The persistent nature of Covid-19's disruption on the manufacturing industry highlights a need, and an opportunity, to rethink business operations to be more adaptable to market dynamics...
Robin Fisher 9 Apr 2021
Sharlin details the positive aspects of 5G, its role in digital transformation, and how communications service providers can use it to properly connect with customers...
Imran Salie 26 Feb 2021
The unforeseen disruption experienced in 2020 has prompted food and beverage producers to future proof their businesses as far as is possible. While uncertainty seems set to continue for some time...
Phil Lewis 19 Feb 2021
When reflecting on the fourth industrial revolution, a number of things immediately spring to mind - for example, IoT, AI, and robots. Regrettably, little attention is given to individual employees and workers in this emerging industrial world, unless one is discussing the concerns related to potential job losses...
Lyndy van den Barselaar 14 Jan 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought on massive changes to the manufacturing industry, which has had to adapt to new operating models, an evolving consumer market, and disruptions in supply chain processes, all while keeping the workforce safe and healthy...
Mark Wilson 17 Dec 2020
Leading figures within sub-Saharan Africa's manufacturing sector will convene virtually at the Manufacturing Indaba 2020 to debate pressing issues impacting the region's industrial landscape...
The annual awards acknowledge those that are leading the way in the telecommunications and technology sectors in Africa. This year the winners were selected through an open public voting system...
This year's awards highlight and pay homage to those that are building a better and more inclusive digital world despite the challenges that have beset the planet throughout 2020...
Many thinkers, experts and science fiction writers have put pen to paper to speculate about the dystopian life that may arise from Artificial Intelligence (AI) becoming too "intelligent."...
Monde Mawasha 14 Sep 2020
Artificial intelligence (AI) and its ability to augment human workers is one of the most influential forces shaping the future of work. As AI adoption advances, the way organisations do their work is evolving...
Wessel Oosthuizen 30 Jul 2020
Is South Africa ready for the Fourth Industrial Revolution? Is Covid-19 accelerating the digital transformation journeys of South African businesses?
South Africa is lacking a sense of urgency when it comes to digital transformation...
In the pre-Covid-19 world, Industry 4.0 was driving automation and data exchange trends in manufacturing technologies and processes at an exponential rate. Now, Industry 4.0 has been accelerated even more...
As a mineral rich country, South Africa faces its own set of challenges as the sector gears up for digital transformation and the only way to overcome these challenges is to get smart and adapt...
Technology has the potential to fundamentally transform societies. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and broadband are becoming central to the societal developments around the world...
Donald Waigumbulizi 22 May 2020
In the run-up to the 23rd Prism Awards to be announced virtually on Friday, 15 May, we chatted to this year's cohort of 'young voices' about their fresh approach to the judging process...
Jessica Tennant 6 May 2020
Flexible film one of the primary packaging materials of choice for food manufacturers and other companies in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector. It is inexpensive, efficient to work with and available in a wide range of materials with diverse properties...
Issued by Pyrotec 4 May 2020
#LockdownLessons: Tanya Long, Chief Operating Officer, shares with us how the coronavirus has impacted The Argility Technology Group...
Evan-Lee Courie 19 Apr 2020
Technological advancements are taking place at an unprecedented speed and is disrupting almost every industry across the globe...
Audi, together with Ericsson, is taking the next step towards the production of the 5G...
In Africa, several developments are presenting opportunities for organisations that adopt Industry 4.0 technologies to capture significant market share and gain global relevance...
Baljeet Nagi 17 Feb 2020
With the World Bank forecasting economic growth in sub Saharan Africa at 3.6% for 2019-20, some of the world's fastest-growing economies are in Africa...
Pieter Bensch 12 Dec 2019
Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) is introducing a Bachelor of Engineering Technology in Materials Engineering in Polymer Technology degree, following several years of developmental workshops with Plastics SA and various other stakeholders...
Up to 18 million jobs need to be created annually just to absorb the new entrants each year. This is unprecedented globally and doesn't even include the unemployed and underemployed...
Leigh Andrews 12 Nov 2019
In the wake of Industry 4.0 there is no doubt that technology - both its advancements and shortcomings - is dictating the speed of change across the globe...
Rentia Austin 21 Oct 2019
LAWtrust has launched a new division focusing on cybersecurity services...
Industry 4.0 is changing the way we do business, particularly the traditional concept of workspace. Reputation Matters, a proudly African research agency, has been successfully working from a virtual office space since 2008 and shares five tips for acing it...
The technology-driven Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is changing the way the world lives, works and functions and 3D printing is a disruptive technology that will soon have a major impact on all business...
Issued by Optimize Agency 11 Oct 2019
A researcher at the University of the Free State, Ms Patience Mukwambo, wrote in a Fin24 article how higher education must do more than help graduates get jobs...
John Durr, Ehrlich Erasmus and Rudi Kimmie, Issued by TSIBA 10 Oct 2019
As South Africa gears itself up for the fourth industrial revolution, the purpose of education will need to evolve based on the needs of society through the realignment of school curriculum to support learners and educators...
Minister of the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams and Clayton Naidoo, general manager for Sub-Saharan Africa at Cisco, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) outlining key areas of cooperation for South Africa's digital future...
The significance and importance of keeping up technological advances is highly evident, particularly within the realm of tertiary education...
Issued by Perfect Word 3 Sep 2019
If you are not digital it will be very difficult to be competitive in industry, or in the buildings you produce. Because what you are building is here for the next 50 years, and it has to be green, smart and automated...
Taru Madangombe 3 Sep 2019
The launch of St Barnabas and UJ Metropolitan Mathematics is set to ignite a new level of hunger in the fields of Science, Technology and Mathematics...
Skills shortages and an ageing workforce is a global business dilemma. To overcome this, businesses need to look to the younger generations to find and retain the best skills and talent for continued business success...
2019 sees MTN Business bringing two events on the annual ICT calendar together. The MTN Business App of the Year Awards and IoT Conference & Awards...
The 20th annual Women in Business Conference on 16 August at the UCT Graduate School of Business will be bringing together industry leaders to explore how female disruptors can win in a world transformed by technology...
Issued by UCT Graduate School of Business 25 Jul 2019
What will the Africa of 2050 look like? Being only 31 years away, Africa's population is expected to double and there will be huge economic shifts...
With South Africa's unemployment rate reaching 27.6% in the first quarter of 2019, worryingly approaching a 15-year high, it is important for corporate South Africa to assist in creating a pool of skills that will not only address today's workforce requirements, but those of tomorrow...
Dineo Molefe 11 Jul 2019
In an industrial setting, Industry 4.0 is a term analysts use to describe the automation and data exchange used in manufacturing technologies...
Bez Sangari 5 Jul 2019
Shoes made from ocean plastics, packaging material made from mushrooms and a green partnership between Ford and Heinz to build car parts from tomato fibre are examples of the circular economy in action...
The country turned its attention to young people during Youth Month...
Collaboration across industry, public and private sector and among civil society will be crucial for driving Fourth Industrial Revolution progress...