"China leads smart-factory hall of fame – US way behind as Industry 4.0 powerhouse"
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has added 13 new smart factories to its ‘global lighthouse network’ of flagship sites for advanced manufacturing; its total network, proclaimed for their use of “Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies”, now stretches to 103 manufacturing facilities and “value chains”. Besides, three sites have been designated as ‘sustainability lighthouses’ for their “sustainability breakthroughs”.
The 13 new lighthouse factories include 10 in Asia and three in Europe; there are no new entries from the Americas or the Middle East, or indeed from Africa; the previous intake, a chort of 21, announced in September last year, included 13 factories in Asia, three in Europe, three in North America, and one in the Middle East. Of the total, more than half (53.4 percent) are in Asia, and most of those are in China, invariably. This compares with 35 percent in EMEA, and just 11.6 percent in the Americas.
https://enterpriseiotinsights.com/20220330/smart-factory/china-leads-smart-factory-hall-of-fame-us-way-behind-as-industry-4-0-powerhouse
