Manufacturers’ use of technology pre-COVID & 5 key areas for investment in the post COVID-19 World
The sudden global onset of COVID-19 has had disastrous consequences, both personal and economic. Much media attention has been focused on shortages of key products, as well as waste and surpluses, as manufacturers around the world…
Digital solutions that will be the most crucial in the energy transition
The ABB Virtual Roundtable, “Critical Digital Solutions to Support a Sustainable Energy Transition,” addressed how technologies are evolving and what digital solutions will be the most crucial in this transition. These are some of the questions…
How Industrial Linux Enables Distributed IIoT Applications
Distributed applications are on the cutting edge of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). By leveraging the latest advances in edge computing, that is, deploying edge gateways to collect and preprocess data from numerous sensors and…
Critical Digital Solutions to Support a Sustainable Energy Transition
In a recent Virtual Roundtable from ABB, “Critical Digital Solutions to Support a Sustainable Energy Transition,” industry experts discussed how digital innovation and technology are key to a successful and effective energy transition. These are some…
Edge Architecture for IIoT
If you’re an industrial manufacturer or OEM wishing to adopt IIoT as part of your overall digital strategy, you’ll find that edge computing is often a required component. Even though edge computing is used pervasively throughout IIoT, its…
Why Technology is Crucial For Sustainable Workplace Safety
The onset of COVID-19 has shined a stark spotlight on a previously complacent attitude to workplace health and safety. Amidst spiralling infection rates and provincial lockdowns, long-standing workplace safety procedures have been strained under the impact…
Creating and Deploying Industrial IoT Solutions in Enterprise Environments
This paper focuses on enabling and leveraging computational power at the edge The first paper in a short series on the Industrial IoT (IIoT) focused on the intrinsic need to decouple data generation from data usage,…
Evolution of Quality. What’s next in digital era?
This e-book captures how quality concepts have evolved over the last century and explains how some common but proven quality tools are taking a new avatar in the current scenario with the evolution of digital technologies.As…
Smarter Manufacturing starts with Intelligence at the Edge
We’re living in a world where the things around us are becoming smarter. Thousands of internet of things (IoT) sensors on industrial equipment, embedded in city infrastructure and packaged into today’s products, are collecting data. That…
Computer Vision Platforms Mean Flexible Visual Inspection for Agile Manufacturing
Visual inspection—making sure that the parts are all present, the labels are on straight, and the packing materials are all in place—is an essential component of quality control in the manufacturing industry. By double-checking everything before…