Global Technology – March 2014

Next, let's focus on this month's most important advances in technology, starting with a key breakthrough in network security.

In the near future, products and the plants that produce them will both be "intelligent." Products moving along a production line will know where they are, which steps they have already completed, and what still needs to happen in order for them to become finished products.

Production facilities will coordinate their work steps and exchange information with one another. There will be no need for technici.....