Paul Miller

Industry 5.0: What is it and what does its future hold? https://t.co/KGtBhqx6Ed via @computerweekly <- Marc Ambasna-Jones cuts through some of the #industry50 noise: thanks for including @forrester’s perspective in the piece.

Forrester publishes predictions for #smartmanufacturing in 2024. https://t.co/OI015JGciX via @Forrester <- me, blogging about our smart manufacturing predictions. There’s a taste of two of them in the blog, and clients can dig deeper with the full report and a 5 December webinar.

The world's tallest wind turbine tower made of wood is under construction in Sweden. https://t.co/YPyeBBiiMJ via @climate <- interesting, but more info needed on relative cost, lifespan, etc. Worth digging further.

Daughter finished her first @Great_Run today in under 2 hours, raising money for @PancreaticCanUK . Proud dad. https://t.co/Rc9C9cWb3W

Tuscany Geysers That Inspired Dante’s ‘Inferno’ Can Fix Europe’s Energy Bind <- “Larderello is home to the world’s oldest geothermal power site… The facility started powering light bulbs in 1904” - interesting. https://t.co/07AIA0Sd1F

The Industrial Metaverse Is A Good Idea That Needs A Better Name https://t.co/i63psduttj <- @martha_bennett and I, blogging about our new @Forrester report on the #industrialmetaverse

“Nobody wants to do maintenance” on critical infrastructure except these oddball tech startups, reports @mims in the @WSJ. https://t.co/OzlcP259dq : the biggest challenge I hear from their customers is often the weather - wind, rain, etc make a drone or bot's job very difficult.

Find The Right Use Cases For Your Robots https://t.co/wyACI883qw via @Forrester <- me, blogging about my new report (and upcoming client webinar) on #robots, #autonomy, #automation, and more...

Many companies, over many years, made big consumer plays for AR or VR or MR or (most recently) metaverse, only to belatedly realise that enterprise uses like employee training made more sense. The use case is not a surprise. That it took all of them so long to work it out is.

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Meta is hoping to revive interest in the metaverse by pitching it as a tool to help train workforces https://t.co/iQUXw59I5C

RT @FT: Push-buttons are coming back, hurrah! https://t.co/T4uH8J19A0 | opinion

Hannover Messe 2023: It’s Back https://t.co/MxBmKUAStQ <- me, blogging about my takeaways from #HM23 last week... @Forrester

Fossil-Fuel Veterans Find Next Act With Green Hydrogen - WSJ https://t.co/oZebabgotc

Every seat on this train from Amsterdam seems to be reserved to Hannover. I wonder why that might be? :-o #HM2023 https://t.co/SDs5BhVCiD

US manufacturing commitments double after Biden subsidies - @FT - “semiconductor and clean tech investments almost double [those] made in same sectors in whole of 2021, and nearly 20x the amount in 2019, according to data compiled by the Financial Times.” https://t.co/jWjPDeIjWv

Responding To Today’s Global Uncertainty With Sustainability https://t.co/Yeyym20POE <- blogging about a 30 March @forrester client webinar involving colleagues @abhijitsunil20 and Michele Pelino, plus @AndreasWGeiss @eryndevola and Michael Butschek from @siemens #sustainability

Appliance makers hope “smart" appliances will transform their businesses https://t.co/oTmQfDRkWc - but @IsabelleBiscuit reports "less than half" the smart appliances LG sells "stay connected to the internet." Entirely unsurprised: smart product *consumer* play rarely compelling.

The growing power and falling cost of #3Dprinting has implications for how, when, and where all kinds of products are manufactured https://t.co/wTO5rgJnXB <- nice @WSJ piece from @mims. We reached similar conclusions in this @forrester client report - https://t.co/8XvU9qHGak