“The world is changing, and changing extremely fast,” explains Swedish manufacturer Sandvik at PI World 2019 in Gothenburg this week. The firm, a ‘lighthouse’ smart manufacturer for the World Economic Forum, says industrialists must drive digital change in order to save the planet.
During a...
The operational technology (OT) industry moved to shore up its position as the arbiter of industrial change at PI World 2019 in Sweden today by declaring that new-fangled digital technologies like artificial intelligence cannot be so easily sold into the industrial set by opportunistic...
German industrial giant Siemens has announced it will acquire UK based Process Systems Enterprise (PSE), a supplier of advanced data modelling software for process industries, including the chemicals, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, and food and beverage manufacturing.
The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter;...
The mining industry continues to recruit operators and vendors to deploy new industrial LTE and 5G networks on the promise of industrial change. Minera Las Bambas in Peru, the ninth largest copper mine in the world, is the latest to make the call, appointing...
The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) announced a new program designed to stimulate IIoT adoption across industry, IIC said in a statement.
Named the IIC Accelerator Program, the
program includes several initiatives to appeal to end users of IoT technology
who want to discuss challenges with their peers,...
Canadian investment company McRock
Capital has held an initial closing on its second venture capital fund, McRock
Fund II LP, dedicated to investing in the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT)
space.
The new fund has reached over 80%
of its targeted CAD100 million ($75.9 million). Investors include...
Telstra and Ericsson have announced a deal with Perth-based mining and metals company South32 to deploy “one of the largest underground mining LTE networks in the world”. The new private LTE network, using Ericsson network equipment and Telstra radio spectrum, will be built at...
A Vietnam-based startup car manufacturer, VinFast, claims to have built a “fully-digital” automotive factory with capacity for 250,000 cars a year, and flexibility to scale to more, from scratch in just 21 months. Similar greenfield developments, to establish new automotive manufacturing facilities, have taken...
Germany is to pump €40 billion into digital transformation of its old coal-mining regions, to drive enterprise and employment as coal mining is phased out in the country.
New legislation that is expected to pass by the end of the year, which will designate...
Digital transformation of the global maritime freight industry is gathering pace. A new report claims digital change in the shipping industry will expand in value-terms by around 10 per cent per year in the period to 2027, reaching about $38.4 billion in total.
Danish...
The number of certified Zigbee IoT products and platforms in the market for smart homes and cities has passed 3,000, according to the Zigbee Alliance.
The alliance’s certification programme seeks to establish quality standards and levels of interoperability among Zigbee products for product developers,...
Enterprise IoT adoption progressing but challenges remain
SAN FRANCISCO--As enterprises of all stripes look to cut costs, automate processes, increase efficiency and agility and otherwise successfully make good use of their data, adoption of internet of things technologies has markedly accelerated in the past year,...
Deutsche
Telekom and Ericsson have announced a strategic partnership to jointly serve
industrial enterprise customers with campus networks.
The German
carrier said that the new solution will support diverse use cases on
manufacturing shop floors, or at logistic centers, airports and harbors.
A campus network
is a mobile network for...
A new smart farming initiative in Brazil, called ConectarAGRO, is seeking to make use of LTE and 5G connectivity, as well as satellite and microwave technologies, to enable 500,000 farms to connect machinery, deploy robots and sensors, and engage precision mapping.
US agricultural equipment...
Hats off to the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), which continues to publish comprehensive and constructive guides on how to design, deploy, and manage digital change systems in highly individualistic ‘vertical’ sectors, as part of this broader Industrie 4.0 concept.
Its recent publication, Managing and Assessing...
The enterprise IoT sector has moved up a gear, out of the lab and onto the ‘shop floor’, because the various parties involved have hit upon a way to collaborate on digital-change solutions. Perhaps the remarkable aspect of this is that it has taken...
The internet of things (IoT) provides a myriad of opportunities across a wide range of sectors. The possible applications are both far-reaching and exciting, with the potential to radically transform the way modern businesses operate, increasing efficiency and reducing costs.
Technology applications like...
Foghorn has struck a deal with auto-parts maker ADVICS to deploy its edge compute software to enable real-time analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) as part of its “smart factory transition”.
The California-based industrial IoT software developer has also released an Android version of its...
Germany-based IT and IoT integration company Software AG is looking to replicate its ADAMOS alliance of machine manufacturers in other industrial domains. It wants to hone its digital-change technologies at the ‘coal-face’ of the markets they are designed for, in collaboration with the companies...
The rise of private cellular networks has been a key narrative recently in the story of industrial transformation, propelled by the emergence of advanced data analytics (AI), distributed sensing and processing infrastructure (IoT), and super-fast connectivity (5G). Irish firm Druid Software has helped to...
Amazon has applied with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a temporary license to work in the CBRS band in California to test and analyse the performance of new 3.5 GHz (3550 MHz to 3700 MHz) wireless devices. It is its second application, at...
Finnish operator Elisa is offering enterprise customers and public safety agencies a private LTE solution, after trials with Swedish vendor Ericsson during the first half of the year.
Ericsson said the offer will enable Elisa’s enterprise customers to “gain control” of users, devices and...
The
Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) is piloting a contract automation tool
that uses artificial intelligence to negotiate between industrial companies,
without human involvement, to arrive at contract terms both sides can settle
on.
In recent weeks, the organisation has also issued comprehensive and constructive guides on trust and...
The industry welcomed Ofcom’s move to release spectrum in the UK for private and shared usage, although UK operators said their support was contingent on effective coordination measures to protect incumbent users.
Ofcom announced last week it will release spectrum in shared and licensed bands....
