Tag: smart factory
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Panasonic ramps up its smart factory solutions business in India
Panasonic has announced its plans to ramp up its smart factory solutions business in India. The company has integrated its welding business and SMT (Surface Mount Technology) equipment business to consolidate its software and hardware capabilities and become an end-to-end integrated Smart Manufacturing Solutions company. The smart factory solutions proposition will enable Panasonic to deliver…
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Infographic: Samsung’s foldable smartphone
The high level of interest in smart factory and automation technologies in South Korea is understandable – the country has the highest density of industrial robots per 1,000 workers in manufacturing of any nation on Earth. Additionally, some of its companies are not only global operations, they are household names all over the world. Samsung,…
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Hannover Messe highlights smart factory technologies and artificial intelligence
The world’s leading industrial technology event, Hannover Messe, is this year highlighting smart factory technologies and artificial intelligence. The organizers of the show have decided on the theme of “Industrial Intelligence”, which probably encapsulates the trends perfectly. However, its always going to be difficult to summarise what is going on such a large trade fair,…
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Kuka launches ‘smart factory as a service’ with partners
Industrial robot giant Kuka is partnering with two other companies to offer what it describes as a “SmartFactory as a Service”. The two other companies are insurance giant Munich Re and MHP, which is a process supplier and a subsidiary of Porsche, the automotive company. Kuka says the “revolutionary co-operation opens the door for new ideas”.
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Automotive industry could gain $160 billion through smart factory adoption, says report
Capgemini has announced a new report by its Digital Transformation Institute which reveals that the automotive industry can expect to achieve $160 billion in productivity gains annually from smart factory adoption from 2023 onwards. The report, Automotive Smart Factories: How Auto Manufacturers can Benefit from the Digital Industrial Revolution, which surveyed more than 320 automotive manufacturers, demonstrates that the…
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Hannover Messe: Bosch takes lead with 5G connectivity for industry and invests $100 million in new ‘smart factory’ in Mexico
Industrial giant Bosch is taking the lead in 5G connectivity in partnership with Nokia. The two companies have been demonstrating a number of 5G projects at Hannover Messe, probably among the first of their kind in the industrial sector. One of the experts working on the project explained that “most of the industry is cabled”,…
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Huawei partners with PCITC to develop smart factory technologies
Huawei is partnering with Petro-Cyberworks Information Technology Company to develop what the companies call “Smart Factory 2.0” technologies. The aim is to contribute to the progress made in energy conservation and emission reduction. In a statement, Huwaei says: “Our Earth faces increasingly grave environmental problems. “Although more people have realized the significance of environmental protection…
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Manufacturing in Silicon Valley: ASteelFlash develops its smart factory vision
When talking about Silicon Valley, most people usually think about Apple, Google, Facebook, startups and new technologies. But Silicon Valley has also been the seedbed of innovation for the advanced electronic manufacturing industry. That’s why electronics manufacturing company ASteelFlash says it is now implementing a pilot program at its Fremont, California facility targeted towards building…
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Industrial Internet Consortium launches smart factory machine learning platform
The Industrial Internet Consortium has launched what it calls the Smart Factory Machine Learning for Predictive Maintenance Testbed. The testbed is led by two companies, Plethora IIoT, and Xilinx. IIC says the testbed explores machine-learning techniques and evaluates algorithmic approaches for time-critical predictive maintenance.
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Festo and SAP combine to offer insight into the future of manufacturing
Companies say their Open Integrated Factory is designed to help people understand Industry 4.0 concepts What will manufacturing processes of the future look like, and what will be their defining features? Festo Didactic and SAP created the Open Integrated Factory giving an example on how shop floor and a Manufacturing Execution System can be linked successfully in…