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Carlsberg makes beer taps smart with cellular IoT and cloud analytics

Danish IoT MVNO Onomondo has been appointed to supply global IoT connectivity to brewing company Carlsberg Group to connect draught beer taps in pubs, bars, and restaurants around the world. The solution includes an IoT management platform, integrated into Carlsberg’s new DaughtMaster cloud analytics...

Verizon deploys private 5G for Deloitte Industry 4.0 showcase at Wichita State

Verizon has deployed a private 5G network at the 5,500 square-metre ‘smart factory’ at Wichita State University in Kansas, in the US. The showcase facility, dubbed Smart Factory @ Wichita, is on the university’s science research campus. It is sponsored and “convened” by the...

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 reduce unplanned downtime and to boost productivity and sustainability. The firm, headquartered in Southampton, was...

Ericsson, BT ink deal to provide private 5G networks in the UK

Private networks enable new applications and IoT capabilities such as asset tracking, predictive maintenance and connected sensors BT and Ericsson announced a new partnership to provide commercial 5G private networks for the UK market, the latter said in a release. The two companies have signed a...

Orange Business Services leverages AI for IT

Orange Business Services says its Service Manage-Watch helps IT departments wrangle service monitoring using AI-based predictive modeling.

Lufthansa Technik, United Airlines intro predictive MRO for Boeing, Airbus operators

German airline services company Lufthansa Technik has introduced new condition monitoring tools for Airbus and Boeing operators, available with its AVIATAR digital platform. The new releases have come out of a year-long joint-project with United Airlines to combine their engineering know-how and data science...

‘All the capabilities to be a front-runner’ – OBS and the SI model for Industry 4.0

Note, this article is continued from a previous entry, under the headline: 'A "different beast" in the telco pack – often it’s not about 5G at all, says Orange'. For the first instalment, go here. We should rewind, and hit play again on the Safran...

The year of industrial AI – so long as it is underpinned and understood (Bosch on 2022)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is gaining momentum as a key technology for industrial applications and will be one of the big focus topics in 2022. Many companies are curious and open to try out new AI functionalities. Their goal is usually quite simple: greater production...

5G manufacturing use case spotlight: Troubleshooting using a digital twin

One of the ways digital twinning of production facilities is expected to help manufacturers is in the area of maintenance and repair

What’s the role of edge computing in 5G manufacturing?

Edge computing offers several benefits for 5G manufacturing, such as lower latency, increased cybersecurity and a better management of data

Top 5 5G manufacturing use cases

To further explore the intersection of 5G and manufacturing, register for the 5G Manufacturing Forum.  There is no doubt that the emergence of 5G technology will have a great impact  in the way Industry 4.0 manufacturers, or “smart factories,” produce and distribute goods. The key...

Four breakout enterprise IoT use cases in 2021 (Reader Forum)

According to a new study, IoT has made the top of the list of the most important technologies of 2021. Additionally, the market for commercial and industrial IoT is booming, with manufacturing taking the largest share of enterprise IoT implementations. There’s no doubt that recent...

Machine learning, AI aids network incident prediction, prevention

What if nearly every network operation could be predicted using machine learning and AI? Ericsson launched its Operations Engine in January to assist communications service providers with moving away from incident driven and reactive operations to predictive and preventative operations. The engine, which leverages machine...

IBM intros industrial AI and IoT suite to help manage asset downtime and maintenance

IBM has introduced a new suite of industrial internet of things (IoT) solutions for preventative and predictive downtime and maintenance that leverage artificial intelligence and advanced analytics. The solution will reduce the risk of failure of physical assets including vehicles, manufacturing robots, turbines, mining...

AT&T gets a lift with KONE predictive maintenance deal in US, Canada, Mexico

Lift maker KONE has selected AT&T to connect it elevators and escalators in North America in order to gather data, enable predictive maintenance, and improve safety and performance. AT&T said it had been chosen to provide internet-of-things (IoT) “connectivity and service management”. The pair will...

Train reliability can jump 30% with predictive maintenance, claim Nokia and Altran

Telecoms vendor Nokia and engineering firm Altran have announced a predictive maintenance solution to streamline the upkeep of trains from all manufacturers. Nokia said it will make trains up to 30 per cent more reliable in terms of their availability, and 20 per cent more...

Huawei unveils new solution to predict network risks, control failures

  Huawei’s Robust Network Service has been already tested by a number of telcos in China, Europe and Latin America MUNICH, GERMANY- Huawei released a new offering dubbed Robust Network Service to measure network health, predict network risks and control failures. The new solution applies artificial intelligence...

How Intel is using IIoT edge computing to reduce factory downtime by 300%

Semiconductor maker Intel has applied predictive maintenance to monitor the health of its fan filter
units (FFUs) in its semiconductor production facilities through deployment of industrial IoT (IIoT) sensors and edge computing. The idea was to alert technicians to potential problems, define a proactive maintenance...

IIC sets up automation testbed for print industry with Fujitsu, IBM, RTI, Toshiba

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has established a ‘smart printing factory testbed’ in collaboration with Fujitsu, IBM, Real-Time Innovations (RTI) and Toshiba to develop technologies to help the printing industry automate production and maintenance processes. The IIC said the group is using the testbed to...

Motor cars and gas turbines: Two ‘predictive downtime’ use cases from Hitachi

As we have seen already, through separate discussion of Hitachi’s approach to ‘predictive quality’ and ‘dynamic scheduling’, the digital transformation of industry is multi-faceted. There is a third way, apart from managing defects and bottlenecks, for industrial operatives to set about this change, the...

Operationalizing SDN with machine learning and artificial intelligence (Reader Forum)

Quo vadis SDN in provider networks? With its promise of network simplification and new revenue streams, software-defined networking has certainly captured the interest of service providers. At its core, this technology is about disaggregating physical network functions from software control, creating an ecosystem of open...

Zamboni works with Digi International on customized IoT product

Connected ice re-surfacer represents an IoT product-as-a-service Name two companies that make ice re-surfacers. I'll wait. Seriously though, Zamboni is the gold-standard in ice re-surfacers--the things that smooth out skating rinks between periods in a hockey match, among other uses--so much so that the machine...

Three predictive maintenance case studies

Predictive maintenance brings efficiencies to aircraft, train and elevator operations As the internet of things (IoT) drives the digital transformation of a variety of industries, predictive maintenance has emerged as a key use case. The ability to use sensor-based monitoring to identify and mitigate mechanical...

How the IoT is improving efficiency in the railroad industry

Predictive maintenance is a key IoT use case that's improving railroad operations At a high level, the internet of things (IoT) is all about maximizing asset availability, reliability and efficiency. This is highlighted in the railroad industry, both passenger and cargo, where timelines has a...