In order to address growing opportunities in urbanization and industrialization in Asia, Siemens is setting up a Digitalization Hub in Singapore. The Hub, which was officially inaugurated at parallel events in Singapore and at Siemens' headquarters in Munich on July 11, and is the first of its type for the company worldwide, will develop innovations for IoT and Industry 4.0 in collaboration with customers in Southeast Asia. Siemens’ IoT operating system MindSphere will be the central platform for development work at the new Digitalization Hub.

OSIsoft LLC unveiled a new version of the PI Integrator for Esri ArcGIS, which includes a new time-enabled technology that lets users rapidly explore the history of their operations within ArcGIS web maps.

“Lions only kill when they are hungry”.  This is how Thomas Tauchnitz of Sanofi and member of the NAMUR board of management described the reluctance of end user companies to implement new technologies during the closing podium discussion of the Automation 2017 event in Baden-Baden, Germany.  Consequently, those companies do not feel the need to adopt new technologies or even support their development but several panel members remarked that companies might suddenly be forced to change their minds.

Recognizing the growing demand for mobility within asset-intensive businesses and organizations, BlueCielo introduces the new Meridian Mobile app. The BlueCielo Meridian Mobile app is fully integrated with BlueCielo Meridian software and reportedly gives customers secure remote access to their workflow and tasks information in Meridian whenever they are away from their desktops.

IFS announces the launch of a new proof of concept, developed by the company’s think tank IFS Labs, to reinvent field service management.

IFS Labs has developed an integration between the enterprise applications suite IFS Applications and Microsoft HoloLens that enables service engineers to visualize holographic IFS software data on the HoloLens screen, which is plotted directly on the asset they are to service.

Siemens conducted a “Technology Day” for the engineers and officials of South Eastern Coalfields (SECL) and Central Mine Planning & Design Institute (CMPDIL), at Bilaspur, Chhatisgarh to provide the latest technologies for the mining industry and support the expansion of coal production in the country. Coal India (CIL) is a “Maharatna” company and the largest coal producer in the world. SECL is a fully-owned subsidiary of CIL and the largest coal producing company in India.