Generali Vitality, an innovative platform promoting a healthy lifestyle, faced a challenge in expanding its user base beyond Germany, Austria, and France. The company aimed to become a lifetime health partner to its members by offering a best-in-class user experience across all user journeys and channels. The goal was to increase user engagement and retention with a unique product feel. However, the challenge lay in optimizing and introducing new features continuously without lengthy product development and release cycles. The company needed a solution that could scale to tens of thousands of users, integrate multiple rewards partners, and be localizable for multiple markets and languages. To achieve this, Generali Vitality needed to collaborate with a partner that could provide a tailor-made solution.

To meet the demands of its rapidly growing business, Senior Lifestyle Corporation needed to provide consistent, high-quality resident care while ensuring its staff could meet the highest standards for excellence and safety.

Gerdau was looking to reduce their annual maintenance spend while also improving productivity, thus targeting margin improvements within their manufacturing operations. 

Across the nation, utility companies, state regulators and policy makers are considering many potential solutions and strategies for managing an evolving power grid and energy industry. From policy measures like the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan regulations, to the President’s first Quadrennial Energy Review, to infrastructure modernization efforts, utility companies and state regulators are in a period of intense progress and scrutiny. Of these measures, the EPA’s Clean Power Plan is particularly significant. It aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from existing fossil fuel-fired power plants. Citing authority under Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act, the EPA released the final regulations in August 2015, requiring states to develop and submit state plans to achieve the federal emissions reduction goals. The Clean Power Plan also fosters a spirit of state/federal collaboration urging states to work hand-in-hand with each other and the EPA to come to optimal reduction structures. Despite the debate over the legality of the EPA’s proposed plan, utilities and regulatory bodies are already analyzing the cost and benefits of a variety of measures to respond including coal plant conversions, renewable energy investments, energy efficiency programs and more.

In 2008, the City of Nice made a commitment to become a model Eco City and put in place a plan for renovation by launching the Connected Boulevard Project. One of the key areas of focus was to develop green transportation and reduce the negative consequences of urban activity on the citizens of the city.

Opel Rüsselsheim faced difficulties closely monitor on average about 60,000 messages a day which are critical to it's daily operations. This in turn affects the firm's ability to create innovative technologies that strengthen and guarantee the quality of its automobiles

With recent population growth and aging infrastructure are pressing municipalities to raise water rates between five to 11 percent a year, driving commercial and agricultural customers to consider more efficient water use and promote sustainable practices. Hence, the need for better remote water management is at an all-time high.

Western Digital R&D teams continuously run testing cycles, as a part of the organization’s mission to deliver innovative products to a wide variety of customers. DevTest projects require setting up and customizing physical servers; these are not only resource intensive tasks, but also time-consuming and often result in a slow time-to-market. Scaling up and out adds another layer of complexity, especially given the difficulty of managing various hardware configurations.

With its proven expertise in the IoT market, Faststream Technologies was approached to help a control system & equipment design and manufacturing company to deliver complete IoT solutions for their lifestyle appliance. In this modern 21st century technology enable that appliance environment in remotely located computer communication systems and control assemblies and software connected by a standard Internet connection and capable of bilateral transfer and interpretation of status files. Also presented herein are business processes of remotely managing, monitoring, and/or controlling the environmental parameters of appliance environments using electronic control systems installed in the appliance in combination with a remotely located control system, wherein the two systems are in communication through an Internet connection.

SCCC had committed to running a showcase Digital Factory for the ASEAN region and had already invested heavily in smart factory equipment and sensors. They required a predictive maintenance system that would leverage their existing investments and integrate with their SAP PM maintenance system.

Hess Corporation, a global energy producer, was in need of a materials management technology that could enhance accuracy and efficiency across their entire supply chain. This included connectivity to onshore warehouses and yards, as well as remote locations such as ships and offshore platforms. The company was keen on transitioning to paperless operations and required a system that was user-friendly and adaptable to minor configuration changes as per business needs.

Monitoring and assessing key welfare indicators such as weight, water consumption, temperature, humidity, and CO2 levels within poultry houses is essential for ensuring sustainable and productive poultry farming practices. However, assessing these indicators in large poultry farms that rear millions of birds each year is no easy undertaking.A customer managing 700,000 birds across 7 farms required a solution to wirelessly monitor parameters including climate, water consumption, and bird weights. Prior to implementing the PrognositX - Poultry Sense IoT solution, this customer manually took readings of temperature and humidity conditions and input those values into a spreadsheet. This proved to be a lengthy and increasingly inefficient process. Conditions in every shed and farm can vary, and with increasingly stringent audit requirements, the customer required a solution that would enable them to efficiently and consistently capture, track, and interpret real-time data.

Guardsman Group, a leading security company in the Caribbean, faced a significant challenge in maintaining the security of its digital infrastructure. The company provides security equipment, personnel, and systems for various businesses across the region. However, one of its offices experienced a security incident that affected all communications at that location. The existing security tools were not sufficient to provide the necessary protection, and it took hours to identify the source of the issue. This incident highlighted the need for a dynamic solution that could proactively identify threats. The company's primary concern was any disruption to its business, as it manages a significant portion of Jamaica's money and cannot afford for its operations to go down.

To improve production capacity and avoid downtime, a global biotechnology manufacturing company implemented Seebo Predictive Analytics.The company’s quarterly operations review revealed a 3.6% increase in downtime during production. This downtime stemmed from an unexplained viscosity in one product in the production line.The resulting pipeline blockages between the reactor and the centrifuge in the production line led to more frequent equipment cleaning procedures and stoppage during the batch production, high levels of waste, a decreased capacity, and lengthened time to market.The investigative team could not identify a reason for the blockage, as all relevant production parameters were in the approved working range.

The Condensate Cooling Water (CCW) pump, one of the critical pumps in maintaining steadystate operations, is a horizontal vane pump operating at up to 1650 m3/hr with a discharge pressure of 9 MPa (62 psi) at 986 rpm. Each day this pump is offline costs the plant $250,000 in lost revenue and each failure costs tens of thousands of dollars to execute an unplanned repair. Thus, Larsen & Toubro (L&T) really needed a predictive maintenance solution to detect faults at an early stage and provide a reliable prediction of Remaining Useful Life (RUL)

Simeco is the manufacturer of Teka premium cooking appliances.  Teka strives to combine quality, convenience and efficiency in everything they do, to achieve the best solution for its customers.  The joint effort to provide “meaningful experiences” for their customers begins at Simeco’s 24,000 square meter manufacturing facility, which has the capacity to build 500,000 units a year, on its six production lines. It is at this site where the company manages the materials used for assembly, the assembly process itself, and also constantly seeks ways to improve efficiency and eliminate errors.As part of that effort, Simeco wanted a technology-based solution that would automatically monitor the receipt and consumption of materials, as well as the work taking place on its production lines, and automatically detect and prevent any errors in the testing and control processes.The company wanted the technology not only to bring real time visibility into its product processes, it wanted a way to manage the overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) as well.Simeco needed an automated system to be able to detect and identify when an error could be made in mounting components, as well as provide support for assembly workers by displaying relevant instructions on the assembly floor. The technology also needed to be able to capture analytical data so the company could continue to improve its processes.Litum’s UHF RFID solution automatically tracks a tagged component or unit as it moves through assembly. With location and status data from the solution, the software can provide contextualized information to those on the assembly floor and to managers overseeing processes, historically as well as in real time.To ensure the technology would meet the company’s needs, Litum customized the solution, thereby reducing costs. One example was the engineering of the tags themselves: Litum worked with Simeco to develop a reusable tag, thereby increasing sustainability and reducing cost. The reusable tags, attached and detached with a specialized assisting tool, uniquely identify a component, and can be detached and reused on subsequent assembly processes.Litum also specially designed the middleware to integrate with the brand's existing manufacturing system. The result is a software platform known as the Simeco Traceability Software.

In today’s rapidly changing market, customization has become the new normal. This presents new quality assurance challenges as product complexity and unique configurations increase in volume and rate of change.Volvo’s engines are very sophisticated with 4,500 different engine information variants for just one plant and for 13,000 variants for the full plant for referencing.Training new operators on the complex inspection procedures takes five weeks, which adds to the overall cost of quality.

With its new cloud-based, horizontal blockchain-as-a-service offering, Oracle aims to enable enterprises to explore different blockchain use cases without having to set up new infrastructure for each use case. It is a PaaS offering that leverages Hyperledger Fabric v1.0, and the company plans to evolve the platform’s capabilities as customer needs dictate. 

Mount Ruapehu in New Zealand is the most active volcano in the world. Major eruptions occur about every fifty years, with 60 or more minor eruptions since 1945. To add to this hazardous situation, the volcano’s crater periodically fills with water between eruptions causing the crater wall to collapse and release flood water and mud down the mountain onto inhabited areas. On Christmas Eve 1953 such a flood, called a lahar, washed an overnight train off a bridge, leading to the loss of 153 lives.

Seeing that one of their goals is to find ways to better answer consumer and business needs, the Global Engineering (GE) team was facing the challenge of improving processes and performance of the surfacing machines to significantly improve their production by using the increasing volume of data."We wanted a data science platform that would allow us to solve our business use cases very quickly. Thanks to Dataiku and its collaborative platform, which is agile and flexible, data science has become the norm and is now used more widely within our organization and around the world," said Cédric Sileo, Data Science Leader at Global Engineering, Essilor.

Blue Ocean Technology, a company specializing in aquaculture waste management, was seeking an innovative solution to optimize their systems that convert fish sludge into valuable fertilizer. The company aimed to construct a compact system that would minimize both their environmental footprint and power consumption. They also wanted to remotely monitor the drives and motors that manage the pumps in their system. Ensuring the cybersecurity of their plant was another significant challenge they faced. The company was in need of a solution that would not only meet these requirements but also enhance their profitability and sustainability.

Asian Paints has a very automated production line but felt they did too much flat reporting. Within a management, there was a feeling they were generating a lot of data, but they weren't sure how to get more value out of this data.

Frucor has experienced rapid growth, and with it increased volumes and complexity of business data. The company has a core SAP (System Applications and Products) system that does an excellent job of collecting and processing company-wide data. As the business continues to expand locally and internationally the company's data warehousing overhead was becoming complex, resulting in some reports taking too long to process.

Industry 4.0 is gradually becoming a reality, and manufacturers are actively transforming their production process into intelligent manufacturing systems by leveraging Information Technology (IT) and Operations Technology (OT).The main concept of Industry 4.0 is to realize transparent vertical and horizontal integration from the production line to management level so as to increase productivity and efficiency. In other words, the resources available throughout the entire production process must be digitalized and networked so that they can be visible and completely availability.

The orthotics and prosthetics (O&P) industry has been largely dominated by manual craftsmanship. The challenge was to introduce digital technologies to orthotic and prosthetic design and manufacturing to support manual processes with digital workflows and tools. The two main challenges for orthotists and prosthetists were the production of the correct function and the suitability to the patient’s size and strength ratio, and developing an interface to the human body that can transfer and absorb force without causing chafing or similar irritations. The traditional workflow to produce a prosthetic begins with molding the body part with plaster, which maintains a few advantages over direct 3D scanning of the patient's limb. However, due to the high degree of manual work and experience orthotists and prosthetists bring to their work, it is nearly impossible to exactly replicate a good outcome.

The client needed a new solution based on a fleet management system to track its vehicles’ locations around Europe and provide real-time analytics that allowed a more efficient exploitation of its valuable fleet and personnel resources and calculation of the amount of fees to be paid by different types of vehicles based on route distances. The main challenge was to boost the system’s performance, enable multi-tenant architecture, support the program in hosted/on-premise mode and provide availability in multiple languages.

The cosmetics market requires manufacturers to make quick changes in the matters of both production and distribution. In this market segment, one of the principal marketing tools is grouping products in packages (for example, shampoo + conditioner, cream + makeup remover). So far such process has been carried out in the Polish division of L’Oréal through outsourcing, which has limited the possibilities of a dynamic reaction to market impulses.

CPU board designed for use in complex hardware systems implements functions of relay protection, control, and automation. The CPU boards for Embedded systems, Faststream Technologies offers a broad portfolio of x86 and ARM-based Embedded boards in the most common form factors and various performance classes. We design and manufacture custom CPU boards and Carrier boards for Scale and Freescale ARM-based architectures. We design and produce ad-hoc solutions that integrate your I/O needs onboard to perfectly suit your machine needs. We deliver complete systems from a mechanics and accessories point of view.

Toyo Tire, a Japanese-based tire manufacturer, was facing the challenge of keeping up with the rapid changes in the automotive industry. With the advent of electric vehicles and connected cars, the company recognized the need to innovate and develop new types of tires to meet these specific needs. However, their existing product development processes were not sufficient to keep pace with the industry's transformation. The company's data was held in siloes, preventing users from easily accessing all the information they needed. This lack of integration was hindering their ability to innovate and develop new products efficiently. Toyo Tire needed a solution that would accelerate its product development processes and put innovation at the core of its activities.

Branch Technology, a Tennessee-based company that designs and manufactures commercial facade systems, was in need of a software solution that could process complex geometries to produce a multitude of components for various digital fabrication methods. The company was inspired by nature's efficient cellular structures and had developed a construction-scale, freeform 3D-printing technique and direct digital manufacturing approach called cellular fabrication (C-Fab®). However, they were facing challenges in implementing a digital process that could eliminate digital fabrication bottlenecks, be easily updated, and yield high fidelity parts. The company was in search of a solution that could help them imagine, compose, and construct complex design structures with ease and precision.