Tag: digitalisation

  • TeamViewer and Hyundai partner to accelerate digital innovation in automotive smart factory

    TeamViewer, a provider of remote connectivity and workplace digitalisation solutions, is partnering with mobility solutions provider Hyundai Motor to digitalise business operations and manufacturing processes for Hyundai Motor Group Innovation Center in Singapore (HMGICS). TeamViewer and Hyundai Motor Company will cooperate to maximise digitalisation benefits in HMGICS’ smart factory using TeamViewer’s Augmented Reality (AR) platform,…

  • Internet industry organisation calls for strengthening EU against tech giants

    Internet industry organisation calls for strengthening EU against tech giants

    The internet industry association ECO has called for the strengthening of the European Union against tech giants that have caused enormous disruption across Europe and the world. ECO has drawn up a six-point “catalogue of requirements” on behalf of the internet industry for the strengthening of Europe as a digital location. The organisation says the…

  • Metalworking event EMO opens amid news of greater investment

    Metalworking event EMO opens amid news of greater investment

    One of Germany’s leading metal-working events, EMO, has opened today amid news of greater investment in the sector, as well as a greater emphasis on “smart” technologies – which usually refers to higher levels of automation and digitalisation.  Organisers claim EMO to be “the world’s leading metalworking trade fair”, and had a line-up of prominent…

  • Volkswagen establishes new joint venture for connected services

    Volkswagen establishes new joint venture for connected services

    Volkswagen Brand China and its Chinese joint venture FAW-Volkswagen are scaling up their cooperation in the area of digitalisation and connectivity. MOS Intelligent Connectivity Technology Co. Ltd., a joint venture between Volkswagen Group China and FAW-Volkswagen, will be established in the Chinese city of Chengdu. The partners are investing a total of RMB 1 billion…

  • Siemens tops European patent application rankings

    Siemens tops European patent application rankings

    Siemens submitted more patent applications than any other company in Europe in 2018, thus advancing to first place in the European Patent Office’s application rankings. With 2,493 patent applications, Siemens relegated last year’s leader, Huawei, to second place, followed by Samsung and LG. In 2017, Siemens had taken second place. The last time the company…

  • DAB Pumps digitalises with Siemens MOM

    DAB Pumps digitalises with Siemens MOM

    Siemens has announced that DAB Pumps has selected the Siemens PLM Software Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) portfolio as part of its digitisation strategy. Siemens’ MOM portfolio integrates the digital threads of product lifecycle management (PLM) with automation and ERP, breaking down the traditional data silos and allowing a two-way flow of communication. Through the latest…

  • Camille Bauer says it’s strengthening Switzerland’s manufacturing base through digitisation

    Camille Bauer says it’s strengthening Switzerland’s manufacturing base through digitisation

    People and digitisation work together in a new manufacturing environment, says industrial measurement technology provider Camille Bauer Swiss industry contributes significantly to the country’s innovation, full employment and competitiveness, according to Federal Councillor Johann Schneider-Ammann. The company says Switzerland’s manufacturing base is “indispensable”, but adds that industry must seize on the opportunities of digitisation. Camille…

  • Digitalisation and the greatest industrial show on Earth

    Digitalisation and the greatest industrial show on Earth

    Hannover Messe is probably the largest and most important industrial technology show on Earth.  The venue for the event spans an area the size of a small town and it takes several days to visit all of the most important areas you might be interested in. Covering an event of that magnitude from a journalistic…

  • Digital manufacturing: An overview of an increasingly complex scenario

    Digital manufacturing: An overview of an increasingly complex scenario

    Digitalisation is, in essence, simple. It means exactly what the word implies – the digitalisation of everything.  But as simple as it sounds, digitalisation can be applied to any business in any sector, and that is what makes it difficult to provide a simple overview. If we stick to one sector – manufacturing – that might make…

  • Opinion: Is digitalisation the key to remote plant operation?

    Opinion: Is digitalisation the key to remote plant operation?

    By Eric Duchesne, SVP technology experts for Total, who will be addressing at the ERTC Ask the Experts conference in Cologne on 20-21 June  There have been many advances in the field of digitalisation in recent years. As the industry moves towards remote operation it is plant optimisation and integrity management which will provide the tools…