WMF Global Manufacturing Report

This report is the culmination of a world-wide survey of industry leaders to understand the direction of manufacturing and the challenges that may evolve. The report includes trends in advanced manufacturing and ten recommendations for manufacturers to keep them competitive for the next ten years.

The World Manufacturing Forum promotes innovation and development in the manufacturing sector, with the fundamental goal of improving competitiveness in all nations through dialogue and cooperation among the manufacturing sector’s key players. The goals are to support and influence national and international industrial agendas, providing a framework through which top-level companies, governments, academic institutions and social organizations can meet and exchange opinions, acting as a catalyst for finding innovative solutions to major global challenges and The World Manufacturing Report is supported by an international, high-level group of experts and published yearly outlining the current state of manufacturing in numbers, societal megatrends and manufacturing challenges. It is aimed at discovering what actions are needed in the journey of achieving future-oriented development.