Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.20
November 10, 2020
…never be one system that conquers everything.” Vendors like Microsoft and Slack offer flow productivity apps, which take data from one or several apps and use it elsewhere, with little or no code. “This is an important thing” for manufacturing, Jonnalagadda says. “Coexistence and use of the data backbone, for connections that enhance the engineering experience.” Connecting design with service operations is part of the expanded vision for Autodesk. Chemicals giant BASF uses Autodesk Fusion for plant maintenance and Inventor for plant design. Jonnalagadda explains the process using the hypothetical example of a failed bolt. “The bolt is made in…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 29.71
November 05, 2020
Ansys has announced a collaboration with Microsoft to further integrate Azure cloud, HPC, digital twin and IoT services offerings. According to the company, Ansys Cloud, the underlying platform for running Ansys products in the cloud, integrates Azure cloud and HPC services with Ansys simulation technologies. New features will enable customers to use their existing software licenses and reduce modeling run times by increasing cores per job. Additionally, the company says the features will deliver price-performance improvements and incorporate customers’ existing Azure contracts. This could make it easier for larger organizations to migrate from on-premises HPC to Ansys Cloud. “As a…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 26.76
October 19, 2020
…near real-time analytics, will now offer customers access to Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines featuring AMD EPYC processors. In a collaboration between AMD, Azure compute and Azure Data Explorer, the Azure Data Explorer service is now offering the AMD EPYC processor based Azure Dav4, Eav4, Easv4 and Lsv2 VMs for use. The family of AMD EPYC processor based Azure VMs enables Azure Data Explorer customers to gain up to 30%–50% more performance on data analytics workloads for the same cost. With this performance and efficiency, Azure Data Explorer customers can improve the real-time analysis on large volumes of data streaming from…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 30.74
October 06, 2020
Rockwell Automation, Inc. and Microsoft announced a five-year partnership expansion to develop integrated, cloud-based solutions for digital transformation that will provide a single information environment connecting design, operations and maintenance. The two companies will create edge-to-cloud-based solutions that “connect information between development, operations and maintenance teams through a singular, trusted data environment,“ the companies said in a press release. This will allow development teams to digitally prototype, configure and collaborate without investing in costly physical equipment. The data environment could also enable IT and OT teams to securely access and share data models across the organization, as well as with…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.08
October 02, 2020
…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 9.00
August 27, 2020
…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 12.33
August 21, 2020
…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 11.26
August 11, 2020
…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 21.49
July 22, 2020
…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 20.91
June 24, 2020
…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 28.99
June 12, 2020
…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 10.13
May 11, 2020
…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…
