This year’s Annual Manufacturing Report has shone a light on what the top three areas of planned expenditure in information communications technology (ICT) are for businesses over the next 12 months.
One of the world’s leading speciality chemicals companies, Evonik, has announced a €100m investment in digitalisation and has entered a strategic partnership with IBM and Germany’s Duisburg-Essen University.
Today, predictive maintenance is widely considered to be the obvious next step for any business with high-capital assets looking to harness machine learning to control rising equipment maintenance costs.
Volkswagen Group has announced virtual reality applications for production and logistics enabling engineers to meet in a virtual environment to exchange ideas between the German HQ and its manufacturing locations abroad.
Researchers from Melbourne universities in Australia have published new research into how bees perceive colour and revealed findings that could revolutionise cameras and robotic sensors.
More Australian businesses are planning, testing or implementing digital transformation strategies than the international average, according to a recent Global Digital Transformation Survey.
Artificial intelligence technologies could contribute more than $15tn to the world economy by 2030, according to a new report published by Price Waterhouse Coopers.
Ransomware attacks are rising in frequency and manufacturers are a key target for organised crime. Helen Saunders discusses the threats and outlines the steps you can take to minimise the damage to production, reputation and the bottom line.
Cambashi, an international, industry analyst company based in Cambridge, has just completed a research project into the industrial application of the Internet of Things to establish the market’s structure and direction. In the second article on this subject, Alan Griffiths asks: "Who does what in Industrial IoT?"
Digital solutions such as artifical intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-learning are driving revenue growth, however strategic uncertainty around cloud infrastructure is preventing businesses from truly becoming digital, according to a new global survey.
