Accenture Completes Acquisition of Eclipse Automation
NEW YORK and TORONTO; Aug. 29, 2022 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has accomplished its acquisition of Eclipse Automation, a supplier of personalized manufacturing automation and robotics options headquartered in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. Terms of the transaction, which Accenture introduced on July 21, 2022, weren’t disclosed.
Eclipse Automation creates automated manufacturing techniques to provide refined merchandise for all times sciences, industrial tools, automotive, power and shopper items corporations. The acquisition, designed to assist shoppers construct factories of the long run, permits Accenture to supply automated manufacturing strains that leverage the cloud, information and synthetic intelligence (AI), making factories and crops smarter and thus, extra productive, sustainable and secure. Eclipse Automation’s roughly 800 professionals be part of Accenture’s digital engineering and manufacturing service, Industry X.
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