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Software AG intros new TrendMiner client for industrial AI in process manufacturing

Belgium-based advanced analytics firm TrendMiner, part of German software vendor Software AG, has released an upgraded production client for industrial analytics in process manufacturing industries. The new TrendMiner release – literally, for mining analytics trends in time-series data – caters to OT-side industrial operators,...

Lufthansa Technik doubles-down on private 5G in Hamburg workshops

Lufthansa Technik, which has arguably set down the definitive private 5G deployment in the Industry 40 sector, has extended its private 5G network in Hamburg, Germany, to a second aircraft engine ‘overhaul workshop’, it has announced. The firm is now running remote parts inspection...

US IoT firm Ubicquia secures $25m debt to scale supply, launch in Europe and Asia

US-based IoT provider Ubicquia has entered a new $25 million debt and working capital facility with Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). The facility will be used to accelerate growth, facilitate larger supply chain commitments and manage working capital requirements driven by increasing orders from OEM...

5G manufacturing use case spotlight: Additive manufacturing

Additive manufacturing is a transformative approach to industrial production that enables the creation of lighter, stronger parts and systems

SIs in trouble, hyperscalers indifferent – the case for carrier-led private 5G

Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled ‘Software AG, StarHub and the blueprint for carrier-led industrial private 5G’, available here. Bernd Gross, chief technology officer at Software AG, is presenting the case for telcos as the go-to agents for private 5G. He...

Seeq teams up on industrial IoT for utilities, oil and gas, manufacturing in Asia Pacific

Seattle-based industrial analytics company Seeq, a star of industrial IoT on the venture capital scene, is targeting the power and utilities, oil and gas, semiconductor, chemical, and process manufacturing industries, after striking a deal with Philippines-based industrial IoT provider Calibr8 Systems. Seeq, founded in 2014,...

New $600m military 5G fund puts focus on smart logistics, industrial AR/VR

A new $600 million round of funding by the US Department of Defense (DOD) is being made available for testing military-grade and industrial-grade 5G. The investment will go into smart logistics and industrial AR and VR systems, alongside combat-orientated aircraft and missile communications and...

GE Healthcare, Microsoft launch cloud-based COVID-19 patient monitoring software

A single cloud-based software installation can monitor a 100-bed, multi-site ICU GE Healthcare is collaborating with Microsoft to launch a cloud-based COVID-19 patient monitoring software for health systems, and hospitals will only need to pay the installation costs for the software until January 2021. Pre-COVID-19, GE Healthcare’s Mural Virtual...

Coal, copper and gold – three smart mines, digging with data

1 | Anglo American, Capcoal coal mine, Queensland, Australia British mining company Anglo American has just started work in Australia on what it envisions as “one of the most technologically advanced underground mines in the world”. It is pumping $226 million into the expansion of...

Current and IMS Evolve join on cold chain IoT solution, strike deal with US retailer

GE lighting division Current has paired up with UK industrial IoT company IMS Evolve on an IoT solution for making energy savings in cold chain storage for clients in the food retail sector. The joint platform combines Current’s Daintree wireless controls infrastructure and IMS Evolve’s...

State of things | Smart manufacturing (part 3): Use case modelling

This article is the third instalment in a series taken from a longer report, Smart manufacturing: asset management, predictive maintenance, dynamic scheduling and other use cases, from August 2018. The report tells the story of smart manufacturing in four chapters. The first two examine the...

State of things | Smart manufacturing (part 2): An alternative truth

This article is the second instalment in a series taken from a longer report, Smart manufacturing: asset management, predictive maintenance, dynamic scheduling and other use cases, from August 2018. The report tells the story of smart manufacturing in four chapters. The first two examine the...

State of things | Smart manufacturing (part 1): The hype and the glory

This article is taken from a longer report, Smart manufacturing: asset management, predictive maintenance, dynamic scheduling and other use cases, from August 2018. The report tells the story of smart manufacturing in four chapters. The first two examine the expectations surrounding the IIoT movement (‘The...

GE announces plans to establish new software company focusing on IIoT

  The new, independent firm will combine GE Digital’s IIoT solutions and GE Power Digital and Grid Software Solutions businesses   GE announced plans to establish a new, independent company focused on building an industrial internet of things (IIoT) software portfolio. GE said that the new company --...

San Diego and Current deploy 1,000 more street-light nodes, new smart city apps

The City of San Diego has extended its smart street lighting network with another 1,000 sensor nodes, and new applications for parking, traffic and public safety. San Diego has worked with Current, the GE-owned lighting firm, on the project. AT&T is providing the LTE connectivity...

Investor confidence rises as venture capital funds start to flow into IIoT market

Investor confidence in the burgeoning industrial ‘internet-of-things’ (IIoT) market is up, reckon industry commentators. A slew of enterprise funds and venture capital has been staked on the sector’s growth in recent months, as vendors have got a better grasp of the technology and industrialists have...

Regret, but no surprise – the market responds to the demise of GE Digital

The market’s response to reports of the impending sale of GE Digital combined both regret, that the company’s barnstorming run as a digital-change agent is potentially over, and a distinct lack of surprise, that its parent’s performance and culture has finally told against it. Reports,...

From AI to AR: The top 10 (+1) smart manufacturing platforms

A new investigation by analyst house ABI Research has ranked the top smart manufacturing platforms, and placed PTC’s ThingWorx top of the pile. PTC has ranked at the top consistently in recent research into the leading digital factory platforms. ThingWorx scored highest for augmented reality...

“The future is digital,” says GE chief, as GE Digital is put up for sale

General Electric (GE) is looking for a buyer for its GE Digital business, following revenue losses. However, its chief executive has moved to distance the company from reports its broader digital strategy is on the chopping block too. The Wall Street Journal said this week...

Nokia offers CityIQ platform from GE to cities in Canada; DimOnOff and Microsoft team up

Nokia is to offer GE’s CityIQ platform technology to municipalities in Canada to repurpose outdoor street lighting into digital infrastructure, and help with common challenges like parking and traffic management, public safety enhancements, and weather and air quality monitoring. The CityIQ platform, from GE’s lighting...

GE to integrate Predix with Azure, co-develop IIoT solutions with Microsoft

GE Digital will integrate its Predix portfolio with Microsoft Azure’s cloud capabilities, and standardise its Predix solutions on Microsoft Azure, it has announced. GE and Microsoft said they will also work together under the terms of an expanded partnership on the development, marketing, and sales...

Eight crucial technologies to drive the digital revolution in smart manufacturing

The move to a ‘lights-out’ factory has already begun, but the developing transition requires an overhaul of industrial facilities, equipment, systems and people if it is to go the distance. Transformation of the manufacturing industry, or ‘vertical’ in service-provider parlance, must also make way...

GE urges telcos to follow its lead on IIoT innovation

Telecoms carriers should urgently marry innovation with new working practices if they are to capitalise on the opportunity of the industrialised 'internet of things' (IoT), according to GE. Sue Siegel, the company’s chief innovation officer and chief executive of its business innovations unit, said at...

AT&T to integrate Cisco Kinetic into its smart city proposition

AT&T is looking to integrate Cisco’s Kinetic for Cities platform into a number of its own city-focused solutions, notably its Smart Cities Operations Center (SCOC) proposition, which collects data from multiple departments and services in a centralized dashboard. Cisco’s Kinetic for Cities is a...