New Delhi, Sept. 30 -- For decades, the factory floor has been dominated by proprietary automation systems that are closed, specialised, and tied to single manufacturers. While this legacy approach was once found to be highly effective, it has now become a bottleneck in an era defined by rapid technological change, especially with the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI). As India treads on the path to becoming a global manufacturing powerhouse, the traditional model of industrial automation is giving way to a new paradigm - open automation.

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