Businesses falling drastically short in efforts to digitise supply chain
Businesses with large supply chains are struggling to digitise interaction with their suppliers despite huge desire to do so, according to a new study. A survey by digital managed services provider TrueCommerce found that as few as one in every 20 European retailers or manufacturers has entirely digitised its trading relationship with its supply chain. […]
Nearly one-third of organisations lost data due to a data centre outage
Nearly one-third of organisations (30 per cent) said they had lost data as a result of a data centre outage in the past year, while more than four in ten (42 per cent) said they had experienced a period of downtime. That’s according to a new survey conducted by Unitrends, which polled more than 400 […]
UK employees embrace AI in the workplace, but want more training
Employees in UK businesses are optimistic about the future impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on their jobs according to a nationwide study conducted by Genesys. The survey found nearly two-thirds of employees value new technological tools such as AI in the workplace. In fact, 64 per cent of UK employees say it makes them more […]
UK firms need to invest more in software to stem productivity crisis
Progrex is warning that businesses are not investing enough in systems, which is an issue that is contributing the UK productivity crisis. The average British worker produces more than 16 per cent less than most of the G7, the group of seven leading economies and experts believe some of this weak productivity can be put […]
Digital thinking leaders failing to achieve a positive financial return
Almost half of business leaders are failing to achieve a positive financial return from digital transformation projects they have executed despite considering themselves to be ‘digital thinkers’, reveals a new Censuswide survey. The poll of 250 business leaders at public and private sector organisations with more than 1000 employees, commissioned by leading HR and payroll […]
Beyond Proofs of Concept: Scaling the Industrial IoT
Michael Schallehn, Christopher Schorling and Peter Bowen, partners with Bain’s Technology practice, based in Silicon Valley, Frankfurt and Chicago, respectively and Oliver Straehle, partner in Zurich, where he leads Bain’s Advanced Manufacturing & Services practice in Europe, the Middle East and Africa argue that customers are finding it harder to implement the industrial IoT than […]
Bentley Systems Introduces new digital twin services
At this year’s Year In Infrastructure (YII) conference in Singapore Bentley Systems introduced new digital twin services for asset and network performance. AssetWise Digital Twin Services converge digital context, digital components, and digital chronology to provide immersive visualization and advanced analytics for enhanced decision support and improved performance of infrastructure assets. OpenUtilities Digital Twin Services […]
The future of manufacturing: Your people
According to Raffaele Carpi, partner in McKinsey’s Lisbon office, Anna Littmann, associate partner and Christoph Schmitz, senior partner, both in the Frankfurt office new technologies are an enabler, not merely a goal in themselves. If you read much of what is being written about manufacturing today, you would believe that advanced technology is the key […]
Benefits of edge computing in industry
CTS looks at how edge computing is becoming central to a new efficiency revolution In the age of the industrial internet of things (IIoT), the speed of data analysis is key to effective operation. Edge computing accelerates this process, allowing for industrial data analysis to be performed at the point of collection. Edge computing is […]
AVEVA launches integrated engineering, procurement and construction software solutions
At this year’s AVEVA World Summit 2019 in Singapore AVEVA has announced integrated engineering software designed to help customers transform the way capital projects are engineered, executed and integrated into operations and maintenance. The integrated portfolio comprises three software solutions. AVEVA Unified Engineering seamlessly integrates process design with front-end engineering and detailed 3D based design. […]
EDF Energy deploys PTC’s ThingWorx for innovative energy management solution
EDF Energy has deployed PTC’s ThingWorx Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) platform to remotely monitor and gather operational intelligence for its innovative energy monitoring and control platform, PowerShift. System Integrator and PTC Partner, Capula, was instrumental in facilitating the ThingWorx deployment. EDF Energy understands that the energy landscape is rapidly changing, as government, businesses […]
Analysis: Striving to make better Industry 4.0 investment decisions?
External factors can ‘make or break’ any major digitization effort – but sizing them can be very tricky. A new, data-driven five-factor model can help keep things simple and objective according to Aidan Quilligan, Industry X.0 global lead, Accenture, and Raghav Narsalay, Industry X.0 Research lead, Accenture. Most executives tasked with building business cases around […]
Artificial intelligence ushers in a brave new world for CNC machining
It is rare to come across a technology or business model that has the power to transform operations in a practical way, but if the vision of CloudNC comes to fruition it could do just that. The innovative start-up’s claim is that they are building the world’s most intelligent factory, powered by ground-breaking artificial intelligence. […]
Huawei’s pushes 5G’s impact on industrial digital transformation
Following the recent launch of 5G in the United Kingdom, the country has now entered a new era of connectivity. With 5G delivering the network convergence that will be central to the modern digital transformation process, it was a topic addressed specifically by Huawei’s president for global government affairs, Victor Zhang, as part of a […]
PTC adds PLM to portfolio on Microsoft Azure to accelerate customers’ digital transformation
PTC has announced that it has expanded its strategic alliance with Microsoft by delivering its Windchill product lifecycle management (PLM) solution on Microsoft Azure. Optimising Windchill with Azure is yet another milestone in the growing relationship between the two companies. PLM is the cornerstone of digital transformation, and it enables manufacturers to understand and leverage […]
MRPeasy helps Vivacity Labs keep the traffic flowing
To gain comparable visibility of its current and future manufacturing operations, Vivacity Labs has selected a cloud-based Manufacturing ERP package from MRPeasy. Municipal and highways authorities need visibility of traffic flows, causes and effects of jams and congestion, and smart data to help model future changes to road systems. To gain this visibility and data, […]
Improving the factory layout
Simone Bruckner, managing director at Cressall Resistors, explains how factory design can impact operational efficiency. “He that idly loses five seconds worth of time… might as prudently throw five seconds into the river”. Those are the words of Benjamin Franklin in one of his yearly almanacs, as he comments on the consequences of inefficiency. The […]
The fourth dimension
Jonathan Wilkins, director at EU Automation explains how 4D printing is impacting manufacturing Human beings have five senses; sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. But what about intuition? Some people refer to this as the sixth sense. Now, a new manufacturing technique is adding an extra dimension ─ a sixth sense ─ to products with […]
Traceable trust with trust-free tech
Darcy Simonis, industry network leader for food and beverage at ABB, explains why the emerging technology stores the key to greater traceability and reduced food wastage. It’s been more than ten years since the Satoshi Nakamoto published his whitepaper Bitcoin: A peer-to-peer electronic cash system. While Bitcoin itself has divided many and attracted criticism, the […]
You’ve got IIoT all wrong
George Walker, managing director of industrial automation expert Novotek UK and Ireland, makes the case for goal-driven digitalisation. Industry 4.0. The industrial internet of things. Digitalisation. Smart manufacturing. The fourth industrial revolution. There are dozens of different names for the uptake in connected technologies and the convergence of IT and OT systems taking place in […]
Lufthansa Technik group embarks on digital transformation journey
PTC have announced that Lufthansa Technik Group has selected the Windchill Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the ThingWorx Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) platforms as the core technology to digitally transform its product development and engineering processes. Windchill will serve as the engineering backbone, enabling R&D and manufacturing to work concurrently and improve collaboration both […]
