Company Investment

Renewable energy such as wind power suffers from intermittant generation capacity. Image courtesy of Wikipedia - Chris Lim.

Alphabet makes move into energy storage

An artist's impression of a Volocopter air taxi service. Image courtesy of Volocopter.

Volocopter receives €25m in investment

Social Network of Things - Internet of Things - Smart Factory - Connected Machines

Smart Factory

How are manufacturers creating connected factories?

Stock Image Manufacturing Factory Sustainability Process and demonstrating servitization.

Robotics & Automation

Benefits of automating service parts inventory management

The substantial investment in digitalisation will support the exploration of new business models, solutions and services for customer, alongside upskilling and training staff – image courtesy of Evonik.

Digital Transformation

Speciality chemical firm pours €100m into digitalisation

Mabey’s Compact 200 system uses standard, interchangeable steel components to provide robust, rapidly deployed and erected solutions for permanent, temporary, footbridges and emergency bridging applications, among others – image courtesy of Mabey.

Robotics & Automation

Cutting-edge robots halve production time for bridge manufacturer

Samsung Washing Machines recently won the 'Ergonomic Design Award' at the Asian Conference on Ergonomics and Design - image courtesy of Samsung

Digital Transformation

Samsung set to expand US operations with new $380m South Carolina manufacturing plant

The advanced manufacturing facility will also be used to experiment with new technologies including graphene, 3D printing and nanocomposites - image courtesy of GE

Innovation

Breaking additive manufacturing into the mainstream

The semiconductor market is set to grow by more than 5% annually up to 2019, with the IoT technology market growing especially strongly - image courtesy of Pixabay

Digital Transformation

Bosch invests €1bn in IoT technology

IoT

Fashion Runway Model Textiles Stock Image

Is it possible to successfully relaunch a luxury brand?

Full Supply Chain Optimization incorporates many interrelated facets - image courtesy of APS

Digital Transformation

Optimising your supply chain – what the most advanced companies are doing differently