Digital world: AI creates jobs, more products

Manufacturing with digital platforms for competitiveness, high employment and wealth generation advanced manufacturing is a wide spectrum multi- and inter-disciplinary domain where learning from experiences, simulation and modelling, materials, sensors with Internet of Things (IoT), supply-chain robustness, life cycle management, innovations through imaginations and commercialisation should work in synergy with right expertise of human resources, facilities, infrastructure and polices. Current day manufacturing covers a wide spectrum of industries -- crafts, processed food, textiles, pharma, medical devices etc. The emphasis is on software, design, manufacturing, validation of the products and capturing the imagination of customers for needs and delight through larger and more effective use of digital technologies. Manufacturing remains an engaging frontier of all emerging and advanced nations. High value and high-end customers choose products based on differentiating qualities of the products.