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Antitrust: Heightening Expansion, Review, and Enforcement

Foley

The FTC is soliciting feedback to its proposed rule through its formal comment process. Manufacturers should evaluate whether to submit comments to the FTC if the proposed ban causes harm to their legitimate business. 15, 1993) ; Statements of Antitrust Enforcement Policy in Health Care (Aug.

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Is Industry 4.0, smart manufacturing working for you?

Control Engineering

This term was famously announced in 2011 at Hannover Fair as part of the German High-Tech Strategy, and since then it has taken hold across the world. When looking at manufacturing, several interactions make an industrial digital transformation more challenging than other industries.

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Integrating SQL databases and SCADA to maximize efficiency and reliability

Control Engineering

To help with this scalability problem while continuing to use some of the basic structures of the SQL database, software engineers developed NoSQL in 1998 and then NewSQL in 2011.