Tag: 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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Opinion: The automated road to supercomputing and the quantum world
This month’s issue of Sensor Readings magazine – which you can find soon on this website and on Issuu.com – features an article about the recent Automatica event, held every two years in Munich, Germany. It’s probably the largest exhibition in the world built around the industrial automation industry. The main themes or trends Automatica…
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Thailand and South Korea sign new trade and investment deals
Thailand and South Korea have been working closely to increase bilateral trade and investment. The two countries are among the largest manufacturers of advanced technological products in the world. Overall, when all manufacturing is taken into account, South Korea is approximately the fifth-largest manufacturing nation in the world, while Thailand is within the top 20.
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Huawei woos industrial sector with new networking technologies
Huawei has been trying to woo the industrial sector with new networking technologies and a significant presence at the recent Hannover Messe event Huawei has been showcasing its solutions and best practices for digital industrial transformation under the theme of “Leading New ICT, Connecting Bits & Gears”. Focusing on connectivity, Huawei and industry partners are…
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Hannover Messe: Siemens showcases its digital enterprise portfolio
Siemens has been showcasing its digital enterprise portfolio at Hannover Messe. The company says it has been continuously enhancing its digital services for Industrie 4.0, also referred to as the fourth industrial revolution, wherein all machines are connected to the internet and everything is digitised, right down to individual components, which have what are called…
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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…
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ABB partners with Hewlett Packard Enterprise to bring IoT intelligence to industrial plants
Companies say the new partnership will provide “actionable insights across industrial plants, cloud and on-premises data centers for higher productivity and innovation” ABB and Hewlett Packard Enterprise have agreed a strategic global partnership that combines ABB’s digital offerings, through ABB Ability, with HPE’s hybrid information technology solutions. The companies say the partnership will provide customers…
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SPS at the nexus of IT and OT convergence
There seems to be more interest in the SPS IPC Drives event this year than there was last year. It’s noticeable to us here at the website because we have received many more press releases and articles talking about the event. But there could also be another reason. It’s very likely that the trend of…
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Vietnam looks to achieve progress through the ‘massive potential’ of the industrial internet
The “massive potential” of the internet of things will help Vietnam in its goal of becoming an industrial country by 2020, say industry organisations and leaders in the country. Many of the industrial companies and leaders will be showcasing their solutions and discussing the future at an event and forum called the Asia IoT Business…
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70 per cent of Fortune 100 companies use the industrial internet, says report
Seven out of 10 Fortune 100 companies now offer industrial internet products, services, or initiatives, according to new research published by InField Clipboard. Although the Internet of Things is popular in consumer applications, most IoT developments are being made for major companies like General Electric, Rolls Royce, AT&T and Google. The world of IoT is…