Extending Industrial Automation to Optimize Efficiency and Decision Making

Click Here to Download the PDF Industrial organizations have embraced automation to improve operational efficiency and reduce human error. By and large, however, industrial automation is siloed – it is applied to individual aspects of the business, but not used holistically across the organization. The key to extending automation throughout your business is hyperautomation. In…

Check Out This Mega-drone Designed for Hefty Payloads

Most delivery drones undergoing testing today are small and light enough to pick up with one hand, with payloads usually comprising a snack or some meds. Volocopter, however, has built a much larger drone-like machine for much heavier payloads. In the VoloDrone’s first-ever public flight this week, the German company demonstrated the vehicle’s airworthiness and…

European point of sale provider SumUp acquires customer loyalty startup Fivestars for $317M – TechCrunch

SumUp, a European-based competitor to Square, PayPal/iZettle and others that provide mobile-powered card readers and other sales technology to merchants and small businesses, has made an acquisition in the U.S. to dig deeper into that market, and to expand the kinds of services that it provides to customers globally. The company has acquired Fivestars, which…