Juergen Maier’s manifesto states that in the move to robotics and autonomous manufacturing, the prize will be the creation of a net 175,000 ­industry jobs Times photographer James GlossopThe loss of hundreds of thousands of industrial jobs in the automation of manufacturing can be turned into a net gain in employment, but only if the government acts quickly, a leading industrialist has warned. Juergen Maier said that Britain must embrace and fund what is being called “Industry 4.0”, or the fourth industrial revolution. Today Mr Maier, UK chief executive of Siemens, the German industrial giant, and the government’s unofficial Industry 4.0 tsar, will launch Made Smarter, his manifesto for bringing British industry into the 21st century. It states that in the move to robotics and autonomous manufacturing, the use of artificial intelligence, data analytics and augmented reality, the prize will be the creation of a net 175,000 or more industry jobs. His report…

Source: The Times October 30, 2017 00:00 UTC