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ABB and Rittal to drive digitalisation in industrial applications

ABB and Rittal to provide industrial grade edge data centre solutions for industrial customers who need to deploy robust IT capacity close to their operations.

Manufacturers outsourcing to plug skills gap

UK manufacturers are increasingly outsourcing critical areas of plant management in an attempt to plug a growing skills gap. That’s the experience of manufacturing specialist Leadec, at a time when the automotive sector alone is advertising up to 5,000 vacancies.

Industrial robot sales increase worldwide by 29%

Global sales of industrial robots reached the new record of 380,550 units in 2017 – an increase of 29 percent compared to the previous year (2016: 294,300 units).

Implementing Industry 4.0 today with Digital Enterprise solution

At the automatica 2018, Siemens will be demonstrating how machine builders and users can already benefit from Industry 4.0.

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