Manufacturing 2020: 5G, AI, IoT And Cloud-Based Systems Will Take Over

Technology vendors expect that 2020 will be a big year for manufacturing plants to onboard digital systems. While digital systems – IoT, machine learning, 5G, cloud-based systems – have proven themselves as worthwhile investments, they may not get deployed widely. For insight on what to expect in 2020, we turned to Rajeev Gollarahalli, chief business officer at 42Q, a cloud-based MES software division of Sanmina. Gollarahalli sees a manufacturing world that will take solid steps toward digitalization in 2020, but those steps are likely to be incremental rather than revolutionary. Design News: Will 5G increase the pace of digital factory transformation, and where it will have the most impact?