFACTURING DIGITAL TEAM

SENIOR EDITOR JASMIN JESSEN

DEPUTY EDITOR LOUIS FARGHER

LEAD DESIGNER SCARLET WILLIAM

MEDIA DIRECTORS DAN WHITE KIERAN DELANEY

PRODUCTION MANAGERS YEVHENIIA SUBBOTINA FREYA REID

MARKETING LEAD LOTTIE TAYLOR

MANAGING EDITORS TOM CHAPMAN LUCY BUCHHOLZ

PRODUCTION DIRECTORS DANIELA KIANICKOVÁ JANE ARNETA

MANAGING DIRECTOR LONDON & EVENTS

JAMES CALLEN

CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER JAMES WHITE

CHIEF COMMERCIAL OFFICER LEWIS VAUGHAN

CEO GLEN WHITE

Daniela Pires has tripled headcount and grown output eightfold at Ericsson’ s Texas 5G Smart Factory since 2020. Tesla converted an entire production line to build Optimus robots in 46 days. Manufacturing, it turns out, can move a lot faster than its reputation suggests!

Kris Baxter runs Micron’ s US $ 15bn Automotive and Embedded Business Unit, and he’ s betting that older chip technology is what actually keeps pace with industry. NTT DATA’ s Sheetal Mehta warns that cyber risk is outrunning manufacturers’ ability to react. I feel like we ask the same question in this issue from a few different angles: when everything speeds up, what actually sticks?

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