There was a notable blog recently in the Harvard Business Review on:

Software is to manufacturing what electricity was to manufacturing http://bit.ly/1B7uOT

...meaning that technology -- or the "digitization" of manufacturing -- will change how manufacturing processes occur so much that processes will be unrecognizable. It made me think.

I work for a NH-based company. We make software. The software manages chemical substance data -- for environmental compliance in supply chains.