Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division, which supplies smart manufacturing technologies to giants from Volkswagen to Boeing, has unveiled HxGN Robotic Automation, pioneering robotic programming and control software that enables non-specialist quality professionals to program industrial robots to perform fully automated quality inspection.…
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Edge Computing enables IT and OT convergence with three core benefits
The convergence of information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT), as well as the cross-over of responsibility for those technologies for IT and operations professionals have been a long-standing discussion. Jason Andersen, Vice President of Strategy and Product Management, Stratus Technologies explains more. Digital Transformation initiatives over recent…
GCHQ launch programme to solve national security challenges
GCHQ, the UK’s intelligence and cyber agency, is looking for five ambitious businesses to join its pioneering innovation programme to apply trailblazing technologies to national security challenges. The GCHQ Innovation Co-Lab, developed in partnership with HOST, the Home of Skills &…
Advanced network capabilities for Digital Realty’s data centres
Bandwidth Infrastructure Group (Bandwidth IG), one of the fastest growing pure-play metro dark fibre providers in the US, has announced its dark fibre connectivity solutions are now available across Digital Realty’s connected data centre campuses in Silicon Valley and Atlanta, two of the…
Mining company awards Speedcast with multi-year connectivity contract for headquarters
Speedcast, communications and IT services provider, has announced that the company has been selected by Mining Company Katanga for a three-year contract to deliver satellite connectivity services to its headquarters and a major mine complex in the Democratic Republic of…
Politicians under cyber attack: preventing attacks and leaks of confidential information
Various organisations, firms and offices, are being broken into more frequently than before through digital identity theft. Politicians have been affected as well. Leaks of important and confidential data from email accounts or inappropriately secured applications are more and more…
First hyper automation solution brings intelligent workflows to industrial organisations
Pioneer in edge analytics for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Crosser, has expanded the capabilities of its Crosser Platform with a new edition called Crosser IPA (Intelligent Process Automation). As the first true hybrid hyper automation platform to target…
The future of flooding control: intelligent stopcocks and AMRs
Almost all buildings in the UK are connected to the mains water supply, coming directly to each property, which is turned on and off by a stopcock. In this article, Matthew Margetts, Director of Sales and Marketing at Smarter Technologies…
Wind River and Intel collaborate on 5G vRAN solution for FlexRAN
Wind River has announced that the companies are jointly developing a 5G vRAN solution that integrates Intel FlexRAN reference software for systems fuelled by 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors with built-in AI acceleration, and also features Intel Ethernet 800 Network Adapters and the Intel…
Funding to help organisations fight against encrypted traffic threat
Venari Security, the defender of encrypted networks, has announced it has raised a Series A funding of £4.2m with a post money valuation of £14.2m. With some of the best known and most influential figures in the cyber security industry…
