How industrial hyperautomation could transcend buzzword status - Smart Futures

On the face of it, it's difficult to see why the idea of hyperautomation is especially relevant to industrial automation as it exists in the real world. But Neil Ballinger, general manager EMEA of replacement, reconditioned and obsolete automation parts EU Automation, believes there's an opportunity for early adopter businesses to outpace the rest. There are two worlds of automation. One is the conservative, day-to-day, pick-and-place, realm, where countless businesses still play. Here, the idea of automating a process with a robot or collecting some data from a machine to perform advanced analytics is still quite radical.