Robots, robots, robots… and AI – How BMW is automating its supply chain functions
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1.8k suppliers, 31m parts, 10k vehicles – How BMW is making sense of its supply chain
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailBMW Group has a global roster of about 1,800 suppliers, scattered at 4,000 points across the globe. Together, they deliver 31 million parts to 30 BMW production sites, worldwide, every …
Lubbock plays catch-up with smart meters, to advance with smart city apps
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailItron has signed with Lubbock Power & Light (LP&L) to deploy smart electricity meters and management software to improve service for around 107,000 electricity customers in Texas. The move will …
AT&T mixes industry verticals and digital tech to brew-up new supply-chain magic
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe supply chain links the whole Industry 4.0 movement. For higher-grade operational intelligence to be brought to bear across the wider industrial market, the supply chain needs to mesh-in with …
Telstra teams up with Software AG on IoT package for water utilities
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailAustralian operator Telstra has recruited German IT and IoT integration company Software AG to help it devise a software solution for automated water management. Telstra already uses Software AG’s Cumulocity …
New “deep-tech” VC fund goes all-in for digital change, security and… cowgorithms
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailNew seed-stage private equity firm Ubiquity Ventures has made its first six investments in start-ups. Each of the companies selected for funding are in the industrial transformation or tech security …
NTT bundles in FogHorn’s edge AI software to round out industrial IoT offer
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailJapanese telecoms giant NTT is working with California-based industrial IoT software developer Foghorn to deliver edge-based machine intelligence to industrial clients. NTT-subsidiary NTT Data, offering systems-integration and IoT consultancy services, …
Japan Airlines and Accenture to trial AI-based service for passengers
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe new service will be initially implamented at Narita and Haneda airports in Tokyo Japan Airlines is working with Accenture on a new service that uses artificial intelligence to answer …
Industrial companies are building private networks because they have to, says Nokia
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailIndustrial companies will invest in their own private LTE and 5G networks because the business case for digital change is irresistible, and because they want control of their own infrastructure. …
“There are 1,500 IoT platforms; few know what they’re doing” – Software AG talks IoT tactics
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