Machinery-intensive industries in Canada including agriculture, among others, account for 30% of Canada’s GDP and combined, these industries spent more than C$30 billion on machinery and equipment in 2016.
Report entitled Better, Faster, Stronger: Maximizing the benefits of automation for Ontario’s firms and people by the Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship
Automation will likely affect over half of Canadian jobs in the next decade.
Globe & Mail looks at five companies that make components for planes, trains and automobiles (and ships and spacecraft, too), and together employ more than 25,000 globally.
The $230-million bid to help automate Ontario’s manufacturing sector