{"id":3080,"date":"2020-09-21T14:41:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T19:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mhisolutionsmag.com\/?p=3080"},"modified":"2020-12-11T15:03:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T21:03:41","slug":"transformation-age-preview-of-our-industrys-next-chapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mhisolutionsmag.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/21\/transformation-age-preview-of-our-industrys-next-chapter\/","title":{"rendered":"Transformation Age: Preview of Our Industry&#8217;s Next Chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mhisolutionsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/iStock-1130631324-1024x540.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3081\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mhisolutionsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/iStock-1130631324-1024x540.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mhisolutionsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/iStock-1130631324-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mhisolutionsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/iStock-1130631324-768x405.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mhisolutionsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/iStock-1130631324-1536x810.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mhisolutionsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/iStock-1130631324.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>By 2030, robotics and augmented reality will be in mainstream use for warehousing, manufacturing and distribution centers. Maritime shipping will be almost unrecognizable with ships that deploy artificial intelligence and use innovative, lighter-weight materials for faster, more efficient delivery of goods. And neurotechnology, the science of measuring brain function and translating the data into meaningful insights, will bring greater safety, productivity and learning to the workplace. The impacts of COVID-19 on supply chains will only accelerate these trends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of these scenarios (and more) are contained in the latest edition of MHI\u2019s future-looking Roadmap publications: \u201cTransformation Age: Shaping Your Future\u201d (available online at mhi.org\/transformationage). Produced in a three-year cycle, these reports examine the societal, corporate, global, economic and technological shifts that will impact the success of material handling, logistics and supply chain organizations over the next 10 to 20 years. They also offer strategies to help organizations prepare to meet this dynamic era at all levels\u2014from C-suite to operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen we released the first Roadmap in 2014, the predictions for trends and technologies to take root in 15 years happened much, much faster,\u201d said George Prest, MHI CEO. \u201cThat\u2019s why we added the MHI Annual Industry Report\u2014to serve as a yearly pulse check on the industry\u2019s progress toward those projections. Yet, because the technologies\u2019 sophistication and their impacts on future developments continually accelerated into our day-to-day reality far more quickly than anticipated, we decided to take a fresh look at the future every three years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That led to MHI producing a second Roadmap in 2017, and the third in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis new edition provides a view out to 2030\u2014and in a few areas out to 2040\u2014while also providing actionable information for a narrower timeframe outlook because some anticipated trends and technological developments will gain traction in the near-term,\u201d said Prest. \u201cThis report is also much broader in scope than previous editions. And, because of that, we\u2019ve modified the format to make it very user-friendly and&nbsp;accessible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of producing a printed document, the report is web-based, he said. \u201cThat allows readers to dive into the sections that are of particular interest or value to them, relative to where their business is currently and their vision of it for the future. We are also responding to our members\u2019 growing preferences for receiving information in a digital&nbsp;format.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhisolutions-digital.com\/mhiq\/0020_anniversary_edition\/MobilePagedArticle.action?articleId=1620100#articleId1620100\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MHI releases third edition in a series of forward-looking industry Roadmaps with \u201cTransformation Age: Shaping Your Future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":3081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,10,13],"tags":[1662,314,1658,433,34,434,1661,442,1902,1625,175,1659,1660],"class_list":["post-3080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-global-trends","category-industry-trends","category-technology","tag-augmented-realilty","tag-burchette-associates","tag-emmy-lou-j-burchette","tag-george-prest","tag-john-paxton","tag-mhi-annual-industry-report","tag-mhi-roadmap","tag-mhi-solutions","tag-mhi-solutions-magazine","tag-neurotechnology","tag-robotics","tag-shaping-your-future","tag-transformation-age"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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