Smart Factory initiatives – main driver of manufacturing competitiveness
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Smart Factory initiatives – main driver of manufacturing competitiveness

Smart Factory initiatives – main driver of manufacturing competitiveness Smart Factory is a concept until recently considered futuristic, but now translated into reality by the existing technologies on the market. Relying on cybernetic systems that communicate with each other, Smart Factory is based on the direct communication of production equipment with each other and with a central […]

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Digital Transformation in the Process Industries
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Digital Transformation in the Process Industries

Highlight case: Food and Beverage Industry– Individualization is one of the most important trends in the food and beverage industry. Manufacturers have to react faster to increasing social diversity, new lifestyles, needs, consumer habits, tastes, and preferences. How is Siemens helping these manufacturers to adapt? Would you please give us one or more examples? – […]

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[Report] ICS cybersecurity for the Electric Utilities Industry
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[Report] ICS cybersecurity for the Electric Utilities Industry

The risk of security incidents is rapidly increasing in the electric industry, which plays a crucial role in critical infrastructure. This is due to the increasing vulnerability of the system caused by the modernization of the electricity generation, transmission, and distribution systems (i.e. digitalization, network connectivity, and the use of generic software and IT). There […]

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Grain Power Station
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Grain Power Station

Grain power station, on the Isle of Grain in Kent, is the newest Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) in Uniper’s UK portfolio, having been commissioned in 2011. The current power station replaced Grain-A, a 1320MW oil-fired station, commissioned in the 1970s, which was closed in 2012 under the EU’s Large Combustion Plant Directive (LCPD) legislation. It once […]

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DaaS: Desktop Virtualization
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DaaS: Desktop Virtualization

The third party cloud provider manages all back-end resources, such as desktop storage, compute, and networking, including the virtual cloud machines that run the desktop operating systems. The desktop as a service provider streams the virtual desktops to end-user devices, allowing any time, anywhere access to desktops and applications. DaaS is a multi-tenancy provider, and, […]

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What is the Hidden Factory and how to reveal one?
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What is the Hidden Factory and how to reveal one?

What is the Hidden Factory? The Hidden Factory is a concept that refers to the unseen, or hidden, parts of a manufacturing process that result in quality issues or decrease the efficiency of the operation. What’s causing this? It depends on the operation at hand, but typically it is due to the difficulty of measuring […]

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The Way Forward: A Practical Guide to Achieving IT/OT Convergence
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The Way Forward: A Practical Guide to Achieving IT/OT Convergence

Modern enterprises are faced with pressures for accelerated digitalization while effectively using data from and across their systems. Attend this session to watch a live demo led by industry experts and see how IT/OT data systems can be seamlessly integrated for optimized efficiencies.  This session offers the unique opportunity to learn from real use cases […]

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5G Myths, Realities and Misunderstandings
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5G Myths, Realities and Misunderstandings

In Part One of this three-part series, we explained the basics of 5G, its use cases and benefits. In this article we’ll debunk some of the 5G myths, realities and misunderstandings. Then, in Part Three, we’ll explore the vision of applications that will be enabled by 5G . 5G Myths, Realities and Misunderstandings Myth 1: […]

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The 2021 Ransomware Survey Report
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The 2021 Ransomware Survey Report

Fortinet recently surveyed 455 business leaders and cybersecurity professionals worldwide to gauge their state of readiness to defend against the growing challenge of ransomware. Most are very or extremely concerned about the threat of a ransomware attack, with many seeing those attacks as a more significant challenge than other cyber threats. The majority feel prepared […]

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Why do we need more Green Chemistry programs, and how digitalization can help
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Why do we need more Green Chemistry programs, and how digitalization can help

Most of Novartis’s manufacturing facilities recover, recycle and re-use solvents, and the precious metal catalysts known to have a high greenhouse gas impact. In the case of two pilot compounds, Novartis was able to demonstrate a recovery rate of up to 85% of two precious metals, with potential savings of 20,000 tons of CO2 by […]

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The Evolution of Digital Transformation
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The Evolution of Digital Transformation

For the last few years, especially, the common thread running through every article, survey, webinar and industry keynote speech has seemingly centered on the necessity of digitally transforming to remain competitive, even to survive in an increasingly competitive and hostile marketplace. Most manufacturers have at least begun to persue projects or established programs focused on […]

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