Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chains

Enabling more resilient, sustainable and inclusive manufacturing ecosystems and supply chains.

Transforming manufacturing industries and supply chains to drive innovation and responsible growth

The Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chains accelerates responsible industry transformation by bringing together the world’s foremost multistakeholder manufacturing and supply chains community to exchange best practices, develop new insights and scale cross-industry collaborations.

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Lighthouses

Our initiatives on advanced manufacturing and supply chains

Our initiatives are advancing innovation, resilience and sustainability across global production and supply systems.

The Global Lighthouse Network globe
The Global Lighthouse Network

This community of manufacturers shows leadership in using Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies to transform factories, value chains and business models, for compelling financial and operational returns.

Industry Net Zero Accelerator windmill
Industry Net Zero Accelerator

Supporting industries to accelerate their decarbonization journey to achieve Net Zero emissions by or before 2050.

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Frontline Talent of the Future

A global community of private and public leaders committed to advancing societal and economic outcomes by leveraging solutions for attraction, skilling, and retention of manufacturing talent.

Discover Lumina

Lumina is an AI-enabled intelligence platform for industrial transformation. Built on eight years of the Global Lighthouse Network (GLN), it connects audited evidence and peer experience into decision intelligence that is evidence-based, contextual and focused on execution.

Our impact

We work with partners to transform manufacturing and supply chains in ways that support responsible growth and long-term competitiveness.

Global Lighthouse Network: Transforming advanced manufacturing
Global Lighthouse Network: Transforming advanced manufacturing

238 factories are now engaged in the network, implementing advanced manufacturing technologies and boosting productivity, sustainability and resilient supply chains.

Reducing the carbon footprint of the manufacturing industry through data sharing
Reducing the carbon footprint of the manufacturing industry through data sharing

We are fostering collaboration to develop technical solutions and demonstrate how CO2 emissions data can be exchanged along supply networks.

Join us in shaping the future of advanced manufacturing

We believe that progress happens by bringing people together. People from all walks of life, who have the drive and the influence to make a positive change. Be part of that change and join our community.

World Economic Forum Centres

The world is confronted with a range of unprecedented challenges, and it's crucial for businesses, governments, and civil society to work together to find common solutions and take decisive action. 


Through its Centres, the Forum integrates public-private efforts to achieve greater impact.