SupplyChain Magazine December 2018 | Page 100

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Australia . The other company was manufacturing products mainly focused on embedding data into broadcast transmissions and was based in Ottawa . Again , the acquisitions touched on the edges of the pre-existing products and we added routing and data insertion to our range of solutions .”
Another product range Ross wanted to offer its customers was camera robotic systems . Robots are used in broadcasting to allow one person to control multiple cameras , as opposed to having an operator at every camera . “ You can create more sophisticated and visually interesting camera moves with a robot , so it ’ s an attractive solution for content producers . We acquired two robotics companies ; one in Belgium , which was a small but fast-growing business , and one in California , which was a little more
Robotic products , such as the Furio pictured here , drove another significant expansion of Ross ’ product line and underlying supply chain
DECEMBER 2018