Make manufacturing truly smart by scaling OEE
To get a high-level understanding of the importance Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) in realizing return on smart manufacturing investments, check out this companion article. So how do you make that …
Understanding the importance of OEE in smart manufacturing
Overall Equipment Effectiveness is a key gauge of smart manufacturing ROI Technology investments are made to solve specific business problems. In our technology-enabled world, enterprises of all sorts are allocating …
Platforms, machines, glasses – and cows (reading the 2021 IIoT ‘tea leaves’ with ABI)
About $32 billion will be spent on industrial IoT platforms for smart manufacturing by 2025, and the number of industrial AR connections will surge by 57 percent per year in …
Understanding the relationship between a digital twin and a digital thread
Digital twin and digital twin drive process improvement within and beyond a factory Digital transformation is a broad term that means many things to many people. But, at its core, …
Hitachi installs a dedicated 5G network, tests robot/human collaboration
Hitachi has installed a dedicated 5G network at its Silicon Valley Research Center, part of the Hitachi America’s research and development division. The installation, done in partnership with Ericsson, will …
Smart manufacturing will drive 10-fold jump in AI-based IoT services – to $10bn by 2026
The IoT market for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) services will reach $1.09 billion in 2020 and grow to about 10-times the size, to $10.6 billion, by 2026, …
Altran White Paper: Digital Twins – Creating Digital Operations Today to Deliver Business Value Tomorrow
Companies in almost every industry are looking to digital twin technologies to drive meaningful business outcomes across the entire product development life cycle, from ideation and production to manufacturing, support …
Solving the climate crisis with Industry 4.0 (Reader Forum)
We are currently facing a climate crisis that is becoming more severe with every continent it affects. Despite multiple warnings, energy usage continues to grow and countries are falling behind …
South Korean carriers increase presence in the smart factory field
South Korea’s telecommunications operators have launched new smart factory solutions with the aim of helping manufacturers overcome the economic slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Korean news service Yonhap …
Hitachi, Microsoft partner for manufacturing and logistics digital solutions
Predictive maintenance, process automation focus use cases Hitachi and Microsoft Corp. announced a multi-year strategic alliance to accelerate the digital transformation of the manufacturing and logistics industries across Southeast Asia, …
