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    • January/February 2024

    The worst of the supply chain woes brought on by the pandemic are largely in industrial automation's rearview mirror, but microelectronics remains a sore spot. The supply and demand imbalance for electrical components was reaching another critical point earlier this year, but industry largely redesigned its way out of the crunch.

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