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

CIO

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. How is WABTEC leveraging emerging technologies like AI and IoT to enhance its manufacturing processes, as well as improve operational efficiency?

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

CIO

CIO 100 award-winner Chris Nardecchia also wears multiple leadership hats in his role as senior vice president and chief digital and information officer of Rockwell Automation, the world’s largest pure-play industrial automation and IoT company. Mackenroth: Everything was previously hardware-centric. Look at Tesla.

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Radar trends to watch: December 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Mitre has released a list of important hardware vulnerabilities. Many of these arise from software embedded in the hardware–but regardless, programmers largely assume that the hardware on which their code runs isn’t vulnerable to attack. Most discussions of security focus on software. Distributed computing with E.

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5 Reasons to Modernize with Cloud: Chemicals Edition

Protera

In recent years, technology advancements like cloud computing, data analytics, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices have created new opportunities for chemical companies but also new pain points as they’ve been required to move out of their comfort zones to digitally transform. Enter: cloud modernization. Quick Takeaways.

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CIOs Discover That Dumb Technology Can’t Always Be Upgraded

The Accidental Successful CIO

Even before the Internet of Things (IoT) becomes a pervasive reality, tech experts and public-safety professionals are fretting over the intersection of virtual and real in what they call cyber-physical security. Retrofitted equipment was never designed with both the software and the hardware in mind at the same time.

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LiLz uses computer vision to read gauges and dials where humans prefer not to tread

TechCrunch

Using a robot is another way to automate it, but doesn’t a network of IoT devices seem more practical than a quadrupedal bot trucking around constantly? version of the hardware as well. Doing daily rounds of these dials is not just dull work for humans, but can be dangerous as well. million Series A round in early 2021. .

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EarthOptics helps farmers look deep into the soil for big data insights

TechCrunch

Using high-tech imaging techniques, the company claims to map the physical and chemical composition of fields faster, better, and more cheaply than traditional techniques, and has raised $10M to scale its solution. The imaging hardware can be mounted on ordinary tractors or trucks, and pulls in readings every few feet.

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