In a recent episode of our podcast, Machine Language, JONATHAN GROSS, managing director of Pemeco Consulting, shared the short- and long-term ways manufacturers can digitally respond to the pandemic

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Manufacturing AUTOMATION: COVID-19 is changing digital models really rapidly. How would you say that digital transformation is being necessitated by the pandemic? Jonathan Gross: Even before COVID-19, the concept of digital transformation was hot. McKinsey did a study pre-COVID-19 where they surveyed manufacturing business leaders, and those business leaders revealed that 70 per cent of their companies believe that Industry 4.0, -- this idea of intelligent, automated factories - was key to their future, but that same study also revealed that 85 per cent of business leaders still didn't have a plan in place.