Nowadays, digitization is part of the business strategy in all organizations, regardless of the productive sector they belong to, it is the way in which an organization can remain competitive in the global economic ecosystem.
Manufacturing is one of the most relevant industries for Mexico's economic growth, the pandemic has driven its digitization and automation in recent years due to labor absenteeism, but the country is still lagging behind in the race of this innovation 4.0 and if it wants to remain a destination for industries, it must accelerate the march.
For this year, the Association of Manufacturing Technology (AMT), considers an investment in Mexico of several billion dollars, returning to pre-pandemic levels, but it is necessary to bet more on digital transformation, mainly SMEs, to move from the traditional and thus increase their productivity.
It is mandatory to accelerate the pace, we started a little late in the process of digital transformation in the country. Aligned with the World Economic Forum, we are considered a manufacturing champion, that is, today we are very competitive using traditional technologies and historically active methods, but the future of production is based on all the new digital smart technologies.
Manufacturing is an industry that necessarily requires issues related to demand management, data, IoT and advanced analytics for both structured and unstructured systems (Big Data, Databases and Datalakes), as well as automated processes with the help of Bots and digital platform components.
Our country must not only accelerate the adoption of digitalization in manufacturing, but also develop its own technology, as well as the workforce required in new operational and digital skills, an opportunity that opened up with this reality and will continue in the following years.
Price Waterhouse Cooper is estimating that digitization and intelligent automation in the manufacturing industry will contribute 14% ($15 billion) of global GDP by 3030.
In Mexico, to achieve a more assertive digital transformation, it is necessary to promote investment accompanied by public, industrial, education and science and technology policies.
The adoption by manufacturing companies about technological tools has been on the rise for a decade with the fourth industrial revolution, there are data that digitization in manufacturing is booming.
The international robotics community reports that, for example, the stock of robots including industrial, collaborative and mobile robots has tripled in the last decade, from just over one million robots in use in 2010 to 3 million in 2020.
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