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The buzz: Manufacturing. Manufacturers are pushing automated processes into overdrive to survive in the global marketplace. As this evolution spawns new jobs demanding specialized skills best performed by robots, will the factory workforce need humans? The experts speak. Mike Yost, MESA International: \u201cGovernmental initiatives, like Germany\u2019s \u2018Industry 4.0\u2019 and US National Network for Manufacturing Innovation, are shining a light on the importance of advanced technologies in manufacturing, but we\u2019re still a long way away from putting the pieces together correctly.\u201d Kimberly Knickle, IDC: \u201cI was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy\u201d (Marie Curie). Jeff Jackson, Deloitte: \u201cEverything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler\u201d (Albert Einstein). Chuck Pharris, SAP: \u201cThe future of automation will be a shift from robots replacing humans in jobs to humans working beside robots.\u201d Join us for Manufacturing Trends: Automation in Overdrive \u2013 Part 2.