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“ And I think we will see some more of these innovative technologies such as AI move into manufacturing . I don ’ t think we have really seen a wide-scale use of 5G as a communications media inside factories yet . But I think we ’ ll see much faster networks and much more flexible network solutions such as 5G . I think we ' ll see this happening quicker and quicker . Reflecting on our own development of our own solutions , the speed of it is quite amazing . If I just look over the last two or three years and what ' s coming , one minute we ' re talking about a trend , the next minute we ' ve got the technology , and it really is happening at pace . Whereas before , I think people would have looked at five years and gone , ‘ yeah , you know , there ' s going to be a bit of change .’ Now I think there ' s going to be a significant change .
“ It ' s different in different sectors , of course , aerospace and automotive have always lead the way in the deployment of technology , but I think we ' ll start to see much greater uptake in other sectors like food and beverage , for instance , and maybe in sectors that have much greater legislation around them , and therefore to some degree , have a bit more conservative approach to their adoption of technologies ,” concludes Keogh .
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