Industry 4.0 Is Heading to the Warehouse. Are You Ready?
Industry 4.0 will revolutionize and protect your warehouse and therefore your entire business. It will allow you to understand what is happening in real-time and know that any necessary changes will take place in real-time
The Industrial IoT Risks You Must Not Ignore in 2018
Scott Allen for Sys-Con Media: Security, therefore, will ultimately be the limiting factor on how much IoT technology is deployed.
Making it in America: Revitalizing US Manufacturing.
At the cutting edge of this trend are new types of human-machine interactions, such as virtual reality, next-generation design tools, 3-D printing, and collaborative robots. As these complementary technologies begin to link multiple factories with designers, supply-chain partners, distributors, and customers, the sector can form more dynamic digital networks and turn around the trend of slowing productivity growth.
What We Can Learn From the Second Life of Google Glass
Thomas Hornigold for Singularity Hub: The difference here was the specific audience: workers in factories who need hands-free computing because they need to use their hands at the same time.
Expanding the Definition of HMI
Todays HMIs (Human Machine Interfaces) go beyond pushbuttons to incorporate high resolution, multi-touch and haptic technologies.
SCADAfence Secures $10 Million in Funding to Protect Smart Manufacturing and Critical Infrastructure Networks from Cyber Attacks
Investors include JVP, NexStar Partners and Japan's Global Brain; funds will be used to boost go-to-market efforts and expand research and development operations
The Next Wave of Job Opportunities, Brought to You by the IoT
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Its also important to look at the bigger picture. When machines do the grunt work, humans are able to solve bigger problems or spend their time in more interesting ways. This shift may well enable the next level of creative culture - the next space race, or a new Enlightenment, perhaps?
Speeding the Industrial Design Process with Modern Calculation Management
In the current climate of industrial trucking products, truck manufacturing companies are striving to improve their products in more efficient ways than ever.
Emerson sweetens bid for Rockwell Automation to $29 billion
Greg Roumeliotis for Reuters: The new offer follows Rockwells rejections of Emersons overtures for much of this year.
Can US Boost Manufacturing 25% By 2025?
Industry Week: A new McKinsey report predicts that manufacturing GDP would climb to $3 trillion in real terms by 2025-a boost of some $530 billion, or 20%, above the current trend.
Top Smart Factory Capabilities Today for the Manufacturers of Tomorrow
Overall, the capabilities afforded by IIoT mean that these technologies are not just short-term investments or solutions to immediate problems; rather, they enable continuous improvement by providing companies with the ability to solve new problems as they arise-compounding the value of the investment over time.
Test Drive Watson IoT in Factory Simulation
John Hitch for Industry Week: IBM's Watson IoT sees all and might even know it all. In a new simulation, you can feel what it likes to have it working for you.
Food and Beverage Survey Shows Increasing Output is a Major Driver for Integrating Robots
Adding robot systems to any stage in food and beverage manufacturing will help to increase throughput. Robots work consistently, around-the-clock allowing for dependable production rates. The latest innovations increase production flexibility and decrease changeover time.
Britain must embrace 'Industry 4.0' as robots can create thousands of jobs, says report
Purvai Dua for London Loves Business: Britains manufacturing sector could add £455bn over the next decade and create thousands of jobs if it unlocks the fourth industrial revolution
Rockwell Automation Invests in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Industrial Automation
Rockwell Automation today announced its investment in The Hive, a Silicon Valley innovation fund and co-creation studio, to gain access to an ecosystem of innovators and technology start-ups with a focus on applications of artificial intelligence (AI) to industrial automation.
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