Manufacturing Magazine May 2015 | Page 20

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According PwC ’ s 18th Annual Global CEO Survey , s . Furthermore , the top three technology priorities for industrial manufacturing CEOs are mobility ( 73 percent ), cybersecurity ( 72 percent ) and data mining and analysis ( 70 percent ).
CEOs prioritising the strategic importance of mobile technologies are driving a revolution in manufacturing today . Designing mobility into new production strategies , processes and procedures is bringing greater accuracy and speed to production centres . Augmenting existing processes with mobility is delivering solid efficiency gains . The net result is greater communication , collaboration and responsiveness to customer-driven deadlines and delivery dates than has been possible before . Manufacturers are staying away from BYOD on the shop floor due to security , scalability and support challenges . Instead , the focus is on how to standardize industrial-grade mobile devices including tablets designed for manufacturing environments .
1 . Integrating mobile CRM systems with distributed

‘ 81 percent of CEOs see mobile technologies as being strategically important for their enterprise ’

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