This research service covers key technology trends in manufacturing technologies. Applications enabled by new manufacturing methods and automation technologies that are bound to have high impact in the near-term and medium-term is profiled in the research service. Key technology trends and its impact on the industry; adoption factors; stakeholder activities and roadmap are captured in the research service. The main technologies covered in this report include: composite manufacturing technologies; micro-manufacturing; fiber and disk laser; mobile system for logistics; multi-material joining technologies; 3D machine vision; collaborative robots; and additive manufacturing.