The future of frontline workforce is digital
Despite making up the majority of the industrial workforce, frontline workers have been left behind when it comes to harnessing digitalisation benefits. A new free white paper ‘The …
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WLAN the retrofit revolution
Gareth Chamberlain, product manager- cyber security and it automation, Phoenix Contact explains that over the last year, there have a lot of retrofit projects asking for help to bring older …
Facilitating Change: The smart benefits of going green
Matthew Margetts, director of sales and marketing at Smarter Technologies explains why now is the time to act towards the goal of zero carbon and go green. The UN Paris Agreement in 2015 …
Sector Report: Food and beverage – Farming on the up and up
Vertical Future is a high-growth technology company, headquartered in London, that specialises in controlled environment agriculture (CEA) – a sub-sector of vertical farming. The company’s …
The growing imperative of sourcing sustainable data centre capacity
Most people in an organisation think about their data centre very infrequently, if at all. It is like water in the sink or electricity behind the light switch; it is there, serving a …
Autonomous Operations – Humans need not apply
Autonomous manufacturing has been spoken about for some time. With the maturation of technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning and the advent of dynamic, real-time …
Sector Report: Food and beverage – A connected approach to food safety
Food safety has been high on the global agenda for some time, with the UN estimating in 2019 that a staggering 600 million people fall ill after eating contaminated food each year, leading …
Taking baby steps on the path to autonomous operations
It seems that autonomous operations are finally within our grasp with the maturation of the various component technologies. But does that mean we are about to enter the autonomous age? …
Sector Report: Food and beverage – A circular ambition for post-consumer waste
SAP and Topolytics are working on the COP26 Waste Insights Project, which will unify and analyse data from consumer goods, retailers, waste managers, investors, NGOs and local …
Sector Report: Food and Beverage – A tale of five challenges
Enterprise software company, Infor, outline the top five issues that food and beverage manufacturers currently face. The high-level issues facing food and beverage manufacturers today might …