Mocana Corp. (Sunnyvale, Calif.; www.mocana.com) announced a new partnership with Siemens Digital Industries Software to bring end-to-end security for any Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) devices connecting to the Siemens MindSphere Cloud. Mocana is the leading provider of self-defending cybersecurity…
Baker Hughes (Houston; www.bakerhughes.com), C3.ai, and Microsoft Corp. announced an alliance to bring enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to the energy industry on Microsoft Azure’s cloud computing platform. This alliance will enable customers to streamline the adoption of scalable AI…
Siemens Digital Industries Software (Plano, Tex.; www.sw.siemens.com) has signed an agreement to acquire MultiMechanics, Inc., developer of MultiMech finite element software that helps companies virtually predict failure in advanced materials at an unprecedented level of speed and accuracy. The company…
Siemens Digital Industries Software (Plano, Tex.; www.sw.siemens.com) announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Atlas 3D, Inc., a Plymouth, Indiana-based developer of software that works with direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) printers to automatically provide design engineers with…
ABB (Zurich, Switzerland; www.abb.com) has won a project to install its extended automation system at a greenfield pilot plant for SABIC (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; www.sabic.com) in Jubail, Saudi Arabia, supporting SABIC’s broader vision to digitalize its operations. Leveraging ABB Ability…
Blockchain technology, which establishes a transparent and reliable shared data network, significantly boosts transparency of the raw material supply chain as the information about the material’s origin cannot be changed undetected. The benefits of blockchain are increasingly important for manufacturers…
Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy; www.eni.com) has started the updating work for its new supercomputer system, HPC5, in order to strengthen the existing HPC4 system, tripling its computing power from 18 to 52 petaflops (floating point operations per second), equivalent to…
To improve sustainability, materials manufacturers are welcoming new digital technologies and process innovations into their global supply chains From palm oil to plastics, the global supply chains of many critical raw materials are evolving as consumers and manufacturers increasingly seek…
On September 19, Focus-On (Dordrecht, the Netherlands; www.focus-on-process.com) — a new, 50:50 joint-venture (JV) of Samson AG (Frankfurt am Main; www.samson.de) and Krohne GmbH & Co. KG (Duisburg, both Germany; www.krohne.com) — introduced its new “intelligent process node,” a device…
Understanding how advanced process-control tools, such as edge computing, fit in with an overall digitalization strategy will help manufacturers to see sizable operational and financial performance improvements Today, many companies in the chemical process industries (CPI) are moving toward a…