The Week in AI

technologies

Digital technologies essential for UK manufacturing to power international competitiveness but SMEs still lagging behind

British manufacturing companies have taken significant steps in adopting digital technologies with some 80 per ...
data

Fighting fire with fire

Data sprawl, fragmentation and silos are seen as the inevitable fallout of the ever-accelerating rate ...
spatial

Spatial computing will be an important tool for boosting factory performance and remote manufacturing

Spatial Computing has the power to optimise factories of the future and give us more ...
industrial

Siemens makes industrial data accessible and actionable

Siemens Digital Industries Software is leveraging the Mendix low-code application development platform to help customers ...
oil

Historic agreement in digital transformation across the oil and gas industry

Schlumberger, IBM, and Red Hat have announced a collaboration to accelerate digital transformation across the oil ...
organisations

Organisations struggle to meet application delivery requirements with existing infrastructure

According to a report from NS1 organisations are beefing up enterprise network and application modernisation ...
patients

Patients set to benefit from Artificial Intelligence health solutions

Patients could benefit from faster and more effective introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) innovations to ...
augmented

ABB offers augmented reality on a smartphone to simplify robot installations

Discovering whether a robot is right for your application has never been easier following the ...
5G

5G and IoT are poised to revolutionise the manufacturing industry

Much of the fanfare about 5G has been focused on consumer benefits and there will ...
computing

Computing giant created for the age of artificial intelligence

NVIDIA has reached an agreement with SoftBank to acquire Arm in a transaction valued at ...
UK

Half of UK organisations admit they haven’t updated security for the cloud

Nearly 50% of UK IT leaders are exposing their organisation to unnecessary extra cyber-risk because ...
connectivity

Trusted Connectivity Alliance publishes recommendations to enhance subscriber privacy in 5G

Trusted Connectivity Alliance (TCA), formerly SIMalliance, has published a white paper outlining the clear benefits ...
3D

3D printing poses a grave and growing threat to people’s privacy, experts warn

 3D printing technology poses a grave and growing threat to individual privacy because of the ...
crystals

A touch of gold sends crystals electric with excitement

A touch of gold – or another noble metal – can change the structure of ...
emerson

Emerson Invests in inmation Software

Emerson has made an equity investment in inmation Software, a global software platform developer that ...
AWS

Octopus Energy fuels global growth with AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that Octopus Energy has selected AWS as its preferred ...
NGMN

NGMN Alliance publishes second 5G white paper

After the universally recognised NGMN 5G White Paper published in 2015, the NGMN Alliance followed ...
CPE

Arm and Vodafone take a big step forward with universal CPE

Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) has been ripe for innovation for years. Hundreds of millions of ...
inspection

ABB’s new 3D inspection robot system makes quality control testing ten times faster

A 3D quality inspection robot system, up to ten times faster than Coordinated Measuring Machine ...
cyber

Study highlights human error as top cyber risk

A majority of IT decision makers (95 per cent) regard cloud misconfiguration as a data ...
business

Small business confidence bounces back as nation re-emerges from lockdown

The proportion of UK small businesses predicting growth has almost doubled in just three months ...
Vodafone

Vodafone’s European network to go 100 per cent green

Vodafone has announced that its European network will be powered by 100 per cent renewable ...
climate

Solution to safeguard UK forests and tackle climate change is trialled

Vodafone has announced a partnership with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) ...
analytics

Analytics and AI software helps producers optimise operations in demanding market conditions

Analyst studies suggest that industrial companies typically are able to use only 20 per cent ...
business

Engineering giant launches new business in UK to slash cost and carbon

Manufacturing sites, commercial buildings, universities, and business parks are facing three main challenges: improving profitability ...

PTC named Global Manufacturing Partner of the Year by Microsoft

PTC has been named the Global Manufacturing Partner of the Year, for the second year ...
integrator

Digital integrator helps infrastructure asset owners leverage digital twins

Bentley Systems has announced that its Acceleration Fund has launched The Cohesive Companies, a wholly ...
DETI

DETI initiative to play an important role in economic recovery

The Digital Engineering Technology & Innovation (DETI) initiative in the West of England has launched ...
Russia

Russia introduces artificial intelligence to its aircraft engine production

The United Engine Corporation (UEC) of Russia’s State Corporation for Assistance to Development Rostec and ...
FactoryTalk

Enhancements to FactoryTalk InnovationSuite simplifies and accelerates digital transformation

Rockwell Automation and PTC have announced strategic enhancements to industry leading FactoryTalk InnovationSuite to serve the needs ...
CSAIL

CSAIL robot disinfects Greater Boston Food Bank

With every droplet that we cannot see, touch, or feel dispersed into the air, the ...
breach

Industry fears that could expose them to the risk of a data breach

More than half (57 per cent) of UK IT decision makers still believe that remote workers will expose ...
Amazon

Amazon announces $2 billion Climate Pledge Fund

Amazon has announced The Climate Pledge Fund to support the development of sustainable technologies and ...
ERP

Updates to ERP solution boost traceability for Syspro

Manufacturing and distribution businesses are set to benefit from optimised production processes, enhanced traceability, and ...
quantum

Prospects for Quantum Computing remains uncertain for next decade

As innovation continues to accelerate, quantum computing has become an increasingly important technology to monitor ...

Building resilience with the Digital Twin

These are truly exceptional times as we all adapt to the unprecedented health, social and ...
Industry 4.0

The role of data in industry 4.0

The challenges encountered by manufacturing companies when it comes to handling data are well reported, ...
MSC

MSC Design tool that thinks like an engineer

MSC Software Corporation has released MSC Apex Generative Design 2020, a tool that enables engineers ...
cybersecurity

Cybersecurity software release protects facilities from cyberattacks

Honeywell has announced the latest release of its Forge Cybersecurity Suite that includes several enhancements ...
consortium

Consortium intends to develop the potential of 5G in manufacturing

A consortium led by Ford have received government backing for the introduction of 5G connectivity ...
SMEs

SMEs urged to digitise now to recover from COVID-19

SMEs in the manufacturing industry need to digitise now according to software services company, Advanced. ...
remanufacture

Giving a second life to industrial robots

The spectre of sustainability continues to look over the manufacturing sector. Remanufacture work enables existing ...

Avoiding unethical and costly commercial mistakes with AI

A mathematical means of helping regulators and business manage Artificial Intelligence systems’ biases towards making ...

Lux Research ranks the critical technologies for surviving COVID-19

COVID-19 poses major challenges for players in every industry, and companies now face unprecedented hurdles ...

COVID-19 to reduce 2020 industrial robot revenue

Maya Xiao at Interact Analysis offers her insight into the global industrial robot market Global ...

GE Digital’s APM update rapidly reduces cost and risk from industrial reliability and maintenance work processes

GE Digital has unveiled the latest version of its industry-leading Asset Performance Management (APM) mission-critical ...

Xilinx establishes adaptive compute research clusters

Xilinx has announced it is establishing Xilinx Adaptive Compute Clusters (XACC) at four of the ...

Siemens body temperature solution minimises infection risk in buildings

Siemens Smart Infrastructure has launched Siveillance Thermal Shield. This solution package quickly measures the body ...

EdgeConneX brings the intelligent edge mainstream with NVIDIA

EdgeConneX is meeting growing enterprise interest in leveraging the data processing and decision-making benefits of ...

AWS announces general availability of Amazon Kendra

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the general availability of Amazon Kendra, a highly accurate ...

The digital transformation of supply chain management lowers costs and reduces risk

A host of digital innovations address the growing pressure to increase overall efficiencies and minimise ...
Technician processing tests

Software robots will disseminate patient test results to free up nurses

UiPath is launching a pro bono automation project with the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital. The ...
3D printed mask

Essentium makes 3D printed face mask with reusable frame

Essentium, led by the company’s COVID-19 Response Strategy Team, has been investigating how to best ...
Nnenna Nkata, 27, is from Abia State in Nigeria

Cranfield student creates Covid-19 map for Nigeria

A student from Cranfield University in the UK has created a dashboard giving information on ...

AVEVA Unified Learning now includes microlearning from Axonify

AVEVA has strategically partnered with Axonify, a rapidly growing B2B SaaS company, to offer adaptive ...

EQL helps alleviate pressure from GP’s from Covid-19

In a move designed to reduce the strain on GPs and the wider healthcare system, ...

Driving digital transformation with secure end-to-end global connectivity services

AkzoNobel has expanded its agreement with Orange Business Services to transform its global network and ...

Swiss tech start-up aims to future-proof fashion world SMEs

As the global retail industry continues to feel the full impact of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) ...

Zyfra launches remote industrial IoT system for machines

In context of the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic raging globally, Zyfra, Finnish-Russian industrial digitalisation leader, ...

Lack of legislation understanding posing threat to security of UK business data

New research from cloud and hosting services provider, Ionos, has found that 44 per cent ...
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