Data Analytics

Note, this was originally intended to be a two part series covering Airbus’ four essential lessons for Industry 4.0. Here, we are inserting another entry and another lesson, of sorts, …

Metaphors aside, big data is the key to AI development We’ve all heard the comparison, perhaps too often, but here it is: big data is the new oil that business …

Membership of the World Economic Forum’s fledgling Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network (Centre Network) has swelled to over 100, with five nations and a number of international organisations …

UK tech incubator Digital Catapult is sponsoring a pair of UK firms to set up as Industry 4.0 showcase labs for the rest of the UK manufacturing industry. County Durham …

European aerospace firm Airbus has a 10-year back-log of orders, explains Sébastien Boria, R&D technology leader at Airbus. “Which means we have no problem selling aircraft.” Demand is high because …

I read it somewhere, and it made sense; the application of new digital technologies in the global supply chain is about two critical functions – ‘sensing’ and ‘sense-making’, where the …

Revenues generated by technology in the global supply chain will increase at a compound annual growth rate of 11 per cent over the next five years, reaching $440 billion by …

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has opened a new Industry 4.0 ‘innovation lab’ for industrial IoT and edge compute projects in Geneva, Switzerland. The company said the new facility will bring …

A major new internet of things (IoT) project has launched in London to investigate improve the city’s toxic air. The initiative, Breathe London, claims “the world’s most advanced and comprehensive …

Israel’s venture capital firm Magenta Venture Partners has announced a new $100 million fund for early-stage Israeli startups focused variously on autonomous vehicles, Industry 4.0, smart cities, and fin-tech, and …

The industry announcement of the Open Retail Initiative (ORI), (see this blog as well), spearheaded by Intel and Dell, couldn’t have come at a better time.  Pithy statements like “Data …

Further to last week’s sub-polemic on the wrongheaded marketing of 5G services, it is worth considering, again, just how transformational the next generation of mobile technology could be – and …

The City of Sacramento has agreed with two Silicon Valley artificial intelligence (AI) firms to develop high-definition 2D and 3D maps of local road infrastructure to share with car makers …

China is to build 30 logistics hubs during the next 12 months and 150 in the following five years as part of a major expansion and transformation of its supply …

Calgary based industrial AI and IoT provider Osprey Informatics has raised $2.75 million ($3.75 CAD) from Shell Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Royal Dutch Shell, and Evok Innovations, the Silicon …

A slew of enterprise funds and venture capital has been staked on the enterprise-facing internet-of-things (IoT) sector in recent months, as vendors have got a better grasp of the technology …

Growth in smart meter shipments by water utilities during the next decade, alongside higher sales of smart gas meters, will offset a decline in smart electricity meters, which have underpinned …

While mining big data in stored information for business intelligence is not a new idea it offers a new way for building owners and portfolio managers to identify trends to …

Chinese internet of things (IoT) company G7 Networks has completed a $320 million funding round, with investments from Total Energy Ventures (TEV) International, Tencent, and GLP, among others. The value …

Siemens has been engaged to digitise and automate the new indoor stockyard for the Jiangsu Binxin Special Steel Material Company (Binxin Steel) in China. China’s moves in recent years to …

  The Canadian firm has already launched connected car offerings with nine carriers globally   Vancouver connected-car startup Mojio announced that it has partnered with T-Mobile Polska to power Smart …

UK super market chain Waitrose is to start farming and selling crops reared by robots. The firm behind the technology claims farming revenues will increase by up to 40 per …

Food cold storage operator Lineage Logistics has engaged IoT solution provider ndustrial.io and carrier AT&T to reduce annual energy usage by 34 per cent and annual energy costs by $4 …

The digital transformation of manufacturing is about to break big, reckons US industrial IoT and AI startup MachineMetrics, after raising $11.3 million in Series A funding for its factory analytics …

Note, this is the second part of an interview with Mentor Graphics; for the first instalment go here. For Siemens, Mentor Graphics’ software capabilities with chip and board design, particularly …