Will Coronavirus force manufacturers to enhance automation and digitalisation?

摘要

Jan Zhang reports that COVID-19 is forcing manufacturers to rely more on automation and digitalisation for long-term operations to reduce the financial impact from epidemics and other potential economic challenges. The COVID-19 outbreak is becoming a global stress test. As the outbreak subsides in China, there are some major short- and long-term effects the Chinese manufacturing industry is feeling, which will carry over to other countries.