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Car-makers struggling with smart factories, despite promise of 50% profit-boost

Leading automotive manufacturers can expect to realise a remarkable 50 per cent jump in operating profits within five years of implementing a full smart factory set-up, according to new research. But car makers are so far struggling with the concept and technologies, it found. Consultancy...

IIoT security is hopeful at best, reckons the Hannover consensus

Completely securing the industrial ‘internet of things’ (IIoT) is hopeful at best, according to companies and analysts at Hannover Messe last week. The Germany-based industrial fair was focused on connecting factories and supply chains; the process to secure new devices and networks was the principle...

Rockwell joins Bosch, Cisco and Schneider to develop OPC-UA comms standard

US firm Rockwell Automation is heading a team of industrial automation specialists and solution providers to create a new communication solution based on the OPC-UA protocol for real-time and sensor-to-cloud applications. ABB, Belden, Bosch Rexroth, B&R, Cisco, Hilscher, KUKA, National Instruments, Parker Hannifin, Phoenix Contact,...

Telenor makes three million IoT connections in 2017, passes 10 million in total

Norwegian telecoms provider Telenor shipped three million SIM cards for ‘internet of things’ (IoT) installations in 2017, taking it past the 10 million mark for total IoT connections. The company’s total global IoT connections now exceed its traditional mobile subscriptions in Scandinavia. Mats Lundquist, chief...

Mexico targets foreign Industry 4.0 investment from Europe and Asia

Mexico’s is a fertile manufacturing economy that is ripe for automation, and primed for inward industrial investment. That was its message at Industry 4.0 trade fair Hannover Messe last week, as the nation prepares to go to the polls to elect a new president. Mexico...

Best in show: the smartest smart factory demos at Hannover Messe 2018

Hannover Messe is the biggest industrial fair on the planet; this year's smart factory set-ups were its most exciting yet - exhibiting high speeds, high security, and high performance, and suggesting high times for manufacturers in the coming months and years. Here, we select...

Fine watches, craft beer and the psychology of Industry 5.0

Industry 5.0? Really? Most industries are only just getting to grips with the idea of connected factories and automated processes, as described by the term Industry 4.0. Are we really ready for another industrial revolution? Danish Manufacturer Universal Robots reckons we are, and it...

Nokia intros cloud data centre for industrial automation at the network edge

Nokia has unveiled a new cloud-based data centre for edge computing. The Finnish telecoms vendor said the new data centre solution supports automation functions in industrial settings, as well as localised data processing in standard network architecture. New 5G technologies will encourage operators to implement...

Industry 4.0 trends revolutionising manufacturing, as found at Hannover Messe

In January, Gartner said 2018 would be the year of AI, digital twins, blockchain and edge computing. Fast forward to April, and the leading lights of the Industry 4.0 movement are collected in cavernous rooms at Hannover Messe. We take to the show floor...

The IIoT interview: “It’s about the processes, not the tech,” says Dassault Systèmes

Enterprise IoT Insights sat down with Darko Sucic, in charge of digital manufacturing at French industrial software company Dassault Systèmes, at Hannover Messe to get his views on the big IIoT trends coming out of the conference.  The booth belonging to Dassault Systèmes is buzzing...

Cisco and IBM finish Kinetic-Watson integration, hook-up Port of Rotterdam

Cisco and IBM have completed the integration of their Kinetic platform and Watson IoT system to improve data processing and intelligence at the network edge. The partnership is being brought to bear on autonomous shipping and logistics in the Port of Rotterdam, Europe’s largest...

IIoT is booming, with ready solutions for slicker processes, says Siemens

Siemens has hailed the arrival of the digital enterprise as an industrial movement in full swing, with ready for slicker processes. The German manufacturing giant said at Hannover Messe the industrial IoT (IIoT) market is alive and kicking, and that companies of any size...

Ericsson and Fraunhofer Institute demo industrial 5G for making jet engines

Telecoms vendor Ericsson and the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology have joined together to explore and develop industrial applications of 5G, including the production of components for jet engines. The 5G trial system, supplied by Ericsson for the work, has achieved latency of close...

Slowly, slowly, slowly – Software AG’s three principles of IIoT success

German software company Software AG reckons the industrial internet-of-things (IIoT) has reached a tipping point. Enterprises have bought into its promise, and are starting to carry through on tech blueprints to connect to improve efficiencies and productivity. “We see a turning point in the industry,...

ABB and HPE intro micro-modular data centre for IIoT edge computing

Swiss engineering conglomerate ABB has partnered with US IT software provider Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and German IT hardware maker Rittal to launch a new micro-modular data centre to handle data processing at the network edge in smart factory environments. The new ‘secure edge data...

Bosch invests €100m in Mexican smart factory for automotive parts

Bosch is to invest €100 million (US$120m) in a smart factory for automotive parts in Celaya, in Mexico. The new plant will create 1,200 additional jobs by 2020. The German manufacturer said it will upgrade all 10 of its manufacturing plants in Mexico as smart...

Deutsche Telekom intros Industry 4.0 data-sharing market, amid Messe splurge

Deutsche Telekom is to launch a data-sharing platform for industrial enterprises, in particular, that allows direct access to information between enterprises providing data, and those scheduled to receive it. The Germany-based telecoms group described it as a “key element for the digital factory,” ahead...

The hype and the glory: Industry 4.0 look-outs at Hannover Messe

The real impact of industrial technologies will be discussed and demonstrated at Hannover Messe next week (April 23-27). Automation and digital twins, powered by data analytics and artificial intelligence, will be the mainstays of the developing Industry 4.0 movement, reckon Bosch, Cisco, Deutsche Telekom,...

Cautious manufacturers struggling with logistics of supply chain transformation

Conservative-minded manufacturing businesses are hobbled by their cultures and skills, and struggling to implement digital change in their supply chain networks. This is despite the fact most are enlightened about the opportunities afforded by new digital supply chain technologies. A new study by Deloitte and...

GE urges telcos to follow its lead on IIoT innovation

Telecoms carriers should urgently marry innovation with new working practices if they are to capitalise on the opportunity of the industrialised 'internet of things' (IoT), according to GE. Sue Siegel, the company’s chief innovation officer and chief executive of its business innovations unit, said at...

Accenture opens IIoT innovation center in Italy

The new IIoT center in Modena will allow customers to apply manufacturing analytics and predictive maintenance Accenture has announced the opening of an industrial internet of things (IIoT) innovation center in Modena, Italy. The new IIoT facility will offer clients the possibility to explore, test...

Qualcomm talks transformative value of 5G for automotive, Industrial IoT

https://youtu.be/QKE2HdctbFo Durga Malladi, SVP of Engineering and Corporate R&D, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., discusses the standardization of 5G NR and highlights 5G use cases beyond enhanced mobile broadband including vehicular communications and the Industrial Internet of Things.

Qualcomm pushes limits of Gigabit LTE while prepping for 5G

https://youtu.be/D2g-dkkbVsA Serge Willenegger, SVP of 4G/5G and Industrial IoT, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., discusses the role of the X24 and X50 modems in facilitating the continued evolution of LTE networks in advance of commercialization of 5G.

CAT-M and NB-IoT adoption — a global view (Reader Forum)

Battle for adoption As the demand for worldwide IoT rapidly rises, so does the need for low power, low-cost and low throughput cellular devices. CAT-M and NB-IoT, the two cellular technologies leading the cellular IoT era, are competing for position and adoption around the world. When...