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Manufacturing 4.x: How Digital Innovation Is Making Global Supply Chains Smarter and More Resilient

Supply chains are fraying at the edges. Factories running late. Trucks stuck at borders. Raw materials disappearing. Every month feels like a new disruption. Tariff wars. Geopolitical tensions. Climate events. The world has made predicting supply nearly impossible. Companies are scrambling. Some survive. Many do not. This is where Manufacturing 4.x comes in. Not just machines talking to machines. Not just automation. It is about systems that think. Systems that see problems before they happen. Systems that can fix themselves. Humans still matter. They guide, decide, validate. Machines act. Together they create resilience. Digital innovation is no longer optional. It is survival. Only about twenty-five percent of supply chain professionals believe their company has fully transformed digitally. That means most are exposed. Most are vulnerable. Most are reacting instead of…