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Intralogistics: are they the ultimate efficiency lever in supply chain management?

As a result of the pandemic, the news is filled with stories about disrupted supply chains, semiconductor shortages and increasing logistics prices. Nevertheless, the pandemic is not entirely to blame, but it did underscore the supply chain problems many companies were already facing prior to COVID-19. On the other hand, it has led to activities aimed at improving efficiency and transparency in the…

How industry pathfinders are leveraging cloud for a better tomorrow

Over the past 15 years, AWS has strived to facilitate innovation with, as AWS CEO Adam Selipsky explained, “the broadest and deepest set of services and capabilities” of any cloud provider. "Cloud has become not just another tech revolution, but a shift in how businesses actually function," Selipsky notes.Through AWS’s cloud services, industry titans such as Netflix, NASA, and NTT DoCoMo have brought lofty goals…

Frictionless working in energy & utilities: Enhancing employee experience for the field workforce

Keeping the lights on, keeping the water flowing. Maintaining business as usual during the pandemic has been critical for the E&U field workforce. Technology played an essential role by enabling new digitally distributed ways of working. In our sector we are seeing a great ‘digital divide,’ where companies that had embarked on their digital journey prior to the pandemic were…

The future of asset management: creating more value out of data

Are you ready for the challenges and opportunities of managing applications in a multi-vendor, multi-cloud, hybrid environment? If the answer to the above is no, it may not just be a matter of a poor competitive advantage. It could be a failure to understand that the future is data-driven, adaptive, agile and connected. Successful companies understand the need for enabling informed decision-making processes…

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…

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

Accelerating drug production  Immunization and vaccines prevent 4-5 million deaths every year according to the WHO. Once a vaccine has been discovered and developed, there is huge pressure on pharmaceutical companies to accelerate its mass production. While this brings significant challenges, more rapid responses are now possible thanks to the power of data and advanced computing to help scientists’ model and simulate the…

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

How to achieve Swarm Intelligence

Eric Monchalin Vice-President, Head of Machine Intelligence at Atos and member of the Scientific CommunityPurshottam Purswani Chief Architect, Distinguished Expert and member of the Scientific CommunityDo van Rijn Bid Executive at Atos Posted on: 27 February 2020 In the previous blog article in our series on Swarm Intelligence, we illustrated why it’s high time for organizations to create man-made swarm intelligence based not on what we can extract from nature, but on…

Realizing “Blue Ocean Strategy” through Digital Twin

Sandeep Bhan Digital Twin Program Mgr. / Global B&PS CTO Industry 4.0Murli Mohan Srinivas Digital Twin Lead / Head Industry 4.0 - Germany and member of the Scientific CommunityPosted on: February 10, 2020 The fourth industry revolution (Industry 4.0) is set bring sweeping technological changes in the IT landscape in the manufacturing industry. However, most businesses do not recognize that these changes due to digitization are an effective instrument…

Swarm Intelligence, a driving force in our ultra-connected world

In the previous blog article in our series on Swarm Intelligence, we demonstrated how swarm algorithms can empower you to take the right decisions faster than competition

The Impact of Digital Twins on Infrastructure Maintenance

The future for infrastructure related industries such as engineering, and construction looks bright according to sources such as “Forum of the Future” and “Global Infrastructure Hub”. Although they are mostly referring to the world population growth and the related urbanization as “engines” for investment in new infrastructure, one aspect should not be neglected and that is the ageing infrastructure in the industrialized nations in Europe or Northern America.…