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Doing the right things: New year’s resolutions for Aussie manufacturers

AU Manufacturing

A whitepaper published by Global Shop Solutions said manual processes act like “anchors” for businesses, slowing down production times and increasing the chances for error. Here are some of the things that could help business leaders in weathering the challenges that the new year has to offer: Learning to say no to manual processes.

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Will autotech ventures race east in 2024?

Robotics Business Review

Autotech promises unfulfilled In 2016, John Zimmer the co-founder and president of Lyft, wrote a 16-page whitepaper predicting that the majority of rides on his network would be autonomous by 2021. Last October, GM disclosed its billion-dollar purchase of the startup lost over $730 million during Q3 2023.

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How digital transformation powers the machine economy

Control Engineering

of physical assets when the freight carrier network is moving them. Bartfai-Walcott, Distributed Computing in the Edge, An Industry IoT Consortium Whitepaper, [link] [5] L. In the test drive, secure edge devices capture the real-time status (e.g., location, temperature, humidity, etc.) AbiEzzi, D. Michaud, and K.