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 technology up to date. Most commonly, the requests are to replace serial systems with an ethernet based topology. When it comes to legacy projects the most common […]
Expanding SaaS offerings
PTC has announced that it has expanded its robust Software as a Service (SaaS) capabilities with two new products shipping on the PTC Atlas SaaS platform. Atlas, announced at the LiveWorx 2020 Digital Transformation Conference, now supports an expanding portfolio of SaaS applications and production-ready solutions. With the Vuforia Expert Capture and Creo Generative Design […]
New braking distance simulator improves safety and reduces robotic cell footprint
ABB’s RobotStudio offline programming and simulation software has been upgraded with a new virtual robot braking distance function designed to create an exact simulation of the real-world stopping distance of a robot. Enabling the robot’s braking distance to be accurately calculated, the function overcomes the need to add safety margins into cell designs, enabling space […]
Helping the steel industry protect vital skills and move towards net zero
PTC, one of the world’s leading authorities on Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), has joined forces with the Materials Processing Institute, a research and innovation centre serving global steel and materials organisations, to explore the potential of AR at its Normanton Plant in Teesside. The project will initially use Vuforia Studio technology to overlay live […]
AWS to support the global expansion of Disney+
Amazon Web Services has unveiled that The Walt Disney Company is leveraging AWS for the global rollout of Disney+, one of the largest online streaming video services in the world. The Walt Disney Company relies on AWS as its preferred public cloud infrastructure provider to support the explosive growth of Disney+, which quickly surpassed 100 […]
Poor collaboration holding back digital transformation projects in Europe
Netskope, the leading security cloud, has revealed startling new research showing a major breakdown in collaboration between two of the central components of the IT team – networking and security. While 45 per cent of European security and networking teams sit within the same larger group and report to the same boss, 43 per cent […]
First open end-to-end software solution for additive manufacturing
Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division and Authentise have partnered to extend the Additive Manufacturing (AM) control loop from the machine level to connect the end-to-end value chain from design, manufacturing operations and quality assurance to make additive manufacturing more predictable, repeatable and traceable. Data from shopfloor manufacturing operations, engineering data from the design phase, materials properties […]
Enhancing enterprise AI applications
C3 AI and Yokogawa Electric Corporation have announced that Yokogawa has selected the C3 AI Suite as a platform to enhance enterprise AI applications and complement its digital transformation solutions and services for industrial customers. Yokogawa signed a multi-year agreement enabling the company and its wholly owned subsidiary, KBC, to deploy the C3 AI Suite with […]
Integration of digital twin platform announced
Bentley Systems, the infrastructure engineering software company, has announced that it is developing applications using the NVIDIA Omniverse platform for photorealistic, real-time visualization and simulation of digital twins of massive-scale industrial and civil infrastructure projects. Bentley Systems has extended the Bentley iTwin platform to integrate with NVIDIA Omniverse to provide a graphics pipeline for AI-enhanced, […]
Cobot wins prestigious Best of the Best Red Dot award
ABB’s GoFa cobot was awarded the prestigious Red Dot Best of the Best design award in recognition of its unique design concept to make the new robot appealing and accessible to users. The global Red Dot Design Awards recognize achievements in product design, with the jury assessing thousands of entries every year. Red Dot’s “Best […]
Metals and mining accelerates on digital strategy but still trailing in execution
Research from Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has revealed that digital investments made by metals and mining companies fall far short of their potential, with companies up to 40 per cent less digitally mature than comparable industries, such as automotive or chemicals. The same findings uncovered to what extent digital boosts performance across metals and mining […]
Expanding spatial computing capabilities
PTC has announced the newest addition to its Vuforia augmented reality (AR) enterprise platform, the Vuforia Engine Area Targets offering – the first offering in the market to support the creations of immersive AR experiences for spaces up to 300,000 square feet. Through the use of Area Targets, industrial organisations can create AR interfaces within […]
New smart condition monitoring solution with IIoT sensors for industrial plants
Siemens is presenting Sitrans SCM IQ, a new Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solution for Smart Condition Monitoring, at the Hannover Messe 2021. It enables potential incidents to be detected and prevented at an early stage, thus reducing maintenance costs and downtimes, and increasing plant performance by up to ten per cent. The wireless, robust […]
Cooperation on digital transformation for die casting
To support their goal of manufacturing quality parts, Toyota Industries Corporation and Siemens have cooperated to develop artificial intelligence (AI) that can predict product abnormalities in aluminium die casting, a key process in automotive air conditioning compressor production. The development is one of the world’s first to use defect prediction AI for die casting. It […]
Insights and automated explanations to help democratize data science
Tableau, the world’s leading analytics platform, has introduced Business Science, a new class of AI-powered analytics that lowers the barrier to data science techniques, enabling business users and analysts to make smarter decisions faster. In a market where agility is the ultimate competitive advantage, Business Science empowers more people with data, with simplified model creation, predictions, […]
Collaboration to support Internet of Things data management service announced
Percona, a leader in open source database software and services, has announced that Mi-C3, a specialist in digital transformation solutions and real-time data management, has signed with Percona for Support and Consulting Services around its critical PostgreSQL databases in their flagship product, Affectli. Mi-C3 implements and manages a powerful Business Operating System and digital transformation […]
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 aimed to limit the average rise in global temperatures to 2°C above pre-industrial levels, trying to keep the increase below 1.5°C. Since […]
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 holistic approach to engineering, technology, plant science, and automation create a set of technology value propositions in a sector that is experiencing tremendous growth, currently worth as much as $80 […]
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 critical purpose that gets taken for granted when all is going well. However, CEOs ignore data centres at their peril: data centres […]
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 digital twins, the pieces would all seem to be in place. But is the sector ready to take that step and cut humans entirely out of the process? […]
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 to around 420,000 deaths. Research published earlier this year by the Food Standards Agency revealed that around 2.4 million cases of foodborne […]
