Industrial 4.0
ACL Digital | October 09, 2023
•The agreement will integrate both organizations' key expertise to create private 5G solutions with lightning-fast speeds, URLLC, and mMTC.
•The alliance is committed to providing personalized 5G solutions for manufacturing, healthcare, automotive, and other industries.
•With operations on different continents, the joint offerings will benefit businesses worldwide, assuring local regulatory compliance and regional adaptation.
•The cooperation provides advanced 5G infrastructure, consultancy, deployment, maintenance, and continual upgrades.
ACL Digital and Tidal Wave have joined forces to establish a private 5G alliance aimed at advancing Industry 4.0 transformations. The partnership seeks to empower businesses with cutting-edge private 5G technology, enhancing operations and productivity across telecom and enterprise verticals.
This alliance leverages ACL Digital's digital transformation and system integration expertise with Tidal Wave's private 5G knowledge to offer tailored solutions for connected factories, smart ports, industrial automation, and more.
The collaboration will focus on delivering solutions for connected factories and warehouses, smart ports, smart manufacturing, industrial automation, real-time asset tracking remote monitoring and control.
This partnership will extend to every region of the world, ensuring local compliance with regulations and allowing for regional adaptation. Its goal is to ensure compatibility and confident deployment of private 5G systems while delivering comprehensive engineering solutions and client support.
Ramandeep Singh, CEO of ACL Digital, remarked that through their collaboration with Tidal Wave, they were initiating a journey into the changing realm of private 5G. He noted that the combination of ACL Digital's system integration capabilities and Tidal Wave's expertise would mark the beginning of a fresh phase in network transformation for their clients. Ramandeep highlighted that this alliance positioned them to lead global digital transformation initiatives, leveraging the significant potential of 5G to enhance various industries by adopting private networks. He added that this partnership would empower customers to improve their operations and productivity using the latest 5G technologies.
Ankit Dixit, CEO of Tidal Wave, conveyed that in ACL Digital, they had found a partner who not only shared their forward-looking vision and practical approach to an interconnected industrial future but also effectively complemented their strengths. He mentioned that this collaboration established a new standard for innovative product offerings and a robust framework for execution and support. Ankit emphasized that the intricate customization required for implementing private 5G networks called for seamless cooperation between their two organizations, and he noted that this partnership operated exceptionally well between both entities.
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Industrial 4.0
PR Newswire | August 24, 2023
Telit Cinterion, a global enabler of the intelligent edge, today announced completion of a successful proof-of-concept trial of private 5G for factory automation. Conducted in partnership with Nestlé Brazil, the trial showcases why and how manufacturers are increasingly making 5G a foundational component of their Industry 4.0 transformation strategies. Many manufacturers are considering or already implementing 5G, including private 5G networks, a global trend that will be worth $109 billion by 2030.
Nestlé conducted the trial at Parque Tecnologico São José dos Campos, a government-sponsored research park where it is one of the resident companies exploring next-generation technologies and business processes. The trial focused on how Nestlé could use 5G to connect autonomous manufacturing robots and automated guided vehicles at their plants like the one in Caçapava, Brazil.
The trial used the Telit Cinterion 5G FT980-WW evaluation kit, which features the FN980 module. Based on the 3GPP Rel. 15 standard, the FN980m supports all major 5G frequency bands, giving private networks maximum deployment flexibility. The Nestlé trial focused on the use of sub-6 GHz spectrum.
"Telit Cinterion has been a partner of Nestlé since we began conducting the first tests using 5G technology at Nestlé's Innovation and Technology Center (CIT) at the São José dos Campos Technology Park. We are very pleased with this unprecedented joint work, which is so important for the national industry," explained Gustavo Moura, Digital Transformation Program Manager for Operations at Nestlé Brazil.
"Nestlé Brazil is one of several recent Latin America 5G factory automation trials that Telit Cinterion has been part of, which shows that manufacturers across the region see 5G as key for ensuring the success of their Industry 4.0 migration," said Neset Yalcinkaya, SVP Sales Americas at Telit Cinterion. "This successful trial also is the latest example of how manufacturers, systems integrators, and others turn to Telit Cinterion for private 5G factory automation and PoC trials."
About Telit Cinterion
Telit Cinterion is a global enabler of the intelligent edge providing complete solutions that reduce time to market and costs, delivering custom designed, ready for market connected devices in addition to maintaining the industry's broadest portfolio of enterprise-grade wireless communication and positioning modules, cellular MVNO connectivity plans and management services, edge-cloud software and data orchestration, and IoT and Industrial IoT platforms. As the largest western provider pioneering IoT innovation, Telit Cinterion delivers award-winning and highly secure IoT solutions, modules and services for the industry's top brands.
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Industrial Data
Globenewswire | July 28, 2023
Sight Machine Inc. today announced the release of Factory CoPilot, democratizing industrial data through the power of generative artificial intelligence. By integrating Sight Machine’s Manufacturing Data Platform with Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, Factory CoPilot brings unprecedented ease of access to manufacturing problem solving, analysis and reporting.
Using a natural language user interface similar to ChatGPT, Factory CoPilot offers an intuitive, “ask the expert” experience for all manufacturing stakeholders, regardless of data proficiency. In response to a single question, Factory CoPilot can automatically summarize all relevant data and information about production in real-time (e.g., for daily meetings) and generate user-friendly reports, emails, charts and other content (in any language) about the performance of any machine, line or plant across the manufacturing enterprise, based on contextualized data in the Sight Machine platform.
Factory CoPilot guides users through root cause analysis and drill-down investigation for faster diagnosis of issues. Streaming data from across machines, lines and plants enables continuous system-wide analysis and insights, identifying the causes of unplanned downtime, slow-running machines or quality issues, and enabling continuous manufacturing process improvement. Factory CoPilot empowers team members with real-time results and insights from production queries, such as KPI reporting, performance comparisons, trend and correlation analyses, data source availability reports, and recommendations on optimal settings and production recipes.
“Sight Machine’s Manufacturing Data Platform has been a critical part of IPG’s success in using data to continuously improve and scale manufacturing productivity. We value Sight Machine’s leadership in bringing generative AI to manufacturing together with Microsoft,” said Jai Sundararaman, Chief Transformation Officer leading Innovation & Digital Transformation, Intertape Polymer Group Inc. (IPG). “Factory CoPilot has the potential to dramatically expand the reach and impact of our data-driven transformation initiatives, empowering our front-line with easy to use tools and valuable insights to enhance decision making and operations.”
Sight Machine’s Manufacturing Data Platform Offers A Single Source of Truth on Production
The power of Factory CoPilot is based on its integration with Sight Machine’s Manufacturing Data Platform (MDP), which captures the entire manufacturing process in a single, secure industrial data foundation, contextualizing all plant data and incorporating data from all sensors, machines, lines and plants operated by a company. MDP automates the process of blending and transforming streaming data from all manufacturing data sources, enabling system-level understanding of production, and uses AI to continuously enrich the data foundation with new levels of insight.
Because Factory CoPilot draws its information from the fully contextualized data foundation that Sight Machine’s platform creates for each manufacturing customer, users can be confident that the results are complete and accurate, without worrying about the “hallucinations” that generative AI systems can invent when they lack real data. All generative output is backed by validated source references to increase trust and empower confidence, enabling a bias for action. At all times, the underlying data and generated results are protected and remain secure, exclusively available within each customer's managed Azure environment.
“Generative AI has immense potential in manufacturing, but AI can’t work with raw factory data,” said Sight Machine CEO and Co-Founder Jon Sobel. “In order to transform manufacturing in a way that is scalable, affordable and manageable, AI needs the fully contextualized data that Sight Machine’s universal data foundation provides. We look forward to working closely with clients and our partners at Microsoft to make this technology widely available.”
Sight Machine’s integration of Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service continues a multi-year collaboration that helps manufacturers around the world transform their business and unlock new levels of productivity and sustainability with leading cloud, data and AI-powered technology. On July 18, Sight Machine was certified as a launch partner for Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing, and in October 2022, Sight Machine introduced Sight Machine Blueprint, developed in collaboration with NVIDIA and Microsoft, which uses AI for high-speed, automated data labeling, enabling manufacturers to analyze up to 100x more of their data.
“Microsoft and its ecosystem are committed to Industrial Metaverse and making the deep investments needed to support global industry transformation,” said Çağlayan Arkan, Vice President, Global Sales Lead, Industrial Metaverse Strategy and Sales, Manufacturing and Supply Chain at Microsoft. “We are proud to collaborate and innovate with Sight Machine as together we bring practical, useful solutions to the world’s factories and plants.”
About Sight Machine
Sight Machine helps Global 500 Manufacturers unlock the power of industrial data to increase profitability, productivity, and sustainability. Purpose-built for manufacturing, Sight Machine’s Manufacturing Data Platform creates a common data foundation and utilizes AI/ML to support real-time decision making. Through a data-first approach, Sight Machine captures and contextualizes data from the entire factory to deliver a systemwide view of the end-to-end manufacturing process. Data becomes democratized, empowering all stakeholders — from executives to plant managers and operators — to drive and scale productivity improvements across the enterprise. Founded by a team with deep manufacturing industry expertise, Sight Machine has offices in San Francisco and Ann Arbor, Mich.
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