Supply chain managers offer Top 7 manufacturing technology predictions
In a new white paper from IHS Markit, manufacturing technology analysts were asked to provide their informed predictions for the global manufacturing technology market in 2017.
After a disappointing 2016 in automation sales, declining revenues for many equipment suppliers and investment uncertainties in numerous end markets, vendors in industrial automation are hoping for a brighter 2017.
“With changing market conditions filtering down from the macro level to technology adoption, there’s a number of predictions we may assume,” says Mark Watson, senior research manager, manufacturing technology for IHS Markit, London.