SaaS firm eviFile has announced it’s working with Alstom Transport UK Ltd to roll out the eviFile platform across all live UK projects, including a contract worth £130m. The 100 users’ partnership will include major projects at Victoria and Cambridge,…
Nexus, connecting siloed engineering & unlocking smart manufacturing
Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division has announced an open platform for smart manufacturing, Nexus, which will revolutionise how technology professionals collaborate and innovate. Announced at Hexagon’s HxGN LIVE Global 2022 conference in Las Vegas, Nexus will enable real time data sharing…
Standardising data collection in breweries
As the beer industry continues to expand globally, brewing companies that operate across multiple international sites face issues with data management. There is often little consistency in how these sites track data, making it impossible to optimise performance across the…
AgTech’s new wave (Farm Different: Episode 3)
This three-part documentary from Digi-Key dives deeper into the people, technology and challenges of modern agriculture. To farm better we must farm different. The previous episode saw Digi-Key visit the Grand Farm in Fargo, North Dakota. In their final episode, they sit down…
Plex Systems announces modularization of its smart manufacturing platform
Plex Systems has announced a modularisation approach for its smart manufacturing platform to enable accessibility and scalability for digital transformation in manufacturing. This approach, enabled by Plex’s innovative cloud-native platform, more closely aligns with customers’ needs as they build their…
Smart eye technology: medical and marketing applications
Smart eye tracking technology can be used for a multitude of applications. Here, IoT Insider explores specifically the use cases of smart eye technology for marketing purposes and medical applications. Smart contact lenses Smart contact lenses, although still in development,…
Encord announces automated label quality assessment tool for computer vision
Encord, the platform for data-centric computer vision, has released an automated data quality assessment tool that automatically finds errors within annotated training data. Currentmethods of collating training data for AI are inherently manual, and with millions of data points to…
Gas sensor with AI: Bosch’s BME688 complements the Rutronik sensors portfolio
Environmental sensor technology with artificial intelligence: this is the first gas sensor with artificial intelligence and integrated highly linear and highly accurate pressure, humidity and temperature sensors. With the BME AI-Studio tool, it is also possible to train the BME688…
Double digit growth for robot sales in North America
The North American robotics market experienced its best quarter ever to begin the year: Companies from the US, Canada and Mexico ordered 11,595 industrial robots – up 28% compared to the first quarter of 2021. Revenue rose by 43% and…
The ReBeL of low cost automation: smart igus cobot
Low cost and about 8kg, the plug-and-play ReBeL cobot is one of the lightest cobots on the market. Digital services provided with it, such as the RBTXpert and new online offerings, enable customers to create complete automation solutions in just…
