Digital Twin Archives – Page 3 of 3

September 6, 2019 · Connected Industry

Pursuing the digital transformation of Middle East industry

Industrialization has long been a central pillar of global economic development. Industrialized economies are strong, stable, resilient, highly skilled and globally competitive. It’s no surprise then that Middle Eastern countries have set their sights on industrialization as a key component of current growth and diversification strategies aimed at ensuring sustainable development.Across the region, ambitious industrialization […]

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November 8, 2018 · Connected Industry

How Smart Factories Benefit From Digital Twins

Today, the term Digital Twin is ubiquitous.Four years ago, I had my first personal contact with this concept. I attended the VDI conference “Big Data in Manufacturing”, where a General Electric’s (GE) manager presented the well-known example of the transformation of GE’s business model in the aircraft turbine market.GE equips its turbines with sensors and […]

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April 2, 2018 · Connected Industry

The missing piece in the IIoT

Buzz words such as the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Industry 4.0 and Digital Twin have started to weave their way into executive key notes and sales peoples’ pitches. It is easy for product offerings to get lost in the cloud of buzzwords and become disconnected from the basic operating principles of the customers in […]

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August 28, 2017 · Smart Cities

Smart Cities – From Vertical Farming to Vertiports

Cities are bursting at their seams and to manage the urban sprawl the strategy has been simple – Go vertical! Tall buildings, elevated transportation, vertical farming, and now vertiports! All indications even at the recently concluded Uber Elevate Summit, point to one certainty– the platform disruption is getting ready for lift-off! Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing (eVTOL) […]

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