The accelerating pace of electric vehicle adoption has changed the EV ecosystem and has resulted in a challenging EV infrastructure over the past few years. During the forecast period, different scenarios or business models are important to consider and understand the factors that are beneficial or harmful to the EV ecosystem. The EV charging ecosystem depends on four main dimensions – technology, penetration of electric vehicles, regulatory environments, and customer expectation.

The escalator cleaning machine market has been witnessing consistent growth over the last few years, and the growth is expected to continue during the forecast period. The growth of automation and robotics in commercial cleaning is reshaping the market, with rising adoption in shopping centers, malls, airports, public utilities, and other high-traffic areas. This professional equipment provides highly efficient cleaning across all sectors. With the increasing adoption of automation, end-users are significantly using technology for cleaning. The use of escalator cleaning machines can greatly reduce the time and manual labor required for cleaning. Moreover, it reduces the downtime for escalators significantly.

In the 1840s, the introduction of ether, a surgical anesthetic, made surgical procedures more common. Initially, general anesthesia was given through a device that covered the nose and mouth of the patient. The concern for aspiration of gastric content was not appreciated, and postoperative pneumonia became a common problem. Trendelenburg (1869) designed the first inflatable cuff, a thin rubber bag that was fitted over the end of a tracheostomy tube. It created a tight seal to prevent aspiration during anesthesia. As an alternate method for tracheostomy, Macewen (1880) suggested passing an oral tube into the trachea to relieve an obstruction. Later, anesthesiologist Franz Kuhn used metal tubes and preferred the oral route over tracheostomy and popularized orotracheal anesthesia.

The global educational toys market is growing at a CAGR of 8.11% and is expected to witness an incremental growth of $11.81 billion during the forecast period. The growth of the market is attributable to the rising demand for education with the help of playful learning so that children learn things easily and quickly. The recent trend towards Augmented Reality (AR) educational toys is likely to boost the demand for educational toys year-on-year. Moreover, the educational toys have short life cycle and requires continuous innovation and investment in R&D to remain competitive. Due to rapid growth forecasts the vendors are expected to face intense competition in terms of innovativeness and price.

Medication prescription is a formal communication method that physicians use to authorize a pharmacist to dispense prescription drugs or controlled substances to patients. For years, physicians have used hand-written prescriptions for communicating medication instructions to patients and documenting the drug requirements for pharmacists. Factors such as the rapidly expanding population and the growing need for health care services pose a significant challenge to the national healthcare systems worldwide. Also, the increasing use of medications to treat different ailments has resulted in a corresponding rise in the number of medication prescriptions and diversity in medication types.

Continuous learning requirements for students and professionals driven by sweeping trends over the past two decades due to globalization, talent migration, and consistent improvements in corporate competencies and individual talent grooming have increased the scope of e-learning. With rapid globalization, there has been increased mobility of human capital in industries, including tourism, trade, media, international relations, and science and technology. Therefore, there is a need to effectively acquire functional and vocational skills over a short period and in a cost-effective manner. While conventional learning and training methods cater to most needs, they are ineffective in meeting the dynamic learners’ requirements, especially in the rapidly expanding learner segment.

The global disposable gloves market is experiencing extremely high demand, supply shortages, competition for production lines, and higher production costs because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic across the world. Global players are unable to absorb all the resulting production cost increases due to factors like a hike in raw material cost, labor shortage, and more, thereby resulting in higher cost of the final products to customers.

Advances in technology have led to the development of several tools and machines used across industries. Power tools are outpacing traditional hand tools in the professional and residential segments due to the demand for efficiency. For example, the construction industry experiences high pressure to launch innovative tools that reduce human effort. The surge in the infrastructure and the construction market is a boon to the power tools market that will also enforce innovations in the future. The rise in manual labor costs and home improvement activities, and DIY has pushed the demand for user-friendly tools.

Coding & marking have remained an integral part of the product/commodity supply chain for years now. The overall technology itself has a crucial role to play in our daily lives, be it from the perspective of businesses, industries, or even consumers. The coding & marking process in simple terms involves the imprinting of information and data on products and packaging to enable an efficient track & trace process throughout the supply/distribution chain. This packaging could either be a primary or secondary form of packaging, depending on the product material to be coded. Similarly, the information or the data to be printed can vary as per product category. For instance, the coding & marking of food items such as fruit cakes can have information such as best before dates and bar codes for tracking it, while in the case of chemical fertilizers, the information related to the chemical may be highlighted more expansively.

Infectious diseases are the leading causes of morbidity and mortality. Healthcare facilities across the world are at significant risk of cross-contamination, which can lead to hospital-associated infections (HAIs) in patients. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that around four million patients acquire HAI annually, which leads to around 40,000 mortality cases in patients. However, several advancements in surface treating technologies can help reduce patient exposure to harmful microorganisms.