2018-2019 List of Breakthrough Technologies shared by Bill Stankiewicz, Savannah Supply Chain

“When a brand new technology immediately starts to rolls over you, two things happen: One, you may be a part of the steamroller, or 2 you’re going to be part of the road.” (Per Bill Stankiewicz, Savannah Supply Chain Executive) We see that companies need to take advantage of these technology breakthroughs to grow revenue, lower costs, and optimize assets. Below are 10 technologies that have been talked about on conferences, MIT, Gartner, Forrester & in many business companies.

Industrial Machinery and Component

The Industrial Machinery and Component (IM&C) sector is seeing many new opportunities – and new challenges – from a steady stream of breakthrough innovations such as:

3D-Printing, and 3D metal printing gives manufacturers the ability to make a single or small number of metal parts much more cheaply than using existing mass-production techniques,

Artificial Embryos

For the first time, researchers have made embryo-like structures from stem cells alone, without using egg or sperm cells. This will open new possibilities for understanding how life comes into existence – but clearly also raises vital ethical and even philosophical problems

Sensing City

At Toronto’s Waterfront district, Google’s parent company, Alphabet, are implementing sensors and analytics in order to rethink how cities are built, run, and lived in. The aim is to integrate urban design with cutting edge technology in order to make “smart cities” more affordable, live-able and environmentally sustainable.

Cloud-based AI services

Key players here include Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft, which are all working on increasing access to machine learning and artificial neural network technology, in order to make it more affordable and easy to use. 

Dueling Neural Networks

This breakthrough promises to bestow AI with “imagination”, through allowing them to essentially “spar” with each other. Work at Google Brain, Deep Mind and Nvidia is focused on enabling systems that will create ultra-realistic, computer generated images or sounds, beyond what is currently possible.

Zero-carbon Natural Gas

New engineering methods make it possible to capture carbon released during the burning of natural gas, avoiding greenhouse emissions and opening up new possibilities for creating clean energy.

Machine Learning In the world of IT, you can’t get enough of machine learning (ML) and its potential to change the way future generations interact with the world. With this technology, self-driving vehicles have gone from a theory to a reality that is less than a 10-12 years away from being widely accepted in open roads. You may still have a driver and he or she may control 2 or 3 trailers in a caravan in the future.

Digital Twins In layman's terms, a digital twin is a virtual model of a process, product or service. This pairing of the virtual and physical worlds allows analysis of data and monitoring of systems to head off problems before they even occur, prevent downtime, develop new opportunities and even plan for the future by using simulations. I could of used one in college to do the studying for me.

Blockchains will be helping in Perfecting Online Privacy

Blockchain-based privacy systems make it possible for digital transactions to be recorded and validated while protecting the privacy of the information and identities underlying the exchange of information.

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Thank you for reading,

Bill Stankiewicz

Managing Director

Savannah Supply Chain

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References: https://www.technologyreview.com/lists/technologies/2018/

https://businessradiox.com/podcast/supply-chain-now/supply-chain-now-radio-episode-17/

https://cdn.voiceamerica.com/business/011760/sapfuturemanufacturing033017.mp3

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2017/03/06/what-is-digital-twin-technology-and-why-is-it-so-important/#126463922e2a