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...
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...
German manufacturer Bosch has said it will open an Industry 4.0 reference factory in Xian, in China, by 2020. The new plant will produce control systems and linear motion technology, it said.
The announcement of the China initiative follows a parallel commitment to Mexico, last...
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...
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,...
Automation technologies are creating more jobs than they are destroying in Germany, according to a new report by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW).
Recent investments in digital technologies, including standard automation techniques like analytics and artificial intelligence (AI), have seen a one per...
Industry 4.0 and the internet of things among focus of 5G lab
Telecom Italia (TIM) and Ericsson have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Municipality of Genoa, the Liguria region and Liguria Digital to launch a 5G digital lab to explore the benefits of...
Cognitive manufacturing — the combination of data collection, massive data storage and artificial intelligence — holds the promise of transforming industry. We talked to IBM, one of the pioneers in the field, to get some pointers on what it takes to make cognitive manufacturing...
Furthering the Industry 4.0 movement, Telefónica has teamed up with car maker SEAT and car-parts maker Ficosa to showcase an IoT-based supply-chain and manufacturing concept for the automotive industry.
The demo, one of many industrial IoT concepts from telecoms operators and vendors at Mobile...
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...
A Q&A with Werner Hamberger of Audi AG Steering Digital Production
Industrial leaders are implementing smart manufacturing strategies with the primary goal of improving operational efficiency and gain more value from business. One of the companies that has embraced digital transformation is German carmaker Audi....
Bosch has recently announced the creation of a new business unit focusing on Industry 4.0 solutions
Bosch announced the opening of an internet of things (IoT) hub in Germany’s capital Berlin, where the firm aims to bring together its global efforts in the IoT field....
The Chinese government is promoting the implementation of smart manufacturing practices among local companies
German company Siemens announced plans to build an ‘Industry 4.0’ smart manufacturing innovation center in China. The smart manufacturing center, which will be located in Taiyuan, capital of north China's Shanxi...
The telco said this technology will boost the development of IoT solutions across its network footprint
Orange Business Services has accelerated its LTE-M strategy to support the development of internet of things (IoT) solutions for the enterprise market in Europe. In February 2017, the French...
Latest 5G trials will be carried out by TIM and Fastweb with the support of Huawei
Italian operators TIM and Fastweb, together with Chinese vendor Huawei, said the Ministry of Economic Development (MISE) has awarded spectrum in the 3.6-3.8 GHz frequencies to trial 5G technologies...
Nestlé works with B&R to connect legacy production systems into a smart factory
According to recent projections from research firm Netscribes Inc., the global market for smart factory solutions will hit an annual value of $74.8 billion by 2020, which reflects a 10.4% compounds annual...
Bringing digital transformation to the manufacturing sector is a main goal of the partnership
Manufacturing is a major economic driver in Germany, and, as such, the sector is drawing considerable federal investment under the auspices of Industry 4.0, a national plan to digitally transform manufacturing....
While a vast majority of business leaders expect the industrial IoT to become a reality very soon, only a minority are ready for it.
The industrial Internet of Things (industrial IoT) or the fourth industrial revolution, defined by the World Economic Forum (WEF) as the...
The software firms plans to establish IoT labs around the world
German software giant SAP confirmed it will invest 2 billion euros ($2.24 billion) in its internet of things business over the next five years.
SAP said it plans to accelerate innovation in its solution portfolio,...
An army of hacked IoT devices was used to conduct the two largest DDoS attacks to date.
Security experts have warned time and again that hacked IoT devices could cause serious security damage. Now might be a good time for IoT device makers and IT departments...
Ericsson is reported to be planning to close its remaining manufacturing sites in Sweden. A new CEO is yet to be announced.
Ericsson could be about to end its 140 years manufacturing tradition in Sweden as it plans to close down its two remaining...
Machine vision sales growth stuck in single digits despite advent of Industry 4.0
Very sophisticated sensor technology is key to the next phase in the development of the "internet of things." Machines, vehicles and devices will need to be able to “see” in order to...
Machine vision sales growth stuck in single digits despite advent of Industry 4.0
Very sophisticated sensor technology is key to the next phase in the development of the internet of things. Machines, vehicles and devices will need to be able to “see” to collect valuable...
Advances brought about by the industrial IoT will go beyond manufacturing, says IBM, which proclaims the next economic revolution.
The 1700s and 1800s saw the industrial revolution taking place and the 1960s through to the 2000’s saw a technological revolution. Combine these two types...
