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HoloLens is being worn for a variety of efficient use cases. The metaverse is starting to show up in some fascinating places and work environments. In this video clip from "The Virtual Opportunities Show" on Motley Fool Live, recorded on May 31, Fool.com contributor Rachel Warren...
Mr Thitipan says Nokia is keen to provide industrial-grade private wireless networks that have proven to be a critical enabler to accelerate Industry 4.0. The telecom regulator should allocate spectrum ranges for enterprise usage through its licensing regime in order to drive the Industry 4.0...
Evolving on the grounds of technology, followed by a global push to be digitally active, businesses in industry 4.0 must take human-machine interactions and data derived from it to the next-level. Predictive-insights has been a long-standing buzzword. It is a gray area for some, for others it is...
PIKOM CIO chapter chairman Malik Murad Ali (centre) with Microsoft Malaysia managing director K.Raman (left) and SAP managing director Hong Kok Cheong (right). KUALA LUMPUR: The National Tech Association of Malaysia (PIKOM) urges local businesses to double their digital transformation...
At some point or another in our lives, we have definitely heard of and most likely consumed it: Pepsi. The iconic American cult drink can be found in almost every supermarket around the world – stored in plastic bottles. For the popular drink, with its unique taste, the New York-based company...
Putting Pharma 4.0 principles into practice, and how a crucial foundation for doing so is the digitation of technology transfer in the life sciences enterprise. Digital transformation is a major undertaking for any manufacturer. But factor in the mission critical, highly regulated, and...
Everybody knows the saying, “Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.” But what if you build a better way to build a mousetrap? Will the world still come knocking? For many manufacturers, the answer may be no—or at least not right...
Software Defined Automation releases a complete solution for control engineers to overcome tight coupling of hardware and software in factory automation, as well as the limited spillover of innovations from information technology to industrial real-time control. SDA Industrial-Control-as-a-Service...
Japanese cultivated protein startup IntegriCulture recently launched its CulNet Consortium, an open innovation platform dedicated to cellular agriculture. With twelve companies on board, the platform aims to accelerate and scale cell-based solutions across the meat, cosmetics, nutraceuticals and...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s manufacturing industry stands to benefit most from robotics as its processes involve repetitive work in confined and structured spaces, environments that robots excel in, said Universal Robots. The Denmark-based collaborative robots (cobots) technology market leader...
HCM City (VNS/VNA) - As technology develops and demand keeps increasing in the property sector, proptech will develop in a similar way to fintech, experts have said. Proptech, or property technology, has developed strongly in Vietnam with many start-ups being launched and attracting...
SINGAPORE - Last month's ransomware attack on Brazilian food giant JBS - the world's largest meat processor - highlighted the cyber-security weaknesses of companies in the food industry. And those in Singapore are similarly vulnerable, even though there have been no documented or known cases so...
SINGAPORE - Semiconductor manufacturer GlobalFoundries is increasing its production capacity in Singapore with a hefty US$4 billion (S$5.4 billion) investment. The addition of a new fab, or manufacturing plant, here comes amid a global chip shortage and is expected to add around...
Interspectral has entered into a new agreement with The W.M Keck Center for 3D innovation at The University of Texas in El Paso, US. The unique multi-disciplinary additive manufacturing research facility will now under a new development and license agreement get early access to...
A FLAW in the dental industry lies in how some dentists prescribe treatment plans simply because they prefer certain procedures. This comes at the expense of patients, said Ng Chin Siau, chief executive of Q&M Dental Group. In 2018, Q&M established a company,... ARTICLE BY THE BUSINESS...
Where the air used to vibrate with the sounds of heavy manufacturing, it now resonates with the buzz of new technologies and collaboration at the Tonsley Innovation District, as what was once home to Chrysler and Mitsubishi manufacturers is transformed into Line Zero – Factory of the...
HONG KONG, June 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Prism®, a global leader in intelligent automation, today announced that the HKEX has won the APAC Pinnacle Award, the highest honor given by Blue Prism at its annual Customer Excellence Awards. The APAC Pinnacle Award recognizes the...
While the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 is said to have dealt a knockout blow to the global economy unseen since the Great Depression, its repercussions continue to linger on as we move towards the close of the first half of 2021. And no sooner had we thought that the worst of the pandemic was over,...
As part of an aggressive US$1 billion plan to expand its presence across Southeast Asia, Alibaba Cloud will be launching its first data center in the Philippines by the end of this year. The objective is to extend the reach of its services including elastic compute, databases, security,...
SINGAPORE-BASED growth-stage technology fund Vertex Growth Fund has raised US$15 million from Korea Venture Investment Corporation's (KVIC) Foreign Venture Capital (VC) Investment Fund. Anchored by Vertex Venture Holdings, the Singapore-based VC arm of investment firm Temasek Holdings, the fund...
Nvidia has launched a new version of its Isaac robot simulation engine in the Omniverse, the company’s metaverse sim for engineers. The Omniverse started years ago as a proprietary Nvidia project called Holodeck, named after the virtual reality simulation...
Hyundai Motor Group, Boston Dynamics, Inc. and SoftBank Group Corp. announced the completion of Hyundai's acquisition of a controlling interest in Boston Dynamics from SoftBank, following the receipt of regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. The deal valued the mobile robot...
LONDON: Intel on Monday said it will work with India's Reliance Jio to develop 5G networking technology. Intel's venture capital unit last year invested US$250 million in Reliance Industries Ltd's Jio Platforms unit, saying the two companies would find areas of technology partnership. On Monday,...
China's textile industry, driven by technological innovation, is embarking on its intelligent manufacturing journey. Nowadays, the textile industry is one of the most active industrial sectors in China in terms of scientific and technological innovation. Some 11 achievements in the textile...
Google Cloud has tied up with quantum computing startup IonQ to make its quantum hardware accessible through its cloud computing platform. The company’s 11-qubit quantum hardware is available to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) customers, and the company expects to...
In 2018, Sekar Udayamurthy, Krishna Iyengar and Vinodh Venkatesan founded Jidoka Technologies to explore the opportunity in automated QC (quality control) solutions. “Jidoka stands for a principle that advocates ‘intelligent automation’ or ‘automation with a human touch....
Hong Kong-based digital technology park Cyberport has revealed that the application stage for the initial phase of its Fintech Proof-of-Concept (PoC) Subsidy Scheme has now closed. The initiative reportedly received more than 80 applications. The scheme has been commissioned...
The industrial internet of things (IIoT or Industry 4.0) has spurring the inclusion of data-network connectivity on nearly all industrial components — including industrial power supplies. After all, precise monitoring, diagnostics, automation, and control have become critical requirements in...
SLM Solutions invites the industry to a game-changing product launch on June 23 at 5pm CEST. The launch will take place digitally and will be accessible to everyone at https://www.slm-solutions.com/the-big-launch. The new product empowers the creation of metal components with previously...
Unilever and PepsiCo have goals to design 100% of packaging to be reusable, recyclable, compostable, or biodegradable by 2025. Companies like Zume – formerly a robotics pizza company – are trying to make the compostable transition easier for brands, brokers and...
Hanoi (VNA) – IT firms are ready to complete e-commerce platforms for farmers, unveiled Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung at a teleconference on digital transformation in agriculture and rural development held on June 18.Businesses’...
Intel has built a 5G smart factory “from the ground up” to demonstrate the benefits of Industry 4.0 digitalisation. The end-to-end smart factory is based in Verona, Italy and is based on Intel Atom and Xeon Scalable processors, Intel FPGAs, and Intel Edge Controls for...
IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organisation dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, concluded its virtual roundtable focussed on how technologies like robotics and blockchain are driving transformation in the healthcare sector. With the pandemic emphasising the...
LOCAL manufacturing software company Arcstone and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) on Thursday opened a joint laboratory to develop smart manufacturing solutions that will boost digital transformation in the industry. A total of S$18 million will be invested over the next...
The acquisition is part of Siemens’ digital transformation said AJ Incorvaia, senior vice president, Siemens Digital Industries Software, Electronic Board Systems , putting Supplyframe as the nucleus for the company’s digital marketplace strategy to provide market intelligence and...
The drive towards fully automated warehouses is stronger than ever before. Warehouse automation suppliers and industry consultants agree that a bigger spotlight has put on the use of automation in warehouses worldwide. LogisticsIQ’s latest post-pandemic market research study...
Logistics has long been known as a traditional industry associated with manual labour and repetitive tasks. Often held back by legacy processes and dated IT systems, logistics companies are increasingly aware of the need to harness technology to stay competitive in a fast-moving industry. The...
QUANTICO, VA -- Marine Corps System Command’s Advanced Manufacturing Operations Cell collaborated with 1st Supply Battalion and industry partners to develop a 3D-printed metal steering wheel removal device. This innovative solutions helps solve a common problem among vehicle maintenance...
WALTHAM, Mass., June 16, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Light & Strong, a manufacturer of advanced composite parts for the aerospace and defense industry, deployed Plataine's AI and IIoT based software to optimize and automate its operations. The new solution will deliver...
STOCKHOLM: Vodafone said on Wednesday (Jun 16) it has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to launch "edge computing" services for its business customers in the UK. "Edge computing" uses augmented reality and machine learning to analyse bulk data where it was gathered - whether factory floor,...
South Korea plans to deploy moving robots on guard missions and establish an artificial intelligence (AI)-based surveillance system in border areas to beef up border security, the arms procurement agency said Tuesday.Under the "rapid acquisition" project worth 2.8 billion won ($2.5 million), the...
Digitimes, an Asia-based premium source of tech supply chain information, undertook a six-month study on the financial reports of 4,725 publicly listed corporations across 11 countries in Asia and compiled its first annual report on the top 100 Asian... ARTICLE BY DIGITIMESasia
NEW DELHI: Siemens on Tuesday said it will supply advanced power transmission equipment with integrated digital technologies to Icon Steel, Geetai Steels and Gajkesari Steels & Alloys. The installation includes 11 bays of state-of-the-art 132 kilovolts (kV) gas-insulated switchgear (GIS),...
ENTREPRENEURS, particularly for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), can now strengthen their digital agenda via the MARii Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform developed by the Malaysia Automotive, Robotics and IoT Institute (MARii). MARii CEO Datuk Madani...
AUSTIN, Texas, June 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Essentium, Inc., a worldwide leader in industrial additive manufacturing (AM), today announced the third in a series of findings from independent global research on the current and future use of industrial 3D printing. The survey found an...
NETANYA, Israel, June 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Packaging Machinery professionals use IO-Link Wireless to drive machine flexibility, adaptivity and capacity to new levels. Designed for industrial automation, the cable-grade reliable and scalable communications protocol and...
There have been many column inches extolling the virtues of 5G. We’ve been told it will revolutionise manufacturing, improve efficiency and productivity, and ultimately lead us to the smart factories of the future. But for most manufacturing firms, the idea of 5G and its lauded benefits still...
Schneider Electric - Around the world, edge computing is emerging as a linchpin of digital transformation initiatives. From remote locations within airports, seaports, or transportation networks for rail or road traffic, to dangerous or inhospitable niches located on factory floors, IT...
The £5.6 million CW4.0 initiative is aimed at helping manufacturers through every stage of digital transformation. It will offer expertise on understanding emerging technology and help businesses looking to trial and implement new tech such as sensors, advanced scanning, artificial...
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill., June 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Omron Automation Americas recently announced Armo-Tool Ltd., an automation solution provider in North America, as a new partner in its Certified Systems Integrator program. Armo-Tool's strong knowledge of automation and...
BANGKOK (REUTERS) - A series of coronavirus outbreaks in Thai factories is raising concerns that the export sector could be hit hard, threatening to further undermine an economy as it struggles to recover from the pandemic's crippling blow to the crucial tourism industry. The virus has swept...
CupixWorks 2.0 is a major update to CupixWorks from Cupix. It allows building owners, general contractors, and project managers to capture their site in a 3D digital twin and manage it remotely via 3D spatial contexts with life-like 3D navigation. Users can take themselves to levels, areas,...
The successful ingredients of any business lies in the way performance management is addressed and managed. It's crucial for the success of any business entity. Employee engagement, Customer Relationship Management, Thought Leadership, High performance cultures, Professional growth of employees,...
Can the Production Linked Incentive scheme be a game changer? One of the grander schemes launched in India during the ongoing pandemic that has been uniformly lauded is the Rs 1.97 trillion (US$27 bn) Production Linked Incentive Scheme for boosting manufacturing. Over five years, selected...
A jungle isn’t a place you normally associate with modern automation technology, but for Pluspetrol it was the best way to solve a long-standing problem: How to easily access process information generated by five field sites in the Ecuadorian jungle from its headquarters in...
As with any new technology, Digital twins can create as many questions as answers. There can be a natural resistance, especially among senior utility executives who are used to the old ways and need a compelling case to invest in new ones. So is digital twin just...
Augmented Reality: if you haven’t heard of it, you are not alone. You’ve probably experienced it without even knowing it. Augmented reality allows brands to offer unique and immersive digital experiences, and engage customers in an unforgettable way. This emerging trend is...
Gantry Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMM) have been extensively used throughout manufacturing industry to support the precision inspection of large parts in the aerospace, construction and agricultural equipment, die and mold. military and heavy fabrication industries. With the rise of 3D...
