After the disaster, time to rebuild.
As a measure for effective containment, the lockdown was inevitable, but it also closed down most industrial activity, and disrupted supply chains. Even as the industry was debating the benefits of digital transformation, the pandemic appears to have made the decision, achieving what the consultants failed to do. More automation, less dependence on manpower seems to be the emerging consensus, and no longer merely an option.
With the government now keen on resuming some economic activity in regions deemed safe, what are the things likely to change and what are takeaways from the crisis? Industrial Automation shares viewpoints of experts:
To say the world is passing through trying times is to state the obvious. Also evident is the fact that for too long the world has been ignoring the warning signs of environmental degradation fuelled by human excesses and greed. But this is no time for ifs and buts, nor recrimination. Instead, the crisis should be used as an opportunity to make the required course correction to make the world a safer place for all living beings, and the ecological balance, restored.
Industrial Automation invited a cross section of industry leaders to offer their views and possible course of action as a way forward from this situation, even as governments across the world and the people are trying to make sense from the still evolving scenario.
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