Austrian scale-up COPA-DATA, a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Innovators community, enables software-defined automation in industries such as pharmaceuticals, energy and infrastructure, automotive, manufacturing, process industries and food and beverage. Its 5,000 clients include AB InBev, ABB, BMW, Carlsberg, GE Vernova, GSK, Heineken, Merck, Microsoft and Novartis.
Software-Defined Automation (SDA) lets manufacturers reconfigure production systems rapidly and at lower costs and integrate emerging technologies such as AI, edge computing and digital twins without replacing hardware and scale operations through software platforms. It is rapidly becoming the foundation of the next era of industrial automation, shifting control to flexible software platforms running on servers or in the Cloud, says Stefan Reuther, a member of COPA-DATA’s executive board. “It is a trend that can’t be stopped.”
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