In today’s business and technology landscape, organizations across industries are being challenged to reimagine their manufacturing and supply chain operations, differentiated product and service offerings and customer experiences to drive innovation, reduce time to market and improve efficiency and productivity. These capabilities disrupt traditional...
Omniverse goes IaaS with new managed services and a global delivery network
Nvidia’s been pushing its metaverse concept, the Omniverse, as everything from a digital twin simulation system to a collaborative 3D playground for designers and researchers, an AI training and proving ground to make...
Combining Nvidia’s Omniverse and Siemens’ Xcelerator enables 'full-fidelity digital twins'
Nvidia and Siemens have announced a collaboration that the two businesses promise will transform the manufacturing industry. The collaboration pairs Nvidia’s Omniverse and Siemens’ newly announced Xcelerator platforms together to “bring industrial automation to a...
When you’re launching a new technology, it’s easy to develop a rooting interest. It’s only human – you devote your passion and energy to this new innovation, and you want people to know it’s better than the alternatives. Meanwhile, people working on alternatives argue...
Industrial IoT is the tech answer to the business challenge of environmental sustainability. Everyone says so; everyone knows so. And yet only a third of enterprises are putting their money where their mouths are, and investing in industrial IoT. That is the message, effectively,...
Manufacturing facilities have seen a rapid shift in recent years as production moves beyond traditional methods of output to production enabled by the adoption of information and communication technology (ICT). Full automation is approaching as manufacturers aim for agile and flexible production processes that...
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There is no doubt that the emergence of 5G technology will have a great impact in the way Industry 4.0 manufacturers, or “smart factories,” produce and distribute goods. The key...
Hyundai Motor Group has agreed a $1.1 billion deal with Softbank to acquire an 80 percent stake in US-based robotics company Boston Dynamics. Japan-based telecoms group Softbank will retain a 20 percent stake in the firm, and contribute alongside as Hyundai looks to bring...
5G network slicing, edge computing and cloud robotics will enable growth of enterprise and industrial automation
A new report from analyst firm Mind Commerce revealed that the key to substantial growth for enterprise and industrial automation is a combination of 5G network slicing, edge computing...
Finnish vendor Nokia announced the launch of its Nokia Open Innovation Challenge (NOIC), through which the company aims to attract technology startups with innovative and disruptive solutions for the industrial automation segment.
Nokia said that the winners of this global competition will be provided with...
The partners will operate a 5G network at Volvo CE’s research facility in Sweden
Ericsson, Volvo Construction Equipment and Telia said they are already operating what they claim is Sweden’s first 5G network for industrial use.
Operated with a test license, the 5G network is comprised...
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 why the hype is building so feverishly in the first place.
Of course, the only...
Ultra reliability and low latency of 5G a major enabler of factory automation, robotics and other industrial use cases
With the right technological stack in place, manufacturers could eventually operate what's called a "lights-out" facility wherein factory automation solutions--think smart, connected robots--could supplant the need...
Chief Strategy Officer Rima Qureshi on innovation, disruption
In a wide-ranging podcast focused on the conceptual approach to corporate strategy and role of women in technology, Verizon Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer Rima Qureshi laid out her approach to working with internal stakeholders...
New product and investment speak to value of IoT for the smart manufacturing sector
Rockwell Automation is a major player in helping customers realize digital transformation and adopt IoT tools to create smart manufacturing operations that reduce downtime as a function of analytics, machine learning...
Amazon’s automated shipment centers are large-scale examples of the cyber physical systems driving toward Industry 4.0, or the fourth industrial revolution. The leading online marketplace’s “fulfillment centers” already rely on more than 15,000 robots to pick out merchandise for orders. The company also utilizes one...
Amazon’s automated shipment centers are large scale examples of the cyber physical systems driving toward Industry 4.0, or the fourth industrial revolution. The leading online marketplace’s “fulfillment centers” already rely on more than 15,000 robots to pick out merchandise for orders. The company also utilizes...
