Today’s factories are more Minority Report than Dickens novel. The real and cyber worlds are merging, thanks to automation, connectivity, Big Data, and screen technology.
“The manufacturing environment of 25 years ago is not the same as what you walk into today,” says Deanna Postlethwaite, director of global product management for STANLEY Engineered Fastening’s Assembly Technologies product line in Cleveland, OH. “The environments have been transformed from ‘dark and dirty’ to very technology-driven ones focused on consistency, quality, and safety.”(…)
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