Covid-19 has changed society’s relation with technology, altering our lifestyles, our businesses, and bringing in a more digitized world. The moot point now is to find out how technology might help companies to come out of this crisis stronger.

Industry’s historic trend has been towards a cost-cutting, margin-boosting offshoring process but the coronavirus pandemic and concomitant supply-chain problems give us a chance to reshore and reindustrialize Spain and Europe. In this relocation process a technological partner like GMV is crucial, inputting the most cutting-edge solutions to help the business setup to compete in the new markets and spearhead innovation. Industry’s progress is always technology driven, picking up on the best ideas from other sectors. Robotization and artificial intelligence have really come into their own in this juncture, allowing manufacturing to continue despite constraints on mobility and on-site worker availability.

We at GMV are working with industrial and collaborative robotics as well as autonomous systems to provide new ways of working that favor automation of the least value-adding processes like packaging, assembling or other routine operations or activities that represent a hazard for workers like bolting and screwing, sealing or handling, among others. We also boast a wealth of experience in developing technology for automating quality controls, detection of flaws of all types, product classification, metrology and predictive maintenance, using artificial-vision and data-analysis technology, allowing industry to cut costs and boost customer satisfaction. To explain in greater detail GMV’s technological ideas for levering change and transformation in the industrial sector we have drawn up a document jointly with IT Digital Media Group and drawing on the assessments of Pablo González, manager of the artificial intelligence section of GMV’s Secure e-Solutions sector. The document analyzes industry’s current challenges and explains our projects for driving this sector.