Companies produce large volumes of data every day and this volume continues to increase. By Bert Rosenheinrich, director, engineering, SEA, Schaeffler.

Autodesk, together with Thailand's National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) and the Ministry of Science and Technology signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in a bid to advance the country’s manufacturing competitiveness through industry-wide adoption of 3D technologies and digital manufacturing capabilities.

China plans to support a few key manufacturing projects through 2018 to upgrade its manufacturing sector, a notice by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said.

Kennametal has launched a cloud-enabled digital tooling interface ToolBOSS to help machine shops with operation and management with respect to saving time, avoiding downtime and expensive overnight shipping.

Research and Markets reports that the digital manufacturing market in the US is set to grow 7.55 percent annually until 2019.