The Coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the benefits of working remotely utilizing new and existing technologies to monitor and manage operations from a distance, whether a few meters away on the factory floor, or on the other side of the world.
While many forward-thinking businesses had already embraced the concepts behind remote working, the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0, there is no doubt that Covid-19 has increased the speed of uptake in many sectors and shown the real benefits of this way of working to the most skeptical of observers.