With the combination of the COVID-19 pandemic, global supply chain issues, the Great Resignation and rising inflation, Maryland’s manufacturing industry has been managing a confluence of complex challenges that will forever transform the ways that business is done. According to Mike Galiazzo, president of the Regional Manufacturing Institute of Maryland, technology and the transformation to what is known as industry 4.0 offers solutions to many of these issues by reducing the amount of time it takes to get a product to market and offering new and more efficient ways to get work done.