Focus on supply and industry 4.0 vision key for manufacturers

Responding to the April Manufacturing PMI, Simon Jonsson, Head of Industrial Products at KPMG UK, said:

“The sentiment among manufacturers remains positive, despite the challenges that they face becoming ever more complex as supply chains are disrupted and the spectre of inflation is foremost in everybody’s minds - businesses and consumers alike. 

“These figures demonstrate strong resilience and an underlying drive to solve problems.  The challenge for manufacturers is to ensure continuity of supply in these very challenging times.  The opportunity continues to be how they innovate their industry 4.0 vision, making big data work hard on the factory floor.”   

ENDS.

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