
European tech giants buying digital startups, China buying European tech giants
Traditional industrial technology giants are transforming their businesses by buying, funding or partnering with connected and intelligent manufacturing technologies and data management companies. The trend is most notable in Europe, …

Microsoft mixes gaming and industry to make HoloLens 2 the king of MWC gadgets
Mobile World Congress (MWC) is an operator show, run by the GSMA operator group, that has always looked and sounded like a handsets show, dominated by device makers. On Sunday …

State of things | Smart manufacturing (part 4): Buying digital change
This article is the fourth 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Talking heads: What to consider when matching industrial IoT use cases to edge-cloud setups
Jean-Philippe Provencher, vice president, manufacturing strategy and solutions, PTC “The governing factors are the facilities, the cost of downtime, and speed of product development. “Cloud computing could hit a snag …

Exhaust pipes, SCADA systems and sausages: Five smart manufacturing use cases
Momentum is building, fast, for smart manufacturing. Here, Enterprise IoT Insights presents five more use cases from leading industrial IoT (IIoT) solutions providers. Also, check out the major new report …

Appetite for smart manufacturing grows, but the market remains troubled and confused
The appetite for new digital technologies is growing among manufacturers, with certain brands in certain sectors in certain regions experiencing a considerable uplift in performance. But the take-up of smart …

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 …