Bottle Job
High-availability process control solution as a cross-discipline core of a newly erected smart factory where glass bottles are manufactured for the pharmaceutical industry Within the …
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Blended Connectivity
Arguably one of the biggest challenges facing UK businesses in the coming year is the continued confusion regarding access to Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs) that are essential to …
How Volkswagen is developing the car of the future virtually
Bright sunlight floods the Volkswagen Virtual Engineering Lab in Wolfsburg. Two dozen screens flicker, some of them showing graphics and others hundreds of lines of program code. In the …
Mixed reality technology meets car design at Ford
Ford designers have been swapping some clay-sculpting steels and rakes for mixed reality headsets and visualisation software that can change vehicle design elements – side mirrors, grilles, …
Boeing tests augmented reality in the factory
Installing electrical wiring on an aircraft is a complex task that leaves zero room for error. That’s why Boeing is testing augmented reality as a possible solution to give technicians …
Dawn of a new reality
In an article published in the Harvard Business Manager (February 2018), Prof. Michael E. Porter, Harvard Business School and James E. Heppelmann, President and CEO of PTC, explain that AR …
Pointing the way to IIoT success through open standards
Phil Beecher, president and CEO, Wi-SUN Alliance explains why standardisation is a key requirement for IoT projects The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is rapidly changing the way …
Dealing with disruption
Rajat Dhawan, Bernd Heid, Paul Küderli, and Kevin Laczkowski of McKinsey look at how industrial companies can respond to disruptive forces A survey of 300-plus executives from the …
Roadblocks for 3D printing
CTS takes a closer look at 3D printing, what’s preventing businesses from adopting the technology and how you can manage material quality. 3D printing, sometimes known as additive …