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Phil Lewis, Senior Vice President of Solution Consulting, International, Infor Automation is complex – especially in the manufacturing industry. Will the automation trend continue to accelerate? Infor’s Phil Lewis looks at some examples of smart connected factories. The adoption of automation is one of the unexpected game-changers that the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated in manufacturing. The impact is nowhere more robust than on the shop floor. Manufacturers placed their factories in less-developed countries with low labor costs. They employed, and are still stuck with, a geographic footprint for production that was driven by labor arbitrage around the globe, rather than by factors such as proximity to customers or ecological considerations. In fact, supply chains expanded with goo...