Insights from BCC Research

The month of September marks not only a return to school and regular work hours (of course both of those things look differently in the age of COVID19), but September is also a time when many countries celebrate World Engineers’ Day.

Space exploration can help us solve the problems we face on Earth, such as resource and population pressures and shrinking energy supplies, and provide opportunities for environmental protection, scientific advances, new manufacturing and production processes and space tourism and settlement.

Any projects that deal with space are by nature complex and non-linear. It was because of this that space mining started out as an exciting adventure in 2007 and came to a seemingly disappointing close in 2017.

The world of engineering is vast and constantly evolving. The new age of digital enabled manufacturing, known as Industry 4.0 is arriving in the next few years. Despite the importance of the presence of autonomous manufacturing methods, we shouldn’t turn a blind eye to the industry trends in the traditional engineering markets.