TTI MarketEye Weekly Update
March Purchasing Managers Indices March PMI Leading Indicators have been released by IHS Markit and the Institute for Supply Management: With the exception of the U.S. most countries’ PMIs showed manufacturing activity to be contracting or at least experiencing minimal growth (Chart 1). On a 3/12 growth basis key world PMIs are contracting (Chart 2). […]
5G Market Set to Boom – But Clarity is Needed, IHS Markit Says
LONDON–As the first commercial deployments of 5G start to appear, the stage is set for consumers finally to find out what the powerful next-generation mobile standard promises can bring: an ambitious and far-reaching technological advance that transforms virtually all aspects of human activity—how we experience life, conduct business, create goods, and build societies. In its […]
Scalability of intelligent automation technologies directly linked to financial performance, finds KPMG survey
According to KPMG International’s new “Easing the pressure points: the state of intelligent automation” global survey, enterprises are not scaling intelligent automation (IA) technologies [artificial intelligence (AI), advanced analytics, and robotic process automation (RPA)] fast enough to meet desired objectives and returns. However, those organizations that are scaling IA technologies are seeing strong financial performance. […]
SCOOPstudio Roundtable – Robots, Cobots and SMT – APEX 2019
Whilst robotics play an increasing role in manual assembly they have not yet arrived on to SMT lines in any meaningful way. As a contract manufacturer, Mathieu Kury, Regional Director of Business Development in the Americas for Asteelflash seems ideally qualified to comment, and along with robotics and automation expert, Stan Earley, Vice President, Engineering […]