The World Economic Forum has identified 18 more Industry 4.0 ‘lighthouse’ factories that have managed to “transcend debilitating macro forces” by making use of the latest industrial IoT-related tech. The organisation’s latest bi-annual lighthouse intake brings its total to 132 manufacturing sites, in various industries, in all regions. It has also picked three new ‘sustainability lighthouses’, for reducing their environmental footprint through the use of sundry sensing (IoT) and sense-making (AI) tech, plus contemporary networking and computing capabilities.
