The world of industrial automation is undergoing a major transformation. Advanced computation and communications technologies have reached such a level of maturity that machine manufacturers are making dramatic changes in the way they design their products.
A major shift from dedicated mechanisms to mechatronic, or cyber-physical, systems means that manufacturers and their customers are no longer constrained by the mechanical design of a machine.
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