
Nvidia, Siemens chart the future of the industrial metaverse
Combining Nvidia’s Omniverse and Siemens’ Xcelerator enables ‘full-fidelity digital twins’ Nvidia and Siemens have announced a collaboration that the two businesses promise will transform the manufacturing industry. The collaboration pairs …

Between the lines, Vodafone study asks how to sell to SMEs just trying to “stay afloat”
Whatever Vodafone’s intention when polling 1,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK, and whatever its conclusion from their responses, one thing is also clear: business is hard in …

Europe, Asia Pacific lead smart cities index – for connectivity, services, engagement
In order, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Beijing, London, and Seoul ranked as the top five smart cities, or ‘digital cities’, in a new study by Economist Impact. New York, Sydney, Singapore, Washington …

Integration, simplification, multiplication – three signs private 5G has come of age
This is a rehash (and extension, in the end) of a previous post, to an extent; but it distils the message from before, and says there are sure signs, at …

Siemens buys UK industrial IoT firm Senseye for global smart factory push
Siemens has acquired UK-based industrial IoT firm Senseye for an undisclosed fee. Senseye, founded in 2014, provides analytics-based (“AI-powered”) predictive maintenance solutions for industrial machines, offering ways to manage and …

Nokia integrates Azure Arc into MXIE bundle for mission-critical Industry 4.0
Nokia is to integrate Microsoft’s Azure Arc cloud management platform into its MX Industrial Edge (MXIE) solution for mission-critical Industry 4.0 environments. The tie-up will afford customers buying private wireless …
BT to invest £100m to put UK enterprises in ‘digital fast lane’ and ‘soup-up security’
UK telecoms group BT has revealed a ‘charter’ to invest almost £100 million over the next three years in its new Division X digital change unit, which is at the …
Bosch to make billions with green tech – 5G, IoT, AI subsumed in green Industry 4.0 push
German industrial giant Bosch has shifted its messaging, perhaps, in time for Hannover Messe, Europe’s big industrial trade fair, which sees its return next week after three calendar years of …

Augmented manufacturing: ‘The robots are your friends, not the enemy’
Humans are the key piece of successfully implementing digital change in augmented manufacturing Speaking during a World Economic Forum panel discussion today, industrial leaders drove home the point that the …

Unplug-and-play – 5G is the future of factory automation (Reader Forum)
The latest developments in cloud-based AI and edge computing, coupled with 5G’s enhanced bandwidth, are about to mobilise robots like never before and unleash a manufacturing revolution, explains Richard Cockle, …