Tag: smart factory
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,...
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...
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....
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...
Norwegian salmon farmers Cermaq to build smart factory in Arctic Circle
Norwegian salmon and trout farming company Cermaq claims that it is building the world's first smart factory for salmon in the Arctic Circle.
Following the...
IIoT and the rise of the cobots
Spending on robotics among industrial companies will continue to climb over the next decade – but smaller, less costly and highly adaptable collaborative robots...
Machine vision: a bird’s-eye view of the smart factory
In a contributed article for Internet of Business, Jonathan Wilkins, marketing director at EU Automation, a supplier of obsolete industrial parts, discusses the role of...
Finger Food organises IoT augmented reality project – in a brewery
The Holobridge framework offers a holographic view of the inner workings of craft beer brewing through IoT data.
Canadian tech developer Finger Food has created...
Airbus: engineering the future of intelligent factories
Airbus presented a session entitled 'The future of intelligent factories' at Internet of Manufacturing 2017, held in Munich this week by Internet of Business. With...