Digital Transformation in Agricultural Machinery: AGCO Harvests More Value from IT
Like automotive firms, agricultural equipment maker AGCO is planting the seeds of transformation, implementing a common global IT infrastructure, more digital manufacturing processes, and an agile approach to IT service and development, reports Christopher Ludwig for automotiveIT International.
While the sensors and compute power remain as complex for autonomous commercial as they do for passenger vehicles, using self-driving tractors on a farm presents fewer obvious hurdles than driverless cars in a city. Predictive maintenance, meanwhile, is already becoming a feature for many types of industrial equipment, driven by the imperative to keep their users’ businesses running.
The supply chains for such firms are also increasingly digital, with software, sensors, and advanced automation providing opportunities to improve transparency, data analysis, and reduce errors.
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