Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced new HPE Edgeline Converged Edge System solutions designed to help speed the deployment and simplify the management of edge applications, enabling customers to act on the vast amounts of data generated by machines, assets and sensors from edge to cloud.

ThoughtTrace, a tech company that uses AI for quickly assessing and compiling critical information in legal documents, is working with P2 Tobin on a Shale Lease Management system that will give upstream professionals in corporate development, land, GIS and geoscience instant access to expanded lease attributes, obligations, provisions and clauses.

Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced that it has enhanced the Field Assistant software for the field inspections of industrial facilities and is releasing it as Field Assistant R2.03. Field Assistant is a solution in Yokogawa’s OpreX Operational Risk Management family.

Rockwell Automation announced its newly expanded portfolio of Allen-Bradley VersaView 5200 thin clients using ThinManager software, designed to help manufacturers more easily manage their applications.

Element, a developer of analytics data management and integration software for industrial companies, announced the Element Asset Framework Accelerator, a combination of software and services that reportedly enables companies to create Asset Framework data models for the OSIsoft PI System.

At our ARC European Industry Forum 2018, Chris Hazlewood, Senior Manager at MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC, gave an important Key Note speech about two key technologies forming the digital enterprise; Edge Computing and Artificial Intelligence (AI) but it seems the company has been working in the background on a third: 3D printing.

Tata Consultancy Services announced the launch of its intelligent power plant solution, TCS IP2, to help power generating utilities digitally transform their operations and gain a competitive edge in the dynamic power market.

Rockwell Automation announced the latest release of its Studio 5000 integrated development environment, designed to help get smart machines to market faster with enhanced security.  The software includes new digital design capabilities to help reduce machine design time, as well as testing and commissioning times.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) was one of the buzzwords on the SPS/IPC/Drives 2018 at Nuremberg, Germany. ARC experts have been keeping an eye on this topic for some time as the topic has become a real hype over the last 12 months. Read our ARC blogs “Artificial Baby!” and “UK – Serious about AI” to get up to speed on recent developments and expect to see more insights from our side in the near future.

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) announced results for the Deep Learning Facility Testbed.  IIC-member participants Dell EMC and Toshiba developed an application to explore deep learning through neural networks within an IoT platform to optimize asset utilization in an office building.