72% of manufacturing enterprises predict their use of data analytics will substantially improve customer relationships and customer intelligence along the product life cycle.
86% of manufacturers surveyed expect to secure simultaneous gains from both lower costs and added revenue in the next five years.
35% of companies adopting Industry 4.0 expect revenue gains over 20% over the next five years.
Japan and Germany are the furthest along in digitizing internal operations and partnering across their value chains.
Data analytics and digital trust are the foundations of Industry 4.0.

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Five years ago, Oliver Steeds gave up his career as a successful investigative journalist to help save the oceans. To do that he must create interest in, and awareness of, the largely unexplored bodies of water that make up more than two-thirds of the surface of our planet. As a first foray into this, the 40-year-old father of two young children spent the last three years putting together the Nekton/XL Catlin Deep Ocean Survey, a massive month-long project in the Atlantic to take samples and document a baseline of life in the deep ocean, considered below 200 meters.

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You may not have played Fallout Shelter in quite a while, but the new PC version of the game is a lot of fun, and you may want to give it another look. Read about what’s been added to the game since launch.

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