Important Innovations Collection

Volkswagen's Amazon Built Industrial Cloud Source:  VW Digitalizing Factory Processes Volkswagen is greatly expanding its cloud based software and data portal system.  The world's 3rd largest automaker has a vision and goal to build it into an industrial cloud.  The cloud would serve as an industry wide marketplace where business customers could buy and sell industrial applications.  VW envisions it as an Amazon built B2B marketplace.  VW and Amazon Web Services are designing and partnering on the Industrial Cloud factories of the future concept. App Store Approach The plans for the industrial cloud are bold, innovative and ambitious.  For VW itself,  it will eventually link VW's 120 factories around the world, their 1500 suppliers and their 30,000 plants.  VW wants it to be a place to exchange data and software. The purpose is to accelerate the digitalization of factory processes right down to painting vehicles.  One of the VW ...

Robotic Manufacturing Source:  Automotive Robotic Assembly Line - Stock Image New Numbers for US The number of robots working in US factories has hit a record level.  In 2018, the amount of robots shipped to US factories climbed to 36,000, up 7%.  Automotive manufacturing factories are leading the way.  But the use of robots in manufacturing is also growing in industries like food, plastics and semiconductors.  This information has just been released by the Robotics Industry Association. Robotics and AI Another big trend is emerging in the US concerning AI.  The number of artificial intelligence research center at US universities is significantly on the rise.  The race for domination in robotics and AI, and the investments behind it, are a big competition worth watching between the US and China, with China leading at the moment.  For more news blogs on innovation, go to  amazon.com/author/ekane