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Everything you always wanted to know about AR/VR but were afraid to ask…

I feel there is a landslide coming up. A landslide that is like the paradigm shift we had in the 1990s when we left the command line interface era and entered the world of graphical user interfaces. What started as cutting-edge technology at a Xerox PARC lab some 50 years ago is now taken for granted. Today nobody would seriously…

A concerted (r)evolution: accelerating decarbonization across the energy and utilities ecosystem

The pandemic has placed health, social and environmental considerations very much in the spotlight. Businesses are taking stock of the ongoing and wider relevance of their organizational purposes. Across today’s smarter greener energy ecosystem, energy & utility companies are in a unique position to champion major advances in decarbonization using digital technology as the critical enabler. Even before the crisis, there was some…

Digital twins - demystified

  In the physical world of products, operational realtime data is generated almost as a bi-product. These data sets can be extremely diverse and have not been designed for analysis or for carrying out artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML). It can be hard to realize their value. Digital twin appraoch to solving business challenges can really help here. In order to understand this raw data, companies hire data scientists to…

3D collaboration – evolving from playground gadget to serious enterprise solution

  3D collaboration is not a new topic. We at Atos started developments around augmented (AR), virtual (VR) and mixed reality (MR) many years ago. Our focus has been on applications for the industry and especially on the improvement of operational excellence, e.g., to streamline maintenance and assembly processes. Therefore, holographic work spheres managing collaboration with experts and peers as well as interfaces…

Digital twins drives industrial decarbonization

  For far too long manufacturing enterprises have focused on productivity centred around economics and commercial gains driven by KPIs such as speed to market, manufacturing cost, operational cost, overall profitability etc. It is time for everyone in industrial manufacturing and other process industries to focus on resource productivity, sustainability, carbon and energy footprint. In the past, very few industries and manufacturers gave any attention to these topics, and if they did,…

Peek under the hood of Digital Twin – A system integration challenge

Traditionally Digital Twin has been a playing ground of organizations engaged in design simulation, 3-D visualization to analyse performance of products. Over the last years, both the scope and objectives to realize Digital Twin has changed substantially, resulting in collation of data sources from various system. Moreover, enterprises have made substantial investments to build their backend IT systems, housing valuable company data…

Bad impersonations: How consumer brands can win in a virtual world

For decades, fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies have been the choice for investors looking for moderate but constant growth and high profitability. Since December 2000, the FMCG industry outperformed the market by an average of 2.4% per year, returned 0.6 points more dividend and delivered these returns with a significantly lower risk1. And now, despite (or because of?) the pandemic, FMCG online sales…

These (not so) new technologies fighting COVID-19

In the wake of coronavirus, a flood of ‘new technologies’ has swept through our daily lives. New? Not so much… Many are mostly pre-existing technologies pivoted toward new usages. Here is an overview of five of them, all designed for very specific reasons, then reoriented for the fight against the virus. After all, why reinvent the wheel? Digital twins, from factories to labs Until the beginning of 2020,…

Digital Workplace on the Shop Floor: Long Neglected, Now More Important Than Ever (part 1)

Advances in technology mean that most office workers can now access all relevant company applications from anywhere. We communicate and collaborate with colleagues through a range of channels using powerful mobile devices that are always connected. However, a similarly profound digital change to workplaces is happening right now and going relatively unnoticed: of the shop floors of…

Simulation and AI/ML riding the digital twin wave

Most organizations across industries have been on overdrive to push digital transformation targeting savings, increasing revenue, or improving quality and reliability. A few common industry challenges such as: • “Help me predict failure of my plant asset. How do we plan scheduled maintenance optimizing operation, logistics and inventory cost? (OPEX)” • “How can we maximize performance/throughput from our assets?” • “How can I send personalize insight and proactive…

The role of digital twins in producing a COVID-19 vaccine

In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is waiting for an effective vaccine as the only sustainable way to prevent the disease. With between two and three million deaths prevented every year by vaccination, only clean drinking water rivals its ability to save lives.[1] Accelerating drug production Once a vaccine has been discovered and developed, there will be huge pressure on…

Industry 4.0: The future of the industry is today!

We all know that Industry 4.0 is the fourth industrial revolution, but what are the main technologies that are changing the manufacturing sector