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MIIT pushes digital transformation with standards plan

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What happened: On May 6, MIIT released a draft plan to push digital transformation across light industry with hundreds of new product and process standards. The factory floor is a key target for this round of standardization. MIIT wants to see:

Standards for data interfaces and communication p...



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