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How Volkswagen was wooed

Canadian Manufacturing

And producing the batteries that power them requires a solid supply chain. More than eight million vehicles rolled off the assembly line of a Ford plant in St. Thomas between 1967 and its closure in 2011. .'” Volkswagen has sold cars in Canada for decades, but it has never made them here.

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Industry 4.0 assessment: Are you moving quickly enough?

Control Engineering

originated in 2011 — widely attributed to a German government strategy unveiled at that year’s Hannover Messe event. For example, artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) likely play a greater part in everyone’s day to day operations than we could have dreamed about in 2011. Broadly termed “Industry 4.0” Is it Industry 4.0