Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.20
…for America's Students” sponsored by MFG Day's National Sponsors Microsoft, PTC and Salesforce, featuring leaders in the manufacturing industry and Netflix star Emily Dawn Calandrelli of Emily's Wonder Lab. A full schedule of national, local and regional events can be found here. To reach more people across the country, MFG Day will run throughout October, Manufacturing Month, and will feature engaging virtual events on CreatorsWanted.org, including the following events: Friday, Oct. 2, at 12:00 p.m. EDT—The official kick-off to MFG Day with the following special guests and speakers: Jay Timmons, president and CEO of the NAM Dr. Walt Copan, under…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.10
…mobility leaders—and move the industry forward.” RTI joins a group of automotive and technology leaders including Ansys, Aptiv and Microsoft as official sponsors in the challenge. The IAC is supported by the RTI University Program, which enables university research and hands-on education. Universities around the world are using RTI technology to support their research in areas including robotics, autonomous vehicles, space exploration, connected health care and more. Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.46
…spanning customers across retail, B2B, food & beverage, and one of the largest luxury retailers in the U.S., Nordstrom. Microsoft also partners with Attabotics for cloud-based supply chain management on the Azure platform.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.39
…and AM hardware sector. It was initially spearheaded by Microsoft and HP. “Our goal is to provide a specification that eliminates the issues with currently available file formats, and allows companies to focus on innovation, rather than on basic interoperability issues,” the Consortium states in its home page. While AM software developers and users have acknowledged 3MF file format's richer set of features (support for color and multimaterial structures, to name but two), STL remains an entrenched format, likely here to stay for the long haul. Baldez said, “STL has been around since 1987, so it's been a while ...…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 21.73
…College Healthcare NHS Trust. Doctors have been wearing the Microsoft Hololens headsets whilst working on the front lines of the COVID pandemic, to aid them in their care for their patients. “The use case for this project allows other clinicians to sit in another room, and by using Microsoft Teams, see a live video feed of the doctor who is treating the COVID-19 patients. This is utilizing the remote assistance aspects which have been previously used by Hololens users for manufacturing, maintenance, and other similar applications. By using the devices, staff reduced the amount of time they must spend in…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 21.14
…contract logistics services provider DHL Supply Chain, technology giant Microsoft, and Blue Yonder (formerly JDA), a provider of AI-driven and end-to-end supply chain management services—announced today they have rolled out what they called a “plug and play” robotics platform. The companies said that this platform significantly reduces integration time and programming efforts, in order to on-board new automation devices into warehouse facilities, which, in turn, provides shippers with more flexibility in selecting robotics systems geared towards their specific business needs, while leveraging Microsoft Azure IoT and cloud platform services. This platform was initially implemented at a Madrid, Spain-based DHL Supply…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 29.32
…marks an advancement to the collaboration among Rockwell Automation, Microsoft and PTC. Factory Insights as a Service, powered by technology from PTC, Rockwell Automation and Microsoft, is delivered in the cloud in a turnkey fashion and supports the industry’s most common high-value digital transformation use cases: Factory Insights as a Service includes many of the key product components of PTC and Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk InnovationSuite, including PTC’s ThingWorx, Kepware, and Vuforia products, optimized for OT data coming from Rockwell Automation’s automation and information offerings. It leverages Microsoft’s cloud, industrial IoT and edge services, including Azure IoT Hub and Azure IoT…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.24
…infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers such as Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Alibaba and IBM; cloud-based collaboration and application providers; telecom operators providing cloud services; cloud connectivity partners; and colocation data centers. The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted several examples of processes that can be digitized and virtualized,” Bicknell continues. “Google has told job seekers it will conduct all interviews virtually via Google Hangouts for the foreseeable future. Corporate video conferencing is enabling both legal and medical case discussions, while telemedicine is being used to provide COVID-19 remote diagnosis and treatment. “The necessary wider move to cloud will now pose questions for…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.64
…predictive analytics platform, says Kauzlick. Fortunately, analytics platforms from Microsoft and others are getting easier for organizations to use without having teams of programmers working on a solution for months. Kauzlick says that his team often leverages Microsoft’s predictive analytics platform. “These platforms are absolutely lowering the barrier of entry for the analytics side of IoT,” he adds. “They allow an organization to create a data set that is trusted, and that you can then easily reach into for analytics.” Blockchain momentum When it comes to all of the details involved in moving goods across borders and recording changes to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.13
…Management Tools,” published August 2019, VMware, along with Citrix, Microsoft and IBM, showed up in the Leaders’ corner. “VMware shows strength in helping its customers bridge between legacy client management tools (CMTs) and UEM unified endpoint management (UEM) by building on previous common CMT functions such as patch management natively within the Workspace ONE offering,” wrote Gartner. It also singled out “VMware’s 2018 launch of the Workspace ONE AirLift offering” as an innovation in the space. SaaS vs. Virtualization Software-as-a-service (SaaS) describes software that does not need to be installed on a local PC or workstation to run. It tends…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.29
…to allow their solutions to run simulations on the Microsoft Azure Big Compute platform. The Fortissimo Project At the end of 2019, the European Commission wrapped up its Fortissimo Project, which was launched to encourage the use of advanced modeling and simulation by providing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) access to cloud-based HPC resources. The experiments conducted in the early phases of the project resulted in 79 success stories and case studies that demonstrated how the use of cloud-based HPC could improve the value chain. The project was primarily targeted at cloud-based simulation, a number of additive manufacturing use cases…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.11
…Jaggaer, GEP, BravoSolution, Zycus, PTC, High Jump, IFS, Cisco, Microsoft, Intel, Om Partners, H. Robinson, Dematic (KION), Swisslog (KUKA), SSI SCHAEFER, Daifuku, Murata Machinery,TGW Logistics Group, Yale Materials Handling Corporation, Zebra Technologies, Honeywell AIDC, Honeywell Intelligrated, Data Logic, DMLogic, Nulogy, SICK AG, ABB, Jabil, Siemens, Logistyx Technologies, Advantech iLogistics, PINC, UPS, Righthand Robotics, BluJay Solutions, Locus Systems, Brightpearl, Veridian, Avetta, AIMMS, One Network Enterprises, LEGACY Supply Chain Services, Apex Supply Chain Technologies, Kuebix, SEKO Logistics, Landstar, CSX, Arviem, Tapestry Solutions, FedEx Supply Chain, DHL Supply Chain, XPO Logistics, Ryder Supply Chain Solutions, NFI Logistics, XPO Logistics, GEODIS North America (OHL),…