Bill Gates commits $750M to help Oxford vaccinate the world against COVID-19

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has contributed $750 million towards the manufacturing and distribution a potential COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University. The funds come as part of a deal with British-Swedish pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca, who’s joined forces with organisations fighting to protect the world against infectious diseases like COVID-19: the Serum Institute of…

UK private LTE provider Quortus targets US, Japan with fresh funding, new portfolio

Private LTE and 5G provider Quortus has secured investment from US-based edge analytics firm Communications Systems Inc (CSI) and UK-based telecoms solutions provider cellXion to drive sales in North America, Europe, and Japan, as the market for private industrial networking gathers pace. Quortus, based in Camberley in the UK, offers virtualised mobile core solutions for…

Digitization Needs to Pay Off

June 4, 2020 Source: Stefan Roschi, Editorial Team, maxon group for Manufacturing Tomorrow Automation and digitization are important topics in the maxon Group. One example is the online configurator introduced in 2013, which enables customers to compile a specific drive on their computer and send the order directly to production, very much in the spirit…