FOCUS Investment Banking Assisted Burnhart Holdings (WEC Group) in its Sale to Amari UK Inc. — Cross-border transaction in the Advanced Automation Industry and winner of the 2018 M&A Worldwide Deal of the Year Award

2024-02-12T23:33:26+00:00December 19, 2018|Advanced Manufacturing, Deals, International News, International Transactions, Mergers & Acquisitions News, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures|

Washington, DC, (December 18, 2018) – FOCUS Investment Banking, a ...

FOCUS Investment Banking represents ICAPE GROUP in its Acquisition of DIVSYS International, LLC — Cross-border transaction in the Advanced Automation Industry

2024-09-18T14:25:31+00:00September 14, 2018|Advanced Manufacturing, Deals, International News, International Transactions, Mergers & Acquisitions News, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures|

Washington, DC, (September 14, 2018) – FOCUS Investment Banking, a ...

Five Smart Steps in Applying Artificial Intelligence (AI)

2024-01-22T10:58:48+00:00June 7, 2018|Advanced Manufacturing, Articles, Technology Services|

“Artificial intelligence is the future… From health care to transportation to national security, AI has the potential to improve lives. But it comes with fears about economic disruption and a brewing ‘AI arms race.’ Like any transformational change, it’s complicated. Perhaps the biggest AI myth is that we can be confident about its future effects,” according to the Washington Post.

Made in America: The 33 Cent Chinese Arkansas T-Shirt

2024-01-22T10:58:28+00:00October 3, 2017|Advanced Manufacturing, Articles, Blogs|

Recently my colleague Marco Chan shared an extraordinary story that puts a new slant on the public discussion about robotics, China, outsourcing and the future of jobs.  According to this Bloomberg Business Week story,  a Chinese manufacturer, Tianyuan Garments Co., is investing $20 million to open a plant in Little Rock that will utilize robots developed by a Georgia company, Software Automation, to manufacture T-Shirts at a cost of 33 cents per shirt.  Each SEWBOT™ workline is capable of spitting out a T-Shirt every 26 seconds.  Human workers don’t stand a chance against such competition, no matter how low a wage rate they are willing to accept.

The Work World Is Changing And Society Needs To Change As Well

2024-01-22T10:58:28+00:00May 8, 2017|Advanced Manufacturing, Articles|

We live in a time of great paradox. Technologies such as low cost renewable energy and automated production tools promise a world of abundance in which global poverty is abolished and human drudgery is eliminated. Yet even a casual glance at the daily news confronts us with a sense of dread that, far from Utopia, we are instead headed toward a dystopian future in which the benefits of technological advance will be reserved for a privileged few.

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