Brainbelt Essay

Nowadays, many cities and regions developed so quickly and suddenly become worldwide influential areas. Some of them were even once called rustbelt, “areas that were former industrial citadels that had been hit hard by offshoring, suffered decline” (book). However, right now they were given a new name as “brainbelts”, the “centers of innovation and smart manufacturing” (book), which are also the hope for future business. All of the brainbelts have the following characteristics: “facing complex, multidiscipline and expensive challenges” (book) which are impossible to be confront by a single player; linked by a connector; mixed of focus and openness and so on.

Rather than focusing on traditional manufacturing, brainbelt develops a new method to realize new ideas, which is called smart manufacturing. Smart manufacturing is normally related with three key technologies: robotics, 3D printing and the Internet of Things. …show more content…
Comparing to decades ago people shared one television in a whole village, now almost everyone has a personal cell phone; once the bike was the most common transportation on road, now traffic jam which is caused by the excessive number of cars is one of the most severe problems in the world. “As the manufacturing tasks become more individualized and more flexible”, the traditional methods are no longer qualified to solve these challenges and smart manufacturing is brought up. Future tasks are not only individualized but also multidiscipline which required collaboration. Therefore, smart manufacturing also “offers the advantage of distributed networked machines to complete different tasks through collaboration”