Siemens, SAP stitch together Industry 4.0 software for entwined digital thread

Siemens and SAP have agreed to offer each other’s industrial production software as complementary solutions in an integrated Industry 4.0 offer, enabling a digital thread between lifecycle management and business operations. SAP will offer Siemens’ cloud-based Teamcenter software to customers as the core foundation for product lifecycle collaboration and product data management. Teamcenter allows industrial…

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Renault recruits Google to bring order and insight to global production data

Groupe Renault will use Google’s cloud platform and analytics engine to bring tighter integration and keener insights to its centralised Industry 4.0 data management platform, the company has announced. Renault has been developing its own digital platform since 2016 to connect and aggregate industrial data from around 2,500 machines in 22 manufacturing sites worldwide, covering…

Amazon Web Services launches AWS IoT SiteWise

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the general availability of AWS IoT SiteWise, a managed service that collects data from the plant floor, structures and labels the data, and generates real-time key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to help industrial customers make data-driven decisions. AWS noted that customers can use SiteWise to monitor operations across…

Orange deploys private LoRaWAN for McConnell Dowell to help with construction site automation

Orange Business Services, the enterprise services division of French telecoms firm Orange, has been appointed by New Zealand based infrastructure construction company McConnell Dowell to design a customised IoT system based on a private LoRaWAN network to enable its construction sites to collect and report on real-time information.   The pair said the construction industry faces…