Business Briefs
The MRO December 2019 issue includes a feature entitled “Business Briefs” with a focus on Canadian Manufacturing companies.
Canada – Agricultural Machinery and Equipment
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.
Ontario’s Dual Challenge
Report entitled Better, Faster, Stronger: Maximizing the benefits of automation for Ontario’s firms and people by the Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship
Half of Canadian jobs will be impacted by automation in next 10 years
Automation will likely affect over half of Canadian jobs in the next decade.
We Built That
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.
A Robot in Every Factory
The $230-million bid to help automate Ontario’s manufacturing sector