Smart factory projects are rarely greenfield builds Canadian company Kontrol Energy Corp. announced its first smart factory order from Toyota Tsusho Canada (TTCI). Kontrol Energy said that the order is for an Ontario automotive manufacturing plant. Following a detailed review of the plant and its operations, Kontrol and TTCI formulated an approximately $850,000 retrofit and…
Google-backed analytics provider Canvass Analytics has signed with the two “largest industrial automation companies” to resell its takeaway AI solution for industrial companies. The Toronto-based firm, founded in 2016, is focused on advanced analytics for optimising assets, processes, and energy usage in industrial firms. Its pitch is that it makes these analytics functions usable and…
Digital twins of smart cities will number 500 by 2025, from a handful today, according to ABI Research. The concept of digital twins will start move from smart factories, where spatial modelling is starting to be used to show the interplay between physical environments and mechanical and digital systems, into smart cities in the period,…
“The world is changing, and changing extremely fast,” Swedish manufacturer Sandvik told PI World 2019 in Gothenburg this week. The firm, a ‘lighthouse’ smart manufacturer for the World Economic Forum, said industrialists must drive digital change in order to save the planet. During a morning keynote at the event, Claes Nord, experience specialist at Sandvik…
Air France will track all bags at Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags from 2020. Around eight million pieces of baggage will be tagged each year, it said. Air France is working with Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport to implement the technology, starting with the airport’s Terminal 1. It will roll out…
Micro-mobility solutions such as scooters, bike shares, and other vehicles have flooded our cities, but many companies face mounting criticism. Rather than profiting from the “build-break-build” ethos, micro-mobility companies are being forced to navigate, sometimes at great cost, complex public and private stakeholder relationships. Striking those ideal collaborations, including between private and public sector organizations,…
U.K. carrier O2 announced a project to provide connectivity for a new “smart ambulance” at Millbrook Proving Ground this month, as part of a trial which has the main goal of revolutionize patient diagnosis, transport and treatment, the telco said in a release. O2 said that the project will involve equipping a standard ambulance with…
The operational technology (OT) industry moved to shore up its position as the arbiter of industrial change at PI World 2019 in Sweden today by declaring that new-fangled digital technologies like artificial intelligence cannot be so easily sold into the industrial set by opportunistic IT and IoT companies. Instead, these technologies must be filtered through…
Ericsson has completed a SEK 500 million ($52 million) overhaul of its Nanjing factory in China, where it produces LTE (4G) and 5G gear, to create what it claims to be “among the most advanced” manufacturing facilities in the world. The new factory upgrade, covering IoT connectivity and AI data tools, in China follows parallel…
German industrial giant Siemens has announced it will acquire UK based Process Systems Enterprise (PSE), a supplier of advanced data modelling software for process industries, including the chemicals, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, and food and beverage manufacturing. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter; the fee is undisclosed. The addition of PSE to Siemens’…
