Tag: Manufacturing
AkzoNobel unveils smart and sustainable paint factory
Last week, Dutch paints and performance coatings company AkzoNobel officially opened a new factory in Ashington, Northumberland. Costing more than £100 million to build,...
Business leaders find IoT economics “increasingly compelling”, says Verizon
When it comes to IoT and its role in digital transformation strategies, business leaders are sitting up and paying attention, says Verizon.
Almost three quarters...
ABB robot Yumi debuts as orchestra conductor in Italy
ABB's Yumi robot leads Andrea Bocelli and orchestra in bravura finale to robotics festival in Pisa.
A robot has been trained to conduct Italian tenor...
Could hackers force industrial cobots to go rogue?
Recent work by researchers at IOActive has revealed worrying vulnerabilities in today's commercially available collaborative robots.
One of the biggest arguments in favour of...
SAP: Linking people, processes and things in IoT projects
Tanja Rueckert, president of IoT and digital supply chain at SAP, writes for Internet of Business on the importance of connecting up people, processes and things...
Oracle beefs up its IoT efforts in smart factories push
Oracle has announced a tie-up with Mitsubishi Electric on smart manufacturing and new AI and machine learning enhancements to its Oracle IoT Cloud offering....
Freewave IoT kit weathers storms at Mount Washington Observatory
At the Mount Washington Observatory in New Hampshire, rugged, low-power IoT kit from Freewave is helping scientists better understand weather and climate.
The 85-year old...
German manufacturer Trumpf swoops on Seattle-based IoT specialist C-Labs
C-Labs Corporation, a Seattle-based company that creates software for the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), has been acquired by German manufacturing company Trumpf.
Trumpf, which...
Tennplasco recruits collaborative robot to fill human labor gap
Plastic injection molding company Tennplasco was struggling to hire enough workers to operate machines in its factory – but Sawyer from Rethink Robotics has...
Thyssenkrupp aims to make child’s play of IIoT with ‘Toii’
German industrial giant Thyssenkrupp has built and deployed its own Industrial IoT (IIoT) platform within its materials services business, in order to link together...
Researchers look to protect 3D printers from cyber attacks
Security researchers have demonstrated that it is possible for hackers to make undetectable changes to 3D printed parts that could introduce defects and possibly...
Qt gets cuter for developers focused on IoT automation
Mobile application development company Qt (pronounced 'cute') has refreshed its programmer toolset, designed for coders building apps in the industrial automation space.
Qt has had a...