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Intertech Plastics continuous investments in innovative technology prove the value of automation. The Denver-based injection molding company continues its effort to standardize which optimizes their packaging operation and increases efficiency in their distribution channels while lowering the bottom line.

This is the fifth consecutive year Intertech has invested in new technology by adding five new all-electric Toyo injection molding machines and two new Wittmann top-entry robots to their facilities. They also constructed an automation cell for customized lid-closing. These upgrades will minimize the number defects and ensure on-time delivery which gives customers the exact performance the expect each and every time.

Intertech Plastics President, Jim Kepler, shares the significance of being able to provide that reliability and consistency to their customers: If you are comfortable with your standing in this industry, you quickly become obsolete. Innovation is not limited to the production floor. Intertech is looking to do more with less from the front office to our loading docks, and everywhere in between.

DCL Logistics is also seeing remarkable enhancements from the installment of a direct-to-consumer automation system. The logistics leader chose Universal Robots because of their interchangeable ability so that they can customize to their customers needs and its flexibility to integrate well into their current workforce.

Packaging Digest shared detailed metrics from a case study on its impact to DCLs business. Results from the addition of Universal Robots UR10e cobot include: 500% efficiency increase, 50% labor savings, a three-month return on investment (ROI), and 100% order accuracy.

That efficiency allows DCL to lower the bottom line allows and offer lower prices to their customers. The robotic system can do what an entire team of five people would in do an entire day within two hours, says Chief Revenue Officer, Brian Tu. We can lower pricing by as much as 40% which we pass on to our customers. Our accuracy has increased from 99.5 percent to a hundred percent while the robots been in productions.

With plans to add more robots to each of these operations, companies will have to invest in automation as the competition thrives on optimizes efficiency to provide better offerings to their customers.

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Business optimization is the subtle art of producing better results faster, with fewer errors and lower costs. Today, automation is integral to this process. By removing the complexity of application delivery, low-code development brings business automation solutions to enterprise clients at record speed. No-code development goes a step further, reducing the provisioning of business tools needed to streamline work to simple drag-and-drop configurations.

Both these application development approaches offer significant advantages to modern business. They are already widespread in the enterprise environment, and their adoption is still increasing. Gartner predicts that by 2023, every other medium to large enterprise will have adopted a low-code application platform. However, the proliferation of low-code automated business process management systems (BPM) exposes new and significant vulnerabilities.

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The low-code approach simplifies application development by replacing hand-coding with reusable components that can be stacked together via a drag-and-drop interface. Instead of coding every single feature and workflow, developers use ready-made elements to avoid duplicate work and shorten the application delivery time. Apart from time savings, low-code platforms bring another vital benefit to the table they dont usually require highly-specialized skills to build maintainable enterprise-grade applications.

Zero-code or no-code solutions also use visual development to speed up the delivery of front-end business applications. They take away the coding part entirely, enabling business users with no IT expertise to quickly assemble the needed tools by drag-and-dropping the interface components.

Automated low-/zero-code BPM solutions empower enterprises to accelerate business processes without engaging expert IT resources. While these platforms help reduce IT strain, decrease costs, and increase productivity, they come with their own set of challenges.

Small enterprises typically use hundreds of apps day to day, which can snowball to thousands at giant corporations. Considering these numbers, seamless integration of a low-code BPM platform with a host of third-party apps and services may pose a significant challenge.

Low-code automation solutions support built-in integration options, ranging from exposing SOAP web services and REST APIs to implementing connectors. On the one hand, the wide choice of integration methods and data mapping formats ensures flexibility. On the other, it adds a level of complexity to the integration process that in-house developers may be unable to resolve, in which case, business process management consulting might be required.

Some companies may choose to go with an alternative solution to avoid cumbersome integration by getting an all-in-one low-code software replacement. They hope that setting up a new system consolidating all required business process management functions will cause less friction than interoperating dozens of different platforms. Unfortunately, sacrificing the existing infrastructure to use a single end-to-end enterprise platform is often the case of going out of the frying pan into the fire.

One of the most significant drawbacks of the one to replace them all approach apart from the massive time and money investment it entails is vendor lock-in. Wooed by moderate costs of adoption, enterprises often find themselves entrapped in dramatic price increases once they need to buy more licenses or add sophisticated options (see the customization point).

Besides, low-code platform vendors often dont provide access to their source code, making it impossible for buyers to reuse or extend it independently. To avoid getting stuck with the same provider for good and bad, its essential to look for a solution that offers readable code and transferable workflows. Again, an experienced integrator may provide invaluable support in this task.

The critical promise of low-code and no-code platforms is, as their name suggests, to eliminate manual code. But when reality kicks in, their business logic may buckle under the weight of specific business requirements.

Out-of-the-box, low-code solutions can only deliver as many use cases as they have been programmed to handle. When it comes to unique scenarios, for example, when you suddenly need to scale the system following a company acquisition or quickly roll out a new and complex workflow, these platforms often prove ineffectual. Fiddling with their business logic until you find the right configuration if it exists may become counterproductive. Sometimes, writing a piece of code appears to be the easiest, fastest and most cost-effective way out.

For 59% of enterprises, security remains the greatest challenge when adopting low-code and no-code automation solutions. Without visibility into the systems inner workings, enterprises usually have to rely on third-party security tools to run scans and audits, never knowing whats going on underneath. Ensuring security is particularly demanding for platforms deployed in the clients data centers or hosting sites. In SaaS solutions, the vendor is responsible for updates and patches, while the client only needs to take care of the data.

Connecting low-/no-code platforms to existing systems and data sources also presents potential security risks. The same goes for adding custom code. However, possibly the most prominent security fault of low-code systems is the limited visibility into the tools created by the users. As the low-code approach democratizes business app creation, it puts much freedom into non-technical employees hands without involving the IT department. While this enables greater agility, it also results in less control and oversight over business apps, which forces enterprises to set up rigorous security policies and ensure their strict compliance.

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Low-code/no-code technology has reached the point where it is mature enough to power enterprise-grade business-critical applications. By replacing ground-up coding with easily configurable tools and components, it accelerates business workflows, empowers non-technical users, and eliminates process bottlenecks.

Despite certain challenges, demonstrated above, in many cases low-code development can be more effective and secure than the traditional manual-coded methods. However, to live up to the expectations, low-code and no-code platforms require skillful implementation and integration, with optimized data flows.

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Dublin, March 02, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Automation and Robotics Market in Industrial, Enterprise, Military, and Consumer Segments by Type, Components, Hardware, Software, and Services 2021 - 2026" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

This report evaluates the global and regional robotics marketplace including the technologies, companies, and solutions for robots in the industrial, enterprise, military, and consumer segments. The report includes detailed forecasts for robotics by robot type, components, capabilities, solutions, and connectivity for 2021 to 2026.

With the substantial amount of capital behind global industrial automation, the industrial robotics sector will continue a healthy growth trajectory, which is supported by many qualitative and quantitative benefits including cost reduction, improved quality, increased production, and improved workplace health and safety.

In the wake of COVID-19, and with the now democrat-controlled executive and legislative branches pushing for minimum wage increase, we see a major push for further automation and robotics within the United States service sector. This is because many businesses see repetitive tasks as performed with great safety, less expense, and reduced probability for service disruption with robotics rather than reliance upon human workers.

Robotics is increasingly used to improve enterprise, industrial, and military automation. In addition, robots are finding their way into more consumer use cases as the general public's concerns fade and acceptance grows in terms of benefits versus risks. While many consumer applications continue to be largely lifestyle-oriented, enterprise, industrial, and military organizations utilize both land-based and aerial robots are used for various repetitive, tedious, and/or dangerous tasks. Adoption and usage are anticipated to rapidly increase with improvements to artificial intelligence, robotic form factors, and fitness for use, cloud computing, and related business models, such as robotics as a service.

The next decade will witness substantial influence of AI upon robotics. The next generation of robotics will include many pre-integrated AI technologies such as machine vision, voice and speech recognition, tactile sensors, and gesture controls. AI has enabled consumer robots to learn while performing a variety of tasks including cleaning, controlling home appliances, reading, performing butler services, and many more. It is anticipated that further improvement in AI and related technologies such as cognitive computing and sensor fusion, will enable consumer robots to take on increasingly more difficult tasks.

Longer-term, the publisher sees many robotics and automation solutions involving multiple AI types as well as integration across other key areas such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and data analytics. The combination of AI and the IoT has the potential to dramatically accelerate the benefits of robotics for consumer, enterprise, industrial, and government market segments.

Leading industry verticals are beginning to see improved operational efficiency through the intelligent combination of AI and robotics. The long-term prospect for these technologies is that they will become embedded in many different other technologies and provide autonomous decision-making on behalf of humans, both directly, and indirectly through many processes, products, and services.

This report also includes analysis with forecasts covering AI technology and systems by type, use case, application, and industry vertical. Forecasts also cover each major market sector including consumer, enterprise, industrial, and government.

Components included in forecasts include: Controllers, Robotic Arms, End Effectors, Drive Systems, Sensors, Power Supply, Motors, Grippers, Transducers, Hydraulic Cylinders, Wheels, Linear Actuators, Processors, and ICs.

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Key Topics Covered:

1 Executive Summary

2 Robotics Market Overview2.1 Robotics Market Segmentation2.2 Enterprise Robotics Market2.3 Industrial Robotics Market2.4 Military Robotics Market2.5 Consumer Robotics Market

3 Robotics and Automation Technology Trends3.1 Artificial Intelligence and Robotics3.2 Convergence of AI and IoT in Robotics3.3 Teleoperation and Cloud Robotics3.4 Digital Twins Technology and Robotics3.5 Fifth Generation Wireless, Beyond 5G and Robotics3.6 Cloud Business Models and Robotics as a Service3.7 Human and Robotics Cooperation

4 Robotics and Automation in Business Transformation4.1 Emerging Opportunity Areas4.2 Moving Beyond the Factory Environment4.3 Robotics as a Service and the Outcome Based Economy

5 Robotics Companies and Solutions5.1 Americas5.2 2G Engineering5.3 3D Robotics5.4 Adept Technology Inc.5.5 Aethon Inc.5.6 Alphabet, Inc. (Google)5.7 Amazon Robotics5.8 Anki Inc.5.9 Apex Automation and Robotics5.10 Auris Surgical Robotics Inc.5.11 Autonomous Solutions, Inc.5.12 Axium Inc.5.13 Canvas Technology5.14 Carbon Robotics5.15 Carbon3D5.16 Celera Motion5.17 Clearpath Robotics5.18 Construction Robotics5.19 CyPhy Works5.20 Denso Wave Inc.5.21 Ekso Bionics5.22 Ellison Technologies Inc.5.23 Energid Technologies5.24 Epson Robots5.25 Fetch Robotics5.26 Ghost Robotics LLC5.27 Greensea Systems Inc.5.28 Hypertherm Inc.5.29 IAM Robotics5.30 inVia Robotics5.31 iRobot5.32 Intuitive Surgical, Inc.5.33 Jibo5.34 Kairos Autonomi5.35 Knightscope5.36 Kraken Sonar Systems Inc.5.37 Lockheed Martin5.38 Locus Robotics5.39 Micromo5.40 Modbot Inc.5.41 Octopuz Inc.5.42 Omnicell Inc.5.43 PrecisionHawk5.44 ReWalk Robotics5.45 RobotLAB Inc.5.46 Rockwell Automation Inc.5.47 Rokid Inc.5.48 SapientX Inc.5.49 Savioke5.50 Seegrid5.51 Sharp Electronics Corp.5.52 SkySpecs5.53 Soft Robotics Inc.5.54 Softweb Solutions Inc.5.55 SRI International5.56 Staubli5.57 Stryker (MAKO Surgical)5.58 Suitable Technologies5.59 SynTouch5.60 Teradyne Inc.5.61 Titan Medical5.62 TM Robotics5.63 TORC Robotics5.64 Transcend Robotics5.65 ULC Robotics Inc.5.66 Universal Robotics5.67 Vecna Technologies5.68 Verb Surgical5.69 VEX Robotics5.70 VGo Communications5.71 Vigilant Robots5.72 Virtual Incision Corporation5.73 Willrich Precision Instrument Co.5.74 World Drone Academy5.75 Wynright (Daifuku Co Ltd)5.76 Yaskawa Motoman5.77 Asia-Pacific5.78 Aurotek Corp.5.79 Cyberdyne5.80 Daihen Corp.5.81 DJI5.82 FANUC Robotics5.83 Foxconn Technology Group5.84 GreyOrange5.85 Hanson Robotics Ltd.5.86 Kawasaki5.87 Mitsubishi Electric Corp.5.88 Nachi Fujikoshi Corp.5.89 Pari Robotics5.90 Qihan Technology Co.5.91 Samsung5.92 Seven Dreamers Laboratories Inc.5.93 Siasun Robot and Automation Co Ltd.5.94 SoftBank Robotics Corporation5.95 Sony5.96 Toyota5.97 WaveBot5.98 Yamaha Robotics5.99 Europe5.100 ABB Robotics5.101 AMS RBR5.102 Blue Ocean Robotics ApS5.103 Comau Robotics5.104 Delphi Automotive5.105 Kuka Robotics5.106 Milvus Robotics5.107 Mobile Industrial Robots ApS5.108 Open Bionics5.109 Reis Robotics5.110 Roboplan5.111 Robosoft Services Robots5.112 Schunk5.113 Siemens5.114 Soil Machine Dynamics Ltd.5.115 SSI Schaefer5.116 Starship Technologies5.117 Staubli International AG5.118 Swisslog5.119 Teun5.120 Touch Bionics5.121 Universal Robots A/S5.122 Visual Components Oy5.123 ZenRobotics

6.0 Global Robotics Forecast 2021 - 20266.1 Global Robotics Market 2021 - 20266.2 Global Markets Robotics by Category 2021 - 2026

7.0 Industrial Robotics Market 2021 - 2026

8.0 Consumer Robotics Market 2021 - 2026

9.0 Enterprise Robotics Market 2021 - 2026

10.0 Military and Government Robotics Market 2021 - 2026

11.0 Conclusions and Recommendations

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This is the second transcript of a three-part series on Automation Trends in Food Processing and Packaging. If you would prefer to watch the video of these discussions, choose link below:

Robotics video (20 minutes)

Remote Access video (20 minutes)

vFAT (Virtual Factory Acceptance Test) video (13 minutes)

David Greenfield:

Another technology area that's seen a lot of increased attention because of COVID is remote access. And here we're talking about the ability to remotely access plant floor equipment, or specific devices and systems, either by in-house engineers, or operators, or even third parties such as OEMs and system integrators. And like cobots, this technology has been developing very quickly over the past several years now, but it's really seen an accelerated level of interest due to COVID in the past year.

Glen, you've been very focused on the trends around remote access between OEMs and food package goods manufacturers. How would you say things have been changing here in the past few years?

Glen Long:

It's near and dear to me because I come from that side of the business. And the technology to add remote access to equipment has been around for years. But the willingness on the two sides to allow that to happen has not really been there. So, all of a sudden enter COVID, and very quickly it becomes a necessity versus, say, whether the capability existed, or whether it was wanted or not. So, tremendous adoption in different types of remote access. And I think when you talk about remote access, you think about three different areas. Certainly, there's a service aspect of it, and I believe that's where a lot of the companies were first thinking to be able to access a machine remotely for the purpose of fault diagnostics, or program fault diagnostics, and so forth. But the other two elements that we see a lot now are training. We went with the OpX Leadership Network and our Industry Relations Committee on sort of a field trip to Emerson last year, and that was certainly something that they were a proponent of. And it's possible now to conduct training in a way that we've never been able to do it before through augmented reality and virtual reality. There are training elements that can be conducted with staff remotely that just were never possible before. So, I think that's a second element of remote access.

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And I think the third one is predictive maintenance, and the ability now to get into a piece of equipment remotely to see what's happening with motors, and drives, and temperatures, and loads, and things like that, is just a tremendous leap forward. It's been around in other industries for some time, and there's a trickle-down effect. Certainly, the cost of the equipment has a lot to do with the ability, or the viability, of that kind of predictive technology. But remote access now has become a needed technology, and there are a couple of really interesting things that are going on. First of all, the OpX Leadership Network published a document on best practices for allowing that connectivity between the CPG and the OEM supplier. That's always been a roadblock. Again, that's coming down, but there a number of different ways that you can look to see how that can be done safely. And it's really up to a collaboration between the OEM and the CPG as to how they go about that.

The CPG can turn that on and turn that off as needed, but that's a big element of making it happen. We've also seen instances in the service realm where we're now, out of necessity, there are trained professionals on one side being able to walk less skilled employees of CPGs through very complex tasks. So, that not only saves money in terms of that service element, but there's that training element involved as well. And for the CPG in the time of need, as we've seen over the last nine months or so, that up time. Being able to keep that equipment up and running as necessary. So, there's tremendous benefit that we've seen in the short-term. There's been more progress in the last year with this kind of thing than there has been in the 10 years prior to this point. So, you're seeing an accelerated adoption, and tremendous benefit on both sides. It's beneficial to the OEM to be able to conserve that limited resource, and not spend so much time traveling back and forth between places.Service, training and predictive maintenance are the three main areas of remote access use.

And for the CPG, there's cost savings, there's speed involved in fault diagnostics, and remediation. So, just tremendous benefits on both sides. I think all of those things are playing into what you see, and it's, again, trickle-down effect. A lot of the suppliers of this type of equipment are seeing this happen, and they're being pushed to adopt it more rapidly. So, you're seeing not only innovation, but adoption in this technology.

In September of 2020, PMMI's Business Intelligence group published a study on trends in the adoption of remote access. So, that's a great reference document to see some of the different things people are doing, and how it's being deployed because I think it's interesting to see the innovation, and the imagination, in some of the suppliers, and how that technology is being deployed.

To download the PMMI Business Intelligence, Trends in Adoption of Remote Access report, click here.

Bryan Griffen:

I think beyond just the great applications that Glen mentioned, which really justified the need and the cost for doing these technologies, we also have to look at how we do remote access to make sure that it's safe, it's secure, that we avoid cybersecurity issues. And OMAC, the Organization for Machine Automation and Control, is just now releasing a new best practice document on how to implement remote access technologies in factories. There are a few key subjects from the guide that merit some comment here. Perhaps the biggest component to a successful remote access solution is not necessarily the technology, but the people that are involved. One of the biggest things that we have seen over the years as we've tried to implement remote access is the conflict between IT and OT. IT is all about cybersecurity, and maintaining control of those networks, and they do a fantastic job of it. But OT is all about we need to manufacture right now. We can't stop for doing a patch, for example, because stopping right now to do that patch means we throw away the batch, which could be hundreds of thousands of dollars of lost product.

So, there needs to be a point where those two factors come together and discuss what are the needs of both sides. Understand what each side of that equation needs in order to successfully implement remote access tools. Then once all of the players are on the right page, and communicating well, then they can turn to the task of developing the remote access solution, which type of remote access they want to use, assessing the current situation within the factory, and what the needs would be from a technology standpoint, and then getting everything to play well together. But it all starts really with that human aspect of the solution, not the technical one.

Tom Egan:

Yeah, and for me I'm going to take off from what Bryan said there for a little bit, still with that OMAC report, which I agree. I thought was very good. Some real success ideas for implementing remote access. I learned a new term there when that IT/OT piece, first time that I saw it in a report anyway, which was CIA and AIC. And Bryan, I hope I have this right. But the CIA element was that the IT group looks at confidentiality, integrity, and then availability, meaning the availability of whatever the resource is. Whereas the OT group looks at availability first. I just thought that that was an easy statement to look at and say, "They're looking at the same problem. They're looking at it through two different facets of the same problem. And so that's why until that discussion takes place, sometimes we have the conflict." So, I think that was a good takeaway on that piece.

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The other overarching part for me on the remote access, Dave, is that I just don't believe that there's an option. Glen alluded to the point that there's a benefit for both groups now. There always has been. Perhaps the pandemic has really pushed that to the fore because of the restrictions on travel, for example. But the benefit is that the cost of downtime is just too high. It's too high for the company that's trying to make a product to get into the marketplace to sell, and it's too high for an OEM that's trying to support the equipment and has to get a human resource to the location. So, if you're able to at least go in, and take a look at whatever the issue might be on a production line, or even to be monitoring that in the ultimate as a way of accessing, and utilizing beneficially that remote access, it's that understanding that just downtime is just too, too expensive now. What can we do to reduce that timeframe? Remote access is one approach that will absolutely work.

Glen Long:

Dave, I think we've always looked at this as the OEM and the CPG being the two sides of the remote access question, and I think for the CPG, in and of themselves, there's tremendous capability for being able to remotely access equipment in different facilities, or for supervisors that are in big plants that have the ability to be notified, even outside the plant, to be notified that something in the line is not functioning correctly, or it's not functioning at its optimum efficiency. I've been with CPG employees outside the plants on visits when they're notified via their cell phone that something in the line is dropping below a certain point. And they literally excuse themselves to be able to go, and get ahold of the plant, and address it. So, there's definitely that OEM and CPG connection. And it's that remote access part, but for the plants that have multiple lines and multiple facilities just within their own organizations there's tremendous capability and promise in the development in the machinery world for that data to be gathered and then output. So, remote access, I think, has two connotations. There's the outside connotation where you're talking about the OEM, and the CPG.

But then the inside connotation where it's being used within a big group. So, you're seeing tremendous appreciation for the ability to do it, and finding ways that it can be done safely, and just beginning to realize the benefit because there's a lot of data that's available there. And the question is now how do you gather it, and how do you use it properly?

David Greenfield:

Yeah, I think to both of your points what we've been talking about here in just the past couple of minutes about is those cultural issues, organizational issues, and bottom-line cost issues. And I can remember when I first started writing about remote access technologies several years ago now, that the big factor was the cost issues, the bottom-line benefits to end users who adopted this. But that didn't seem to be able to overcome the cultural and organizational issues that existed in these companies - and have for years for obvious reasons. But it's interesting that what's happened in the past year has forced industry's hand to rethink how things have to operate. And so, I think at this point they're starting to see those bottom-line benefits that have been talked about forever. They're being able to see - like not having the amount of downtime, or virtually no downtime, the reduced cost of travel, and having to send someone to these sites all the time, or to go physically check out these various facilities, or pieces of equipment that they don't have to travel there to do now.

I think all of that it that falls to the bottom line, and they see that it's kind of coming full circle back around again now that we've gotten over some of those cultural and organizational issues that have always existed. So, that's been an interesting development for sure.

Augmented Reality Augmented reality is on the rise in predictive maintenance and training usage.

David Greenfield:

So, one other technology area associated with remote access that's seen a big boost in this past year has been augmented reality for preventative maintenance. And much of what I had seen in terms of application examples over the past few years had almost always been in the discreet manufacturing industries, but I've been seeing more and more references to it in food and beverage. For example, through Cisco's project with the dairy farmers of America that we covered recently. Are any of you hearing much about the use of augmented reality for preventative maintenance and/or training, as you mentioned Glen, with food and beverage, and CPG producers?

Read Cisco Aids Dairy Farmers of Americas Digital Transformation, click here.

Glen Long:

Yeah. There was an article in this month's ProFood World magazine about using it for training for sanitation, which is a very specialized thing. And through the use of augmented reality, and virtual reality technology, they were able to walk a lesser skilled worker through the very complex process of sanitizing a particular piece of equipment. So, surely that technology is out there. I think it's also very helpful for operators and maintenance people in food plants to be able to deploy that in terms of maintenance and repair, even without the OEM being involved. There's a tremendous amount of information from OEMs on simple things, like threading film, for example. I've seen it used for that when they have such turnover in the food plants with the operators for the equipment. Even what you would consider relatively simple tasks are difficult because the training isn't there to pass that knowledge from worker to worker. And then with the turnover, this technology allows even a lower skilled worker the ability to walk through a step-by-step process, and get that job, or that task accomplished. So, for sure it's becoming more widely available as the price drops, and the technologies advance.

Tom Egan:

And Dave, the article that you reference about Cisco I was reading for the first time, and I really liked what Cisco was looking at, which is they have a technology, and there is a need. How do they partner with organizations to do that? I thought the use where Cisco said, "We're going to give you, or provide at a very reduced cost, a full suite of tools, so that the workers, the managers, and the corporate can really understand just what's happening with those. Excellent example. It involved all parts of the organization. The individuals that are down on the plant floor are getting information to help them do their job. The managers are then getting information from what the workforce is doing in terms of handling any issues, or doing a solution, as Glen mentioned, about the sanitation work. They're understanding what can improve that particular project from the workforce. And then on a corporate basis, just being able to manage overall. I thought it was a great example where a whole suite of tools was brought in.

Read Will AR Change the Game for Packaging Operations? Click here.

Bryan Griffen:

I think one of the other interesting things that we're seeing as a use of these sorts of augmented reality and remote access being combined, is where we can take a technician who is the premier technician on a particular piece of equipment, but maybe tied up at somebody else's site. And we can send another technician to the site that's in question, and that technician can connect remotely with the premier technician, and get online, real time assistance for solving whatever the problem is. And so effectively you've turned your standard technicians all into the same level and quality as your premier technicians by having that connectivity.

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London, March 02, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to a new market research report titled, Industrial Automation Market by Component (Plant-level Controls, Enterprise-level Controls, Plant Instrumentation), Mode of Automation (Semi-automatic, Fully-automatic), and End User (Oil & Gas, Automotive, Food & Beverage) - Global Forecast to 2027, the industrial automation market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 9.3% from 2020 to 2027 to reach $306.2 billion by 2027 from $164.2 billion in 2020.

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Rising investments in the transformation of conventional manufacturing facilities by installing digitized systems are a major driving factor for the growth of the industrial automation market. Transforming conventional production facilities involves implementing automated systems for asset & workforce management and production processes. The shift towards self-reliant IoT sensors is expected to drive the growth of the industrial automation market over the forecast period as they can easily manage a network of physical objects with high efficiency. Several companies from the end-use industries are investing heavily in automation technologies to lower costs and enhance productivity. According to the International Federation of Robotics, the automotive industry had 105,000 robot installations in 2019, followed by the electronics industry with 88,000 new robots. These trends, coupled with the increasing awareness regarding Industry 4.0, are expected to support the growth of the industrial automation market.

The Impact of COVID-19 on the Industrial Automation Market

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a moderate impact on the market due to the shutting down of industrial operations and manufacturing facilities worldwide. The manufacturing and processing industries faced huge losses in the first two quarters of 2020, limiting the demand for robotics and automated solutions from manufacturing sectors worldwide. However, with the reopening of production facilities and the resumption of industrial operations, the market has started recovering in 2021 due to the demand to automate these facilities. This high demand is attributed to the need for minimizing human contact to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus. Heavily impacted end-use industries such as oil & gas, automotive, machinery manufacturing, mining & metals, and electronics are expected to witness slow recovery due to the consumers limited spending and high focus on only the most essential commodities.

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Key Findings in the Industrial Automation Market Report

Based on component, the plant-level controls segment is expected to register the highest CAGR over the forecast period due to the growing utilization of SCADA and PLC in industrial operations for optimizing human and machine resources. The features offered by SCADA systems help enterprises enhance processing, packaging, quality standards, and reporting of the operating processes details. SCADA systems detect abnormal parameters or alarms and automatically respond with programmed control functions. PLCs govern motors, drives, conveyor belts, actuators, sensors, and other field-level components. The growing adoption of Industry 4.0 and the IIoT is expected to drive the demand for PLCs to control field devices.

Based on mode of automation, the semi-automatic segment held the larger market share in the past due to limited awareness regarding automation technologies. Semi-automatic systems involve both manual interventions as well as machine-aided assemblies. These systems are the broadest part of the assembly and require a human operator both at the start and the end of the process. Semi-automatic systems require help from a human operator in tasks such as manually loading and unloading the entire system. The growing demand for fully-automated facilities is attributed to the increasing adoption of robots and automation solutions in the manufacturing sector.

Based on end user, the automotive segment is expected to record the highest growth rate from 2020 to 2027 due to the high adoption of various industrial robots and car manufacturing control solutions by prominent automotive players. Industry players such as KUKA AG and FANUC Corporation have developed and offered automotive application-specific robotic solutions to be deployed in car manufacturing facilities. For instance, KUKA AG offers robots under its KR QUANTEC series to cater to various requirements of the automotive industry. Additionally, the automotive sector in the developed countries has installed automation technologies in the past decade and is experiencing improved operational efficiency and performance at the enterprise level. These trends, coupled with the growing availability of application-specific solutions, are influencing smaller automobile manufacturers to adopt industrial automation solutions.

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This research report analyzes major geographies and provides a comprehensive analysis for North America (U.S. and Canada), Europe (U.K., Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Sweden, and Rest of Europe), Asia-Pacific (China, India, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Rest of Asia-Pacific), Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, and Rest of Latin America), and the Middle East & Africa (UAE, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and Rest of the Middle East & Africa). In 2020, Asia-Pacific region commanded the largest share of the global industrial automation market, followed by Europe and North America. The high share of the Asia-Pacific market is attributed to high technical awareness regarding the usage of robotics in China, Japan, and Singapore. The Asian manufacturing sector has robust production capabilities, which further fuels the demand for industrial automation solutions in Asia-Pacific. APAC countries are investing heavily in developing robotics and automation products, boosting the markets growth at a high pace. For instance, under the New Robot Strategy in Japan, the budget for robotics-related activities was increased to $351 million in 2019 to make the country an innovation hub for robotics.

Leading players in the industrial automation market are heavily investing in R&D to develop advanced and highly efficient automation solutions for catering to the future requirements of end-use industries. Companies are emphasizing product innovation and new product development to gain larger market shares. Moreover, several companies are partnering and collaborating with other industry players, governments, and automation associations to work on the development of innovative automation solutions. For instance, in October 2020, Rockwell Automation, Inc. extended its partnership with Microsoft Corporation to simplify industrial transformation. The companies combined their expertise in the industrial and IT markets to help industrial customers increase agility via cloud-based automation solutions.

The key players operating in the industrial automation market include ABB Group (Switzerland), Rockwell Automation (U.S.), Siemens AG (Germany), Yaskawa Electric Corporation (Japan), Schneider Electric (France), Yokogawa Electric Corporation (Japan), KUKA AG (Germany), Emerson Electric (U.S.), Fanuc (Japan), Honeywell International (U.S.), Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (Japan), OMRON Corporation (Japan), Advantech Co., Ltd. (Taiwan), and Fuji Electric Co., Ltd. (Japan) among others.

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The automation of accounting and bookkeeping services will become more and more prevalent. This means that the way most firms provide value to their clients now is not the way they will provide value in 10 or even 5 years.

Many firms use automation tools to perform, at least partially, the services they provide for clients. That's not a problem, unless your firm's income relies primarily on a service that can be automated.

It becomes a problem when your clients look for ways to shrink their overhead. They ask questions like, "What are we outsourcing?" and "What can we do ourselves?" Fully automated accounting software is cheaper than a fully human accountancy firm, and always will be, since digital tools scale in a way that humans cannot. Competing on price is a dead-end road.

The only way to compete with automation is to concede, let technology take the number-crunching and grunt work you have historically done, which has not been the real value your firm provides. The value is the acquired knowledge, skills, and expertise, applied to each client's particular needs.

To future-proof your firm, you have to identify these strengths and specialties. It is only then that you can build core services on them and offer your clients value that can't be replaced by algorithms and automations.

So, how do you get started? You don't need to make up fluffy marketing messages. Your firm has valuable expertise, and your clients need it.

Here are the steps to take:

1. Identify firm strengths and skills.

2. Define your firm's specialties.

3. Update core services.

4. Demonstrate the right value to clients.

Your firm's strengths and skills are not vague. They are specific, practical areas of developed knowledge and skills. They are acquired through education and experience. They create expertise, which allows you to identify patterns, to find answers, to see potential problems, to create (and test) strategies, to quickly find and apply solutions, to track results, and know which results are worth tracking.

Start at the individual level in your firm. What are your own strengths and skills? Then expand to other members of your firm. Look for acquired knowledge: educational focus, industry background, topical specialization, certifications, ongoing learning and professional development.

Look for second-nature skills: these are often a combination of soft and hard skills. For example, a firm member may be excellent at making clients comfortable and asking questions to gain insights which leads to better financial analysis.

Once you have a basic inventory, look at potential combinations: If one firm member has industry expertise in manufacturing and another firm member has great skills in forensic accounting, you have a specialization.

Firm specialties are based on the combinations of strengths and skills from your firm, as in the example above. They are also based on who your clients are and what your clients need. Your job is to define the specialties.

It's a bit like cooking. You know what the ingredients are and you know the flavors and textures. You also analyze the ingredients, specifically which ones will work together or don't fit. Don't use what is not relevant. Focus on a few solid specialties and you can expand later.

Once you have defined your firm's specialties, you need to update or create new core services related to these specialties. Stay focused on increasing the services which cannot be outsourced to machines. You don't need to drop accounting and bookkeeping,you do need to roll these services into a core offering that includes a specialized value, such as high-level analysis, industry tax expertise, or financial advisory services specific to your client verticals.

Many firms use content to reach and win clients. That's great, unless the content your firm shares can be found from 22 other sources with a simple Google search. When your core services can be automated and your "expert content" can be duplicated, your firm is not future-proofed.

Focus on creating content that shares insights, not facts. Facts are findable, if you know where to look. Insights--drawn from strengths, and applied as specialties--are unique, detailed, specific, and immensely valuable to the clients you serve.

Mine your expertise and share it. Then, as you work with clients, track the results that come from the core, expertise-based services. Quantify what you save clients in dollars, hours and problems.

Imagine the impact of a statement like, "Last year, we saved over $500,000 for our clients through our outsourced CFO services." Automation is not an enemy, if your firm is ready to offer the greater value of trustworthy expertise, strengths and specialties with clients.

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Employers fearful of being replaced by automation in the workplace can breathe a sigh of relief robots dont have all the skills employees need.

As many as 10 million employees lost their jobs during the pandemic, according to the Labor Department. Many of those employees (40%) were replaced by new technology, according to a survey by MindEdge Learning, a Massachusetts-based education company.

While its estimated that 20 million jobs will become automated by 2030, companies cant survive on automation alone. Survey respondents agreed that employee soft skills like creative thinking (33%), communication (27%), complex problem-solving (26%), IT/network information security (26%) and decision-making (25%) are still important to business success.

Automation and robotics have been reshaping the workplace for several years, but tighter budgets and the risk of exposure during the pandemic have led companies to accelerate their adoption of these technologies, said Frank Connolly, director of research at MindEdge Learning, in a release. At the same time, employers are realizing that despite advancements in technology, automation cant replace many skills that are essentially human and these are the skills that can help workers future-proof their careers.

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To keep employees on the cutting edge of new workplace technologies, employers need to invest in professional development. The most popular forums for upskilling include internal training and retraining programs (48%) and online courses (44%), the survey says. Online training is ideal during the pandemic, but 32% of managers say they have limited access to these resources, while 11% say their company isnt prioritizing training. That could cost companies in the long run, Connolly says.

In this new normal, it is critical that companies find ways to upskill and retrain their employees, Connolly says. Efficient and effective professional development courses have become a business necessity.

Many employees are taking professional development into their own hands; LinkedIn Learning saw a 130% increase in class participation during the pandemic. The networking giant made its classes available for free to help professionals cope with the pandemic; courses cover everything from hard skills like coding and Microsoft products, to soft skills such as communication and leadership.

If youre thinking about the long-term health of your organization, its a good idea to leverage learning to have an immediate impact on productivity, and bring people together, said Mordy Golding, director of content strategy for English-language at LinkedIn Learning, in a previous report.

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The difference between robotics and automation is almost nonexistent and yet has a huge difference in everything from trade shows, marketing, publications to academic conferences and journals. This week, the difference was expressed as an opportunity in the Dear Colleague Letter below from Professor Ken Goldberg, CITRIS CPAR and UC Berkeley, who suggested that students whose papers were rejected from ICRA, revise them for CASE, the Conference on Automation Science and Engineering. This opportunity was expressed beautifully in the title quote from Professor Raja Chatila, ex President of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and current President of IEEE Global Society on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems. One robot on Mars is robotics, ten robots on Mars is automation.

Dear Colleagues,

Over 2000 papers were declined by ICRA today, including many that can beeffectively revised for another conference such as IEEE CASE (deadline 15March).

IEEE CASE, the annual Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, isa major IEEE conference that is one of three fully-supported IEEEconferences in our field (with ICRA and IROS).

In 2021 CASE will be held 23-27 August. It will be hybrid, with a livecomponent in Lyon France and an online component:https://case2021.sciencesconf.org/

IEEE CASE was founded in 2006 so is smaller but growing quickly. Theacceptance rate for the last CASE was about 56%, higher than ICRA 2021(48%), IROS, or RSS. I consider this a feature not a bug: it is anexcellent venue for exploratory and novel projects.

IEEE CASE continues the classic conference model of featuring a 10-15 minoral presentation of each paper in contrast to poster sessions. This isparticularly exciting for students, who get the valuable experience oflecturing and fielding questions in front of an audience of peers.

IEEE CASE also has a tradition of spotlighting papers nominated for awardssuch as Best Paper, Best Student Paper, etc. Each nominated paper ispresented in special single session track on Day 1, where everyone at theconference attends and there is a lively Q&A led by judges.

IEEE CASE emphasizes Automation. Automation is very closely related toRobotics. There is substantial overlap, but Automation emphasizesefficiency, robustness, durability, safety, cost effectiveness. Automationalso includes topics such as optimization and applications such astransportation and mfg. I like how RAS President Raj Chatila summed up therelationship 10 years ago: One robot on Mars is robotics, ten robots onMars is automation.

In China there are over 100 university departmentsfocused on Automation. The impact factor for the IEEE Transactions onAutomation Science and Engineering (T-ASE) this year is on par with T-ROand higher than IJRR. Automation is important to put robotics intopractice.

Ken Goldberg

Professor, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

William S. Floyd Jr. Distinguished Chair in Engineering, UC Berkeley

Director, CITRIS People and Robots Lab

Core Team Member & Robotics Industry Futurist

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More than outright destroying jobs, automation is changing employment in ways that will weigh on workers.

The big picture: Right now, we should be less worried about robots taking human jobs than people in low-skilled positions being forced to work like robots.

What's happening: In a report released late last week about the post-COVID-19 labor force, McKinsey predicted 45 million U.S. workers would be displaced by automation by the end of the decade, up from 37 million projected before the pandemic.

Yes, but: McKinsey notes that despite the displacements, the total number of jobs is projected to increase.

The catch: McKinsey finds that while the total number of jobs will increase, nearly all net job growth over the next decade is projected to be in high-wage occupations" which is not good news for workers with low job skills.

Zoom in: To better understand the effect of automation on employees in low-skilled jobs, Brynjolfsson and Matt Beane of the University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) have been carrying out detailed studies of one field that has experienced tremendous employment growth recently: e-commerce warehouses.

Details: Some of their early findings underscore why simply introducing robots especially in jobs that involve a lot of unpredictable, fine manual work doesn't instantly lead to wholesale job destruction.

Between the lines: But what Beane and Brynjolfsson have discovered during detailed interviews with e-commerce employees and visits to warehouses is that humans themselves are already working in more automated ways.

What to watch: How quickly industrial robots are developed that can handle the uncertainty and fine manual work of e-commerce warehouses as well as human laborers.

The bottom line: Without better government support, U.S. employees with low job skills increasingly face a future of working like a robot if at all.

Go deeper: The robo-job apocalypse is being delayed

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Test automation plays a critical role in software delivery today. There are emerging open-source tools, native mobile tools, andnew binariesforweb apps. AI and high-volume automation are beginning to enter the mainstream as well.

Luckily, to make sense of all this, keep up with the latest trends, and help you avoid making test automation mistakes, there'sa vibrant community of test automation pros who regularly share tips and insights on Twitter.

Here are 30voices in test automation you can find on Twitter who actually tweet about test toolingplenty of agile testing, andperformance testing andengineering. Whether you're getting up to speed on test automation basics, looking for the latest resources, or wondering how AI will affect your job as a test automation engineer, these are the folks to follow.

Staff software engineer, Sauce Labs

@bromann

Besides heading up the open-source program office at Sauce Labs, Bromann writes and speaks about emerging W3C standards to drive web browsers.

Subject matter expert,BrowserStack

@TheWebTester

An automation specialist, de Kleijnworks out of Utrecht,Netherlands, andcovers the intersection of performance, functional testing, and reporting. His recent coverage includes how to build both test reporting and real-time performance dashboards.

Selenium core contributor

@jimevansmusic

Evans is a speaker at Automation Guild 2021. Follow him to learn the latest goings-on within the Selenium community. At publication, Evans had a swath of political tweets in his stream, but scroll down. The political tweets may make you think, butstay for the test automation.

Solutions architect,Sauce Labs

@TitusFortner

Fortner coined the term Dom-2-Database tests. In his day job, he performs automation readiness assessments, training, and intervention for teams building browser-driving test automation. He focuses on making the tests run quickly,doing parallelization, andeliminating "flaky"tests and test environments.

Senior software development engineer in test (SDET), Utopia Solutions

@DarkArtsWizard

Grossman tweets about algorithms and user interface elements that are hard to simulate or automate. The technologies he covers are relatively broad, but generally involve writing code in a true programming language such as Java, Python, or the .NETfamily.

Engineering leader, Standard Chartered Bank

@upgundecha

With a mashup of links to webinars, free resources, memes, and short videos about mechanical automation and robots, Gundecha's tweet stream provides information and education. While some of the memes are pure fun (a goose and a puppy are friends), others address how to build products for accessibility or create mindmaps. You can see more of him atSeleniumSummit21.

Independent tester

@imalittletester

Pip is the author of the waiter library, a code library thatmanages wait times for web browsers.She brings her sense of humor to the automation community through cartoons that you can find on her website.Pip also provides tutorials for Selenium using Java and TestNg.

Software engineer, Facebook

@shs96c

A former "thought-worker" who moved to Google to work on test automation tools, Stewart is now at Facebook. He created Webdriver, a browser-driving standard that's now a W3C specification. He is also an active organizer for SeleniumConf. Stewartbrings his full self to his tweets, as aUK expat in the United Statesand an insightful one, at that.

Distinguished engineer,Cypress

@bahmutov

Aself-described "JavaScript Ninja," Bahmutov has contributed to numerous open-source projects. Lately he has been tweeting about building an IDE for JavaScript testing, along with visual regression testing, as opposed to pure-text-asserts.

Quality engineering manager,Zoopla

@mcruzdrake

Drake is the co-organizer of the Cypress UK Community Groupon Meetup. Shetweets about API testing, accessibility, and what not to automate. She also does more long-form blogging.

Agile engineering coach,Raiffeisen Bank International

@the_agile_carpenter

Groetz references himself on Twitter as the TestAutomationBuster.He is the founder of the Vienna TestAutomation Meetup, which, thanks to the global pandemic, is open to anyone.His recent tweets include a discussion of the Agile Engineering Maturity Model as well as testing microservices.

QA lead,Slido

@filip_hric

From his GitHub contributions to webinars to reviews of front-end test tools,Hric is trying to advance the conversation about front-end test automation by people who specialize in it. That includes creating courses on Udemy and Learn2Code, at a cost of dozens of dollars, not hundreds or thousands.

Software engineer,Microsoft

@aslushnikov

Lushnikovworks out ofSt. Petersburg, Russia.His career path has traversed Google and Facebook; these daysheposts abouttesting tools, including Playwright and Puppeteer.

CEO and founder, Automate the Planet

@angelovstanton

Stanton is a former executive with Telerik, a development tools provider, who went on to train, write, and speak abouttest automation. His current company makes test automation tools. Most of hisexamples use a Microsoft tech stack.

Partner,Neuri Consulting LLP

@gojkoadzic

Adzic was the initial (2011) winner of the Most Influential Agile Test Professional Person award. He is known for his books, especially Specification by Example.He is the winner of the 2016 European Software Testing Outstanding Achievement Award. Adzic's recent explorations are in the world of serverless technologies.

Senior program manager,Microsoft

@nthonychu

Formerly a cloud developer advocate at Microsoft, Chu is currently the seniorprogram manager forAzure functions and Azure static web applications. If you'd like to learn about the platform that test automation swims inespecially from a Microsoft perspectivethen you might want to follow Chu.

Builder ofChrome dev tools, Google

@jack_franklin

Franklin works for Google, working on Chrome dev tools and on Puppeteer and web tooling. His blog runs the gamut from process tips such ascode review to shortcuts to remap the keyboard in Windows.You will find Franklin bringingscripting to life in his podcast,@FishandScripts.

Chief evangelist,Perfecto

@ek121268

Kinsbruneris the author of a book titled Continuous Testing for DevOps Professionals.He has other books and blogposts that are designed to help the modern testing community.

Owner,Spec Solutions

@gasparnagy

Creator of theSpecflow open-source BDD frameworkfor .NET, Nagyis a self-proclaimed BDD addict. Heviews test and quality as a team sport; his recent work focuses on "whole-team quality."

BDD advocate, Smartbear

@sebrose

Perhaps best known for his conference speaking and BDD coaching, Rose co-wrote Discovery: Explore Behaviour Using Exampleswith Nagy.

Leader and primary contributor,Appium

@jlipps

Lipps participates in conferencesincludingAutomation Guild and advocates for leveraging Appium 2.0 for mobile testing at scale.

Founder, Bizmonger

@Bizmonger

Functional programming, along with actual video examples of how programs are created, are two things we dont see enough of in software. Nimrod streams himself live creating his passion projects, including DevOps for mobile applications using Xamarin.

Test automation consultant, House of Test Consulting

@simonbernerdev

Berneris an active presenter through the Ministry of Test and a supporter of Agile Testing Days.His online courses can help get you started in toolingor raise the bar on your career.

Founder,TestGuild

@joecolantonio

Creator of the TestGuild conferences, Colantonioalso runs the TestTalks podcast, recently renamed the TestGuild Automation podcast. His tweet stream isthe place to go for information about what is happening in the world of software test automation.

Principal automation architect,Magenic

@pgrizzaffi

Grizzaffiis also an advisor for the STPCon testing conference. Hislatest interest is high-volume automated testing, whichadds randomization and massive scale to find problemsthat individuallycrafted tests will often miss.

Principal engineerforquality,Paylocity

@KristinJackvony

A prolific blogger at thinkingtester.com, Jackvony is willing to makeher experiences with test tooling public. In 2020, she reviewed a book a month abouttesting and delivery. If you'd like to read more but don't have the time, consider reading Kristins reviews. It'sa triple threat. First she'll limit the selection set to the best books, then provide great value for the time invested, and help you decide if you want to read more and pick it up for yourself.

Principal developer advocate,Applitools

@techgirl1908

Jones is the driving force behind as well as the director of Test Automation University.She provides training in Java, shares links that grow careers, and is the 2020 winner of the Most Influential Agile Professional Person award.

Site reliability engineer,Duffel

@a_bangser

Bangser combines technical prowess with an analytical, humanistic angle. She starts at the beginning, and moves very fast. It's worth trying to keep up.

Head of developer relations, Secure Code Warrior

@eviltester

A long-term member of the test community, Richardsonis a teacher of testing as well as an askeroftabooquestions with a sarcastic but helpful side.He has written several books, includingDear Evil Tester and Automating and Testing a REST API.

CTO, Digital Assured

@Jonathon_Wright

A TedX speaker on the topic of cognitive engineering,Wright is a host on the QALead podcast. Hetweets about the conferences he is attending, podcasts he is recording, books he is reading, and the other ways he is learning and growing.

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