Tag: industrial internet of things
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4 Technology Upgrades That Can Scale Up Your Manufacturing Business In 2020
There’s no doubt that technology plays a vital role in the world we live in, and the impact it makes on the evolution of the manufacturing industry is no exception. Once seen as the blue-collar industry, things have instantly changed in manufacturing due to technological advancements. In addition to making it more interesting in terms…
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Investcorp acquires Ubisense SmartSpace business and Ubisense brand
Investcorp has acquired the Ubisense SmartSpace business as well as the Ubisense brand for an undisclosed amount. Arma Partners acted as the exclusive financial adviser in the deal and says Ubisense is “a leader in the industrial internet of things” space. SmartSpace is an enterprise software and sensor platform that generates and interprets vast amounts…
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General Electric to connect 10,000 Aggreko assets to its IIoT network
General Electric has signed a multiyear supply agreement with Aggreko, a supplier of temporary power and temperature control solutions. The plan is to connect up to 10,000 assets to GE’s Distributed Power myPlant Asset Performance Management (APM) solution over the next five years. GE says its myPlant APM is an “original equipment manufacturer-agnostic”, industrial internet…
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General Electric: An industrial giant learning to live in a small world
After years of rebranding itself as a “digital” company, General Electric is returning to being a plain old $100-billion industrial giant that builds aircraft engines and equipment for the energy industry. According to the New York Times, GE spent “several billion dollars” building its digital business, with former CEO Geoff Immelt telling the Harvard Business…
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Smart manufacturing platforms: Industrial giants face diverse competition
Whether you call them IIoT platforms or smart manufacturing platforms, large industrial companies are finding themselves competing with each other but also new companies from different markets, specifically the computer tech world Every factory is different. It’s in a different location, makes different things, and uses different methods and systems. However, every factory shares some…
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Industry analysis: 8 technologies that will transform manufacturing
Advisory firm ABI Research has listed what it regards as the most transformative technologies in manufacturing. The company outlines how the technologies fit together with each other in its report Smart Manufacturing. The eight transformative technologies the report highlights are: Additive manufacturing Artificial intelligence and machine learning Augmented reality Blockchain Digital twins Edge intelligence Industrial…
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Opinion: The intersection of paperless work instruction and IIoT cobots
By Randy Blaylock, VP of sales for eFlex Systems Interoperability has arrived and the ability of machines, devices, sensors, and people to connect and communicate with each other via the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is no longer conceptual. It is practised every day on plant floors worldwide. Information systems can create a virtual copy…
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WinSystems launches Intel E3900-based single board computer with flexible edge computing for industrial IoT
WinSystems, a provider of embedded computer solutions used in industrial and other rugged high-performance applications, has introduced its small-footprint SBC35-C427 single board computer. The company says the “innovative design” is based on the latest Intel Atom E3900 series processor. WinSystems says the new computer is “unique” in coupling edge computing with multiple configurations and expansion…
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Fast-growing sectors within robotics and automation
If we were to think of robotics and automation as one industry – which we at this website in fact do – we could argue that it’s one of the fastest-growing industries in the world right now. Certainly if we were to include software automation systems – such as robotic process automation – it would…
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Alchemy IoT launches with $4 million funding to integrate AI into IIoT without need for coding
A new company called Alchemy IoT says it has $4 million seed funding to “simplify the industrial internet of thing using artificial intelligence”. The company says it addresses the high costs and complexities of AI-based IoT for small- to mid-sized industrial customers with “no-code” cloud-based application, which enables its customers to be up “and running…