This article is taken from a longer report, Smart manufacturing: asset management, predictive maintenance, dynamic scheduling and other use cases, from August 2018.
The report tells the story of smart manufacturing in four chapters. The first two examine the expectations surrounding the IIoT movement (‘The...
The market’s response to reports of the impending sale of GE Digital combined both regret, that the company’s barnstorming run as a digital-change agent is potentially over, and a distinct lack of surprise, that its parent’s performance and culture has finally told against it.
Reports,...
A new investigation by analyst house ABI Research has ranked the top smart manufacturing platforms, and placed PTC’s ThingWorx top of the pile. PTC has ranked at the top consistently in recent research into the leading digital factory platforms.
ThingWorx scored highest for augmented reality...
Semiconductor maker Intel has applied predictive maintenance to monitor the health of its fan filter units (FFUs) in its semiconductor production facilities through deployment of industrial IoT (IIoT) sensors and edge computing. The idea was to alert technicians to potential problems, define a proactive maintenance...
GE Digital will integrate its Predix portfolio with Microsoft Azure’s cloud capabilities, and standardise its Predix solutions on Microsoft Azure, it has announced.
GE and Microsoft said they will also work together under the terms of an expanded partnership on the development, marketing, and sales...
“If you are not investing in these technologies to drive your own product gains, know that your competitors are already doing so. If you haven’t started, you need to; the industrial IoT (IIoT) race has already begun.” This was the view from GE Digital...
General Electric reckons the convergence of machines, data and analytics will contribute $10 to $15 trillion to global GDP in efficiency gains over the next two decades. It has spent at least $1 billion to develop its own Predix platform, like an industrial internet...
Silicon Valley's internet of things developers conference has laid claim to a key audience within the IoT ecosystem: the developers who create the software and embedded systems to connect devices to the internet and analyze the data they generate.
The show filled a wing of...
Predictive maintenance is a key industrial IoT use case
Chinese ICT vendor Huawei and GE Digital have launched a jointly-developed industrial cloud-based predictive maintenance solution that integrates Huawei's EC-IoT gateways and Agile Controller, GE's Predix platform, other partners' sensors and controllers, and industrial applications to construct information...
Even in this digital age, the United States produces roughly 150 million pieces of snail mail each day, and most of it is processed by Pitney Bowes machines. Many of those machines operate 24/7 thanks to sensors and cloud-based software that help Pitney Bowes...
CHICAGO- GE and Bosch announced a collaboration between both of the organization’s software divisions, GE Digital and Bosch Software Innovations. The two well-known organizations signed a memorandum where GE Digital and Bosch Software Innovations will further “facilitate openness and growth of the industrial internet...
