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ABB claims to have connected 7,000 of its industrial robots to its IIoT platform

ABB claims to have connected 7,000 of its industrial robots to its industrial internet of things platform, which the company calls “Ability”.

ABB Ability was launched only last year, but has grown quickly because of the vast number of machines and devices the industrial giant already has in operation out in the world.

The company appears to consider the industrial internet a central part of its business and has been developing a variety of services for application on it. [Read more…] about ABB claims to have connected 7,000 of its industrial robots to its IIoT platform

General Electric deepening its interest in the software business

General Electric claims it was the first company to have launched an industrial internet of things platform when it released Predix last year.

The company’s software business unit, GE Digital, has been generating revenues of more than $4 billion a year, and looks like it’s strongly influencing the future direction of the overall business.

Another of the big ideas at GE is the “Brilliant Factory” concept, which is essentially the digitalisation of anything and everything that can be digitised in a manufacturing or industrial process. [Read more…] about General Electric deepening its interest in the software business