
Bosch and SAP develop ‘digital industrial standard’ to spark Industry 4.0 fireworks
German pair Bosch and SAP are working to develop a “digital industrial standard” to govern the exchange and usage of company data along the value chain. The partnership holds special …

Research firm sees 10x increase in digital twin investment by 2025
Digital twin growth led by automotive, energy and manufacturing sectors At a high level, the goal of investing in the internet of things is to capture and analyze data from …

Siemens, SAP stitch together Industry 4.0 software for entwined digital thread
Siemens and SAP have agreed to offer each other’s industrial production software as complementary solutions in an integrated Industry 4.0 offer, enabling a digital thread between lifecycle management and business …

SAP recruits startups for Industry 4.0 foundries in Singapore, Tokyo and Berlin
SAP has announced a trio of Industry 4.0 initiatives in Singapore, Tokyo, and Berlin to help startups integrate with its solutions and customers. The programmes are run by so-called ‘foundry’ …

SAP intros Leonardo IoT, tightens integration with Azure IoT Hub
German software company SAP has launched a new internet of things (IoT) suite for its Leonardo platform, as well as closer cloud integration with Microsoft’s Azure IoT Hub. SAP Leonardo …

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 …

Siemens and SAP join Industry 4.0 initiative to move enterprises out of digital ‘pilot trap’
A new industrial consortium including SAP and Siemens has convened to help industrial organisations go beyond the ‘pilot trap’ with their Industry 4.0 deployments. The Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) …

German software giants cooperate to launch open smart city platform
SAP and Software AG said they have developed the new smart city platform in compliance with the standards of the EU’s open urban platform initiative German software companies …

IIC shows how to optimise assets in smart buildings, machines in smart factories
The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has announced results from a pair of testbeds investigating, alternatively, artificial intelligence (AI) for smart buildings management and ways to connect up old factories to …

Four “truly smart” smart cities – by SAP’s reckoning
What is a ‘smart city’, exactly? Is it a city with a neat collection of smart solutions, or is it one where everything works together to create new innovations? As …