Category: COVID-19
COVID-19 – How Much Will Manufacturing Output Contract in 2020?
After an exhaustive effort, we have finalized our assessment of the impact COVID-19 has had on manufacturing output around the world. In this insight I...
COVID-19: Changing the Face of Retail and Fulfilment Automation Strategies
The internet has most likely never been more important to us in our daily lives than it has during the COVID-19 lockdown. For many of...
Post Covid-19. Looking Forward: What Does The Future Hold For The Commercial Vehicle Sector?
Recent pictures coming out of Delhi portray a city transformed. Renowned for having the dirtiest air in the world, the total lockdown in India has...
Will COVID-19 PLM Product Trials Lead to Boost for Design Tools and the Next Generation of Unicorns?
Given the scale to which COVID-19 has impacted both businesses and individuals, it is unsurprising to see a multitude of corporations finding ways to help....
The Forklift Truck Market Now and Moving Forward
Our post-COVID-19 neutral scenario (we posit 3 scenarios – positive, neutral and negative) sees global forklift shipments in 2020 growing by just 1.4%, as compared...
Re-shoring, Robotics, Automation and Globalisation. Likely Impacts on Industrial Strategies of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Manufacturing and Globalisation. Are we standing at a crossroads? In 2020, the world changed. The Coronavirus pandemic has had such an impact on societies and...
China Manufacturing Output in 2020 Amidst a Global Pandemic – Chasing the Forecast
How quickly things change. About this time last week, I had just finished putting (electronic) pen to paper describing Interact Analysis’ position on how we...
COVID-19 – How Will Global Manufacturing Output be Impacted?
Our latest Insight presents some interesting, and perhaps mildly cheering, predictions for the global manufacturing sector post COVID-19. The article takes the following issues into...
COVID-19 Could Force Quicker Adoption of New Predictive Maintenance Service Models
The methods for performing predictive maintenance on motor driven systems are evolving. As these methods evolve, so should the business model of service providers offering...