The majority of participants were Chief Digital Officers or other senior executives with top-level responsibility in their company for industry 4.0 strategy and activity.
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Annual industry 4.0 investments in digital operations 2016-2020, by industry
This statistic shows the expected level of industry 4.0 investment into digital operations solutions, until 2020, by industry, according to a 2016 survey conducted by PwC. As of 2016, the forest, paper, and packaging industry is expecting to invest about ** billion U.S. dollars per annum into digital operations solutions until 2020.
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