in the next two to three years . This impact is not however felt just through bleeding-edge tech .
“ Every day I talk and work together with customers to see how they can use common technology ,” says Sam Waes , Head of Smart Industries at Orange Business . “ Remote access , for example . It sounds like a very obvious thing , but if you talk from an OT and IT point of view , it can bring incredible transition and change to a factory .
“ People can work more flexibly , everything can be coordinated and organised better . It ’ s a lot easier to optimise your factory without needing people to constantly visit the factory floor . So this is also innovation .”
This innovation has been enabled by the rise of software-led manufacturing , according to Brian Zakrajsek , Smart Manufacturing Leader at Deloitte .
“ What software-led manufacturing boils down to is that manufacturers
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