AppHarvest opens largest touchless indoor farm
Kentucky based grower AppHarvest has opened the world’s largest touchless indoor farm for salad greens. The 15 acre indoor farm at Berea, Kentucky, features a touchless growing system with [...]
Emerson adds Asset Optimisation to Plantweb
Industrial technology firm Emerson has incorporated AspenTech asset optimisation software into its Plantweb industrial data analysis system. Emerson’s Plantweb is designed to enable companies to optimise digital plant and [...]
Mercedes enhances visibility with Microsoft
Mercedes-Benz is connecting around 30 passenger car plants worldwide with its new MO360 Data Platform, via the Microsoft Cloud. The new platform, an evolution of the company’s MO360 digital [...]
Altair Digital Twins for entire product lifecycle
AI specialist Altair has launched a digital twin solution that combines high performance computing, AI, data analytics and IoT capabilities designed to be deployed for any stage of a product [...]
Epson AR for Immersive Workforce Collaboration
Epson has launched a new range of Moverio augmented reality smart glasses. Designed for tasks such as industrial maintenance, inspection and training, the new glasses support immersive hands-free collaboration [...]
Reinke and CropX deepen Precision Ag partnership
Israeli precision ag firm CropX is expanding its partnership with Nebraska based Reinke Irrigation, a mechanised irrigation equipment manufacturer. The focus of the partnership is the integration of the [...]
Sight Machine automates factory data labelling
Sight Machine together with Microsoft and NVIDIA have developed a tool for high-speed automated data labelling of manufacturing plant data. The tool, Sight Machine Blueprint, is designed to make [...]
Infor partners NMIS on Model Digital Factory
New York based industrial cloud provider Infor is partnering the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS), a grouping of manufacturing R&D centres located west of Glasgow. Infor’s investment will underpin [...]
Titan America digitalises cement plants end-to-end
Virginia based heavy building materials producer Titan American has implemented machine learning in production technologies at its two cement plants in the eastern United States, resulting in enhanced equipment [...]
Dell edge platform at global scale
Dell has launched an edge operations software platform to allow manufacturers to manage edge applications and infrastructure at global scale. The new platform, Project Frontier, provides an open design [...]
ASE plans 5G mmWave NR-DC SA smart factory
Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer ASE has unveiled plans for a 5G mmWave NR-DC SA smart factory that will be part of the company’s strategy of manufacturing digital transformation through 5G [...]
MIT, IBM develop microcontroller AI training
Researchers at MIT and the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab have developed a machine learning technique that enables training on an industrial microcontroller using less than a quarter of a [...]
