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Full Steam Ahead: CIO Kopal Raj of WABTEC on staying ‘on-track’ with AI, IoT and sustainability goals

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Initially, I was naïve about the infrastructure space, but was fortunate to have a great mentor. WABTEC products and locomotives have numerous embedded digital pieces – both hardware and software, which allow us to track performance, and assess their reliability and warranty for the customers.

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Manufacturing CIOs see bright future for the industry, thanks to IT

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Her global IT organization comprises five business-segment CIOs, as well as shared services provided by the CISO, CTO, and the leader of enterprise business systems. To avoid bad boards being created, we used to perform maintenance on a time schedule, and we’d frequently replace good nozzles that still had life in them.

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Pluton Biosciences looks to nature for cutting-edge biotech solutions, raising $6.6M seed

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“There are a trillion species of microbes, and we only use a couple of them,” said Pluton founder and CTO Barry Goldman, who spent nearly two decades at Monsanto looking into similar ideas. By a unique process they are able to perform this isolation process and get the sequencing done on organisms of interest.

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Allozymes looks to upend chemical manufacturing with rapid enzyme engineering and $5M seed

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Part of the complex process that turns raw materials into finished products like detergents, cosmetics and flavors relies on enzymes, which facilitate chemical transformations. These large, complex molecules bind to other substances in a way that facilitates a chemical reaction, say turning sugars in a cell into a more usable form of energy.

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