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LG Electronics to establish an artificial intelligence research laboratory in partnership with the University of Toronto, in Canada.
The company says the new facility is an expansion of its AI research and development work in North America.
LG already has an AI lab in Silicon Valley, in the US. The company says it is a multimillion-dollar, long-term commitment. [Read more…] about LG Electronics to establish AI lab in Canada
Hitachi Automotive Systems says its advanced driver assistance system’s electronic control unit was selected for use in Mitsubishi Motors’ eK Series vehicles.
The eK series refers to three models: the eK Wagon, eK Custom and eK Space.
The eK Series now comes with “improved preventative safety functions” and is a mini vehicle that went on sale recently. [Read more…] about Hitachi’s advanced driver assistance system used in Mitsubishi’s eK Series
Industrial workers are increasingly seeing the benefits of working with robots, rather than humans, to improve productivity and relieve the pressures they are under.
This is one of the findings of the latest research from Epicor Software Corporation, a global provider of industry-specific enterprise software to promote business growth.
According to the research, which questioned around 2,500 business respondents in 14 countries, staff are aware of the many benefits of working alongside robots. [Read more…] about Industrial workers would rather have a robot colleague, suggests new report
Omron has released its new NX-series Safety Network Controller.
The company claims it is the world’s first to support two safety protocols: CIP Safety 2 that is adopted by industrial robot manufacturers and Safety over EtherCAT that provides a high-speed response.
Omron says that, in automotive and food factories where a wide variety of products are produced, the NX-series Safety Network Controller facilitates building and modifying safety systems for production lines using industrial robots and controls safety systems at high speeds, helping manufacturers “create manufacturing sites which ensure workers’ safety and productivity”. [Read more…] about Omron launches new ‘safety network controller’ for industrial operations
HMS Industrial Networks has acquired all shares in the German company Beck IPC located in Wetzlar, Germany.
Beck is a provider of technology and solutions for embedded control and industrial M2M communication, including solutions for the Industrial Internet of Things, IIoT.
The base technology IPC Chip is the core of Beck IPC’s product offering for industrial original equipment manufacturers. [Read more…] about HMS Industrial Networks acquires Beck IPC
Siemens has agreed to buy application developer Mendix for $697 million.
The engineering giant says Mendix will continue as a distinct company and provide the “low-code” cloud software on which it has built its reputation.
The closing of transaction is expected in the first quarter of fiscal year 2019. [Read more…] about Siemens to buy Mendix for $700 million to ‘strengthen digital leadership’
Plex Systems, a provider of cloud enterprise resource planning and manufacturing execution systems software, has acquired Dattus, a supplier of industrial internet of things connectivity technologies.
Dattus solutions connect manufacturing equipment and sensors to the cloud, manage high-volume data streams, and analyze in-motion equipment data to optimize performance, reduce costs, and ensure uptime.
The acquisition is expected to accelerate Plex’s IIoT strategy, extending the Plex Manufacturing Cloud to new streams of machine data and the underlying intelligence. The acquisition was completed last month. [Read more…] about Plex Systems acquires factory data company Dattus
Software maker Autodesk is using machine learning and lessons learned from Lego to develop robotic systems for modular assembly in the real world.
Lego, as most people will know, is the company which makes small toy bricks and other objects which can be connected to each other in simple ways to create complex structures, such as toy houses, cars and so on.
Most adults will have played with Lego at some point in their lives, and the companies toys are still popular with today’s kids.
The Lego world has always interested other companies, some of which have copied the to create modular systems in many areas, including large-scale real building construction. [Read more…] about Autodesk uses Lego method to develop modular assembly system for real factories
Apple has updated MacBook Pro with faster performance and new pro features, making it the most advanced Mac notebook ever.
Apple is, by some accounts, the world’s largest manufacturing company, certainly by such measures as market capitalization and perhaps revenues.
The company is continually launching new products and updating its existing ones, which often means changing of suppliers. [Read more…] about Apple releases new ‘fastest, most powerful’ MacBook Pro
Mentor, a Siemens business, says the company’s Veloce Strato platform is now a customer-validated cloud computing emulation platform directly accessible on-demand on Amazon Web Services.
The Veloce Strato platform offers data center options, such as hardware emulation on-premises, off-premises and on AWS. It’s a computing system often used by chip designers.
This new data center use model extends the availability of hardware emulation across a broad range of deployment scenarios to ensure that all semiconductor companies have access to hardware emulation for system-on-chip and system-of-systems verification. [Read more…] about Mentor Veloce hardware emulation platform now available on Amazon Web Services
