Engineering

2023 has been another transformational year for IT professionals. Just as employees everywhere had acclimatised to a perpetual hybrid world, a new technology arrived that promised to revolutionise our working lives once again: AI. Jeremy Rafuse, Vice President & Head of Digital Workplace at GoTo and Olga Lagunova, Chief Technology Officer at GoTo discuss their…

Issue 7 of the popular digital magazine e-TechJournal, entitled The Forefront of Industry 4.0, is now available to download for free from Farnell. Farnell, a fast and reliable distributor of products and technology for electronic and industrial system design, maintenance and repair, is presenting readers with an opportunity to stay on top of Industry 4.0…

ABB Robotics and XtalPi have joined forces in a strategic alliance to develop a series of automated laboratory workstations in China. These state-of-the-art facilities are set to enhance the productivity of research and development activities in fields such as biopharmaceuticals, chemical engineering, chemistry, and new energy materials. Jose-Manuel Collados, Manager of Service Robotics Product Line…

Driven by the high volume of industrial robot installations, the world hit a new record of 3.9 million operational robots in 2022. The top most automated countries measured by robot density are: The Republic of Korea (1,012 robots per 10,000 employees), Singapore (730 units) and Germany (415 units). This is according to the World Robotics…

Real-time asset tracking and condition monitoring are essential in agricultural operations like livestock management, cold chain warehousing for foods and pharmaceuticals, managing fleets of vehicles, and Industry 4.0 flexible production operations. It is a complex process involving multiple sensors to monitor environmental conditions. It stresses that the asset is subjected to multi-constellation global navigation satellite…

Mina Justa, a significant copper mining project in Peru, has recently achieved a substantial advancement in worker safety and security. This improvement is a result of the successful implementation of a pioneering IoT-based worker safety solution, developed through a collaboration between StraconTech, Abeeway, and Actility. As a major player in the copper mining sector, Mina…

Siemens is integrating Amazon Bedrock into its Mendix low-code development platform, facilitating the creation and upgrade of applications with advanced generative AI technology. This move aims to accelerate digitalisation and address skilled labour shortages. Mendix, a leader in low-code development with 50 million end-users and over 200,000 applications running on AWS across various sectors, is…

Stellantis has led the development of the world’s first virtual cockpit platform as part of its Stellantis Virtual Engineering Workbench (VEW). This platform significantly accelerates the delivery of infotainment technology to customers, achieving a speed 100 times faster than previous processes. Utilising the QNX Hypervisor in the Cloud from BlackBerry, now available for early access…

As a company expands, and so does its IoT applications, the vast data it collects to give insights, could begin to become a blur. Although things like AI can condense and streamline mass quantities of it into actionable insights, understanding the knock on effects remain harder to diagnose, even for an AI model, should relevant…