Industry 4.0 Shifts from Buzzword to Reality, Says Hampleton Partners’ M&A Report | Virtual-Strategy Magazine
Hampleton’s Industry 4.0 M&A Market Report records more than 600 deals in 2018, up from 513 in 2017. The analysis reveals that the highest level of interest lies in AI technologies with context information, digital threads (linking data through the lifecycle of a product and its communication with other cyber-physical systems) and digital twin solutions (digital replications of a physical body, e.g. a machine).