A short flashback on Industry 4.0 (though it is a known subject already) Industry 4.0, also known as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, refers to a new phase in the evolution of industry and manufacturing that is characterized by the integration of digital technologies, automation, data exchange, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) into various aspects of industrial…
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Software estimation and outsourcing complexities in manufacturing solutions
What exactly the software estimation is and why it’s so important? Cost estimation is very important element of software development process & it helps enterprises to make cost-effective business decisions. However 50% of the time effort & cost estimations get wrong that results into overshooting of cost and efforts of the project. We generally estimate…
Why Digital Transformation in manufacturing industry takes place very slowly or sometimes even fails?
As we all know, digital transformation is the novel use of digital technology to accelerate business strategy of an industry. In other words, it is the application of digital technologies to empower people, optimize processes and to automate systems of the industry to achieve a step-by-step change in business performance. It’s no longer surprising news…
Smart City – Needs for High Performance Computing (HPC) Infrastructure & As-a-Service Models in Smart City Projects
What is High Performance Computing (HPC)? High Performance Computing (HPC) is a practice of aggregating computing power in a way that delivers much higher performance than one could get out of a typical desktop computer or workstation or server. HPC is the ability to process data and perform complex calculations at high speeds. It is…
Smart City – Big Data Analytics
How Big Data relates to Smart-City Solutions? Smart city projects generally use sensors and connected devices to collect and analyze data. This data is used to optimize city operations, manage resources, and improve the everyday life of citizens. Smart cities utilize technology to improve… Access to public transport Manage traffic Optimize water usage and power supply…
Industrial Modern Data Acquisition System (DAS) with Edge, Data Lake and Data Analytics Solution using AWS
Industrial DAS with Edge and Data Lake using AWS Below reference architecture provides a baseline of integrating Bosch’s DeviceBridge DAS (Data Acquisition System) and Indus Visualizer with AWS services, which yields modern industrial IoT solution addressing Connect-Collect-Consume layers to full extent. You must first understand what is DeviceBridge. It is explained below… DeviceBridge is a…
Azure HDInsight and Azure Databricks – When to choose one over the other
Azure HDinsight Azure HDInsight is a cloud distribution of the Hortonworks Data Platform’s (HDP) Hadoop components. Azure HDInsight essentially brings both Hadoop and Spark to the same table to help enterprises manage both easily using several tools. This platform also offers a standard notebook experience by providing support for Jupyter and Zepplin. Azure HDInsight is…
Leveraging capabilities of NLP in manufacturing industries
Let us first try to understand what is NLP? How it relates to AI-ML subject? Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a broad and rapidly evolving segment of today’s emerging digital technologies, often generalized as Artificial Intelligence (AI). Wikipedia defines NLP as “a subfield of AI concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages,…
COTS or Custom Software – A toughest decision for customers.!!!
When to build custom software and when to buy COTS (commercial-off-the-shelf) software? Whether to build a custom software on your own, or buy COTS software that is fitting your business to great extent. In fact, many manufacturing industries face this difficult question while implementing IT projects like MES, regardless of whether they are large industries…
Factory robot can learn on its own and improve its efficiency and accuracy overnight. How?
Deep Reinforcement Learning algorithms for Robots These days, Deep Reinforcement Learning algorithms are used in factory robots to make them learning from mistakes on their own without needing to write any new AI/ML program. This way, self learning by Robots is claimed to be happening within overnight. Which means that, after eight hours or so…