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Quantum computing and industrial automation: A revolution in the making

Automation Mag

emerged with process control systems, robotics and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems in the 1970s through the 1990s. For example, quantum computing could positively impact industrial performance by helping to solve heady problems like optimizing logistics in a larger-scale network or supply chain.

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Automation mergers and acquisitions and capital markets analysis: Q4 2021

Control Engineering

Sverica , a private equity investment firm, acquired a majority position in ACC, a systems integrator specializing in process control, manufacturing intelligence and cyber security & industrial networking. A total of 19 automation transactions were made in the fourth quarter of 2021. Courtesy: Bundy Group. Learn more. Learn more.

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Is Industry 4.0, smart manufacturing working for you?

Control Engineering

This includes the use of modular production lines, collaborative robots (cobots), and reconfigurable manufacturing systems, allowing companies to adjust operations quickly and efficiently. technologies have enabled a shift from reactive process to predictive and prescriptive ones. Additionally, Industry 4.0 In general, Industry 5.0

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Back In Action: An MCMT Special

Dinesh Mishra

PEB manufacturing is also another industry which is witnessing a lot of investments due to the increase in demand for warehousing requirements and improvement of logistics industry. Smart machines and robotics will handle more of the industrial work especially where human intervention would be seen as more dangerous to deploy.