Bosch has raised more than €1.5 billion in revenue from the implementation of Industry 4.0 techniques in its own factories, as well as its customers’ factories, during the past four years, it has said. The company has set an incremental revenue target of €1...
Germany-based Software AG has released a new self-service analytics tool to enable operational staff to rapidly spin-up analysis of real-time streaming data from industrial machines and solve and predict production issues.
The new solution, called Analytics Builder, is effectively a skin for Software AG’s Apama...
Arm is going after energy providers and device makers after striking a deal with Singapore-based EDMI, manufacturer of IoT modules for utilities, to provide the management platform for smart meter devices, connectivity, and data.
EDMI, owned by Osaki Electric Company in Japan, has major smart...
The city of Darwin in Australia has appointed UK-based lighting-controls provider Telensa to connect and make-smart around 10,000 new LED street lights.
Darwin is replacing 10,000 lights on its public lighting network with LEDs. Telensa is providing the connectivity and management platform. This will introduce...
AUSTIN, Texas, March 25, 2019 — Digital transformation of the supply chain will be bookended by two key technologies: the internet-of-things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI). Everything else is held in place by these twin digital capabilities.
This is the conclusion of a new editorial...
For digital transformation of the supply chain, artificial intelligence (AI) is effectively the only game in town. This is because it is the only technological discipline that knits together a chain of supply, making its parts work in concert to bring intelligence across its...
Finnish network vendor Nokia and Finnish private LTE provider Ukkoverkot have signed a five-year deal to bring connectivity, automation, and intelligence to the Port of Oulu, also in Finland. The project will start with the establishment of a private LTE network, attaching to internet...
Siemens has released new edge analytics tools to process data from workpiece machining, and deliver new insights and efficiencies to manufacturing operations. It has also revealed new edge hardware to simplify cloud connectivity for industrial IoT functions.
Its new MyWorkpiece applications, part of its Sinumerik...
Traditional industrial technology giants are transforming their businesses by buying, funding or partnering with connected and intelligent manufacturing technologies and data management companies. The trend is most notable in Europe, among companies like like Bosch Rexroth and Siemens. At the same time, China is...
ADLINK Technology and Illinois-based manufacturer Charles Industries have demonstrated the industry’s first micro-edge low-latency AI solution that can be co-located on LTE small cell poles or with emerging 5G radios.
The California-based edge solution provider has also announced a deal with Google Cloud to integrate...
Belgian smart-city security provider Room40 has announced a deal with Nokia to use the Finnish vendor’s machine learning tool for video analytics to discern anomalies in stream streams of video, audio and sensor information, and flag incidents in real-time. It is using the Nokia...
Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled ‘1.8k suppliers, 31m parts, 10k vehicles – How BMW is making sense of its supply chain’. Click here to go to the previous article.
But BMW’s major drive, to date, has been around automation. Indeed,...
BMW Group has a global roster of about 1,800 suppliers, scattered at 4,000 points across the globe. Together, they deliver 31 million parts to 30 BMW production sites, worldwide, every day. At the same time, almost 10,000 vehicles come off its production lines daily,...
Itron has signed with Lubbock Power & Light (LP&L) to deploy smart electricity meters and management software to improve service for around 107,000 electricity customers in Texas.
The move will bring LP&L up to speed with most other utilities in the state. The new equipment...
The supply chain links the whole Industry 4.0 movement. For higher-grade operational intelligence to be brought to bear across the wider industrial market, the supply chain needs to mesh-in with the various stages of production and delivery. It has to be integrated in order...
Australian operator Telstra has recruited German IT and IoT integration company Software AG to help it devise a software solution for automated water management.
Telstra already uses Software AG’s Cumulocity IoT platform as the basis of its own IoT platform offering. Their new water management...
New seed-stage private equity firm Ubiquity Ventures has made its first six investments in start-ups. Each of the companies selected for funding are in the industrial transformation or tech security games.
Ubiquity Ventures, based in Palo Alto, is focused on “pushing software beyond the screen”,...
Japanese telecoms giant NTT is working with California-based industrial IoT software developer Foghorn to deliver edge-based machine intelligence to industrial clients.
NTT-subsidiary NTT Data, offering systems-integration and IoT consultancy services, has selected Foghorn’s Lightning software for its on-premise analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, which...
The new service will be initially implamented at Narita and Haneda airports in Tokyo
Japan Airlines is working with Accenture on a new service that uses artificial intelligence to answer passenger requests at the airline’s check-in counters.
The service assesses what check-in counter agents are saying...
Industrial companies will invest in their own private LTE and 5G networks because the business case for digital change is irresistible, and because they want control of their own infrastructure. This leaves operators, betting on new revenue from enabling industrial transformation, in the cold,...
Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled 'Software AG cites deals with AT&T, AWS, Dell in pursuit of €24bn IoT opportunity'. Click here to go to the previous article.
New Software AG chief Sanjay Brahmawar has been seven months in the...
Germany-based Software AG has reorganised its channel strategy to prioritise IoT platform deals with the likes of AT&T, ‘hyper-scale’ cloud deals with the likes of AWS, edge hardware deals with the likes of Dell, and IT and IoT reseller deals with the likes of...
Google has released new hardware for machine learning at the edge in the form of a single-board computer running its edge-based Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) processor. Alongside the new system-on-module (SOM), available under its Coral brand, Google has unveiled a USB-connected accessory that brings...
IBM has introduced a new suite of industrial internet of things (IoT) solutions for preventative and predictive downtime and maintenance that leverage artificial intelligence and advanced analytics.
The solution will reduce the risk of failure of physical assets including vehicles, manufacturing robots, turbines, mining...
