Manufacturing technology


A 3D-printed implant designed to reconnect a broken clavicular bone.


Yet, if I4.0 is dominant in a rhetorical sense, its march from academic conferences to factory gates has been less secure. Nowhere is that arguably truer than the field of medical device development. You can certainly find articles linking the two sectors all over the internet. But experts continue to fear that a sphere as subtle as medical equipment may struggle to adapt to the radical potential of digitalisation and AI. Among other things, insiders worry about the difficulty of training staff in new technology, as well as that of exploding traditional corporate cultures. Security is another challenge; after all, if a computer starts making personalised implants, that sensitive data is at risk of being stolen.


But though I4.0 may have traditionally struggled to make its mark on medical devices, the generational emergency of Covid-19 could be the turning point it needed. Nor is this particularly hard to appreciate. Buoyed by unprecedented pressure in demand – to say nothing of the tumult of lockdown – scientists and corporates across the planet have begun embracing all I4.0 has to offer. It goes without saying that this trend could have revolutionary consequences for manufacturers and consumers alike, offering cost savings for the former and specialised treatments for the latter. Even so, the same old challenges persist, posing significant problems for anyone planning on embracing I4.0 in earnest.


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