Anton van der Merwe, Partner
Anton specializes in costing and decision support system design and implementation슠and has published and spoken widely on these topics. His Management Accounting Philosophy and the Debating the Principles articles led…
ABB highlights at Hannover Messe 2019 – Day 2
This year at Hannover Messe, ABB is streamlined into four entrepreneurial businesses: Electrification, Industrial Automation, Motion, and Robotics & Discrete Automation. As our main focus is IIoT, the factory of…
What is eXtended Reality and how does it help workers?
Through all the industrial revolutions, tools and machines have been central to workers realities. But it is only recently that large portions of a workers reality could be digitized with…
Ten Best Practices for Building Smart City Innovation Labs
A new wave of technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI), is transforming cities into smart cities. Many of these cities are building innovation…
Benefits of 5G can usher in a new era for Industrial IoT – and maybe new taxes, too
With the long-anticipated roll-out of 5G, there are high expectations for the potential impact of new technologies and business models enabled by these networks. The advent of 5G brings multiple…
Smart Cities Need Better Self-Storage Solutions
When it comes to smart cities, every industry has to go through a major overhaul: mobility, waste management, utilities, and many more. But it seems the self-storage industry hasnt yet…
One of Deutschland’s Iconic Businesses Addresses the Issue of Trust, Directly
What does it mean to trust someone or something?슠 To my way of thinking, trust is having confidence that a person or organization will take actions that ensure my safety…
A Look at Germany’s AI Strategy
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is nothing new. The field of AI research was founded in 1956. To date, this field has been always covered with huge expectations. Phases of hypes alternated…
HPE Edgeline EL300 with OT Link and new management tools take IT/OT convergence to the next level
For front-line managers who are responsible for bringing슠digital transformation to the industrial edge, there are often difficulties with system deployment and day-to-day operations to contend with. At an auto plant…
MachineMetrics Announces $11.3 Million Series A Funding Round
MachineMetrics, which equips factories with the digital tools needed to increase productivity and win more business,슠announced this week it has raised $11.3 million in Series A financing. Tola Capital led…
24 interesting Startups focused on Industry 4.0 to watch out at the Web Summit
ALPHA 2018 has sold out. ALPHA is a program run by Web Summit organizers and aims to spotlight the early stage startups engineering the future, connecting them to the worlds…
Critical Infrastructure and ICS Security Remain a Network Segmentation Problem
Companies in every industry are developing and implementing connected industrial control applications as strategic digital business initiatives. However, the risks of security breaches and the subsequent impacts to consumer privacy…