With $25.8 million grant, Microsoft Philanthropies joins forces with Markle to enable American workers to connect with businesses facing a shortage of skilled labor in an era marked by technology disruption.
NASA has achieved a significant milestone in its effort to make supersonic passenger jet travel over land a real possibility by completing the preliminary design review (PDR) of its Quiet Supersonic Transport or QueSST aircraft design. QueSST is the initial design stage of NASA’s planned Low Boom Flight Demonstration (LBFD) experimental airplane, otherwise known as an X-plane.
Paul Dufresne announces the formation of his new company – Reliability Playbook – through which he offers his expertise to manufacturing facilities around the world, helping them develop and implement world class maintenance and reliability programs.
CMMS Data Group released the next generation of Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) software, MVP Plant. The company is offering the upgrade at no additional charge to all MVP Plant customers.
German Manufactured Systems Help Prevent Process Delays & Shutdowns
In the process industry, online condition monitoring of production-critical machines is becoming increasingly important with the rise of the Internet of Things. As a result, manufacturers are gradually replacing their redundant equipment with modern, PC-based data acquisition technology which enables predictable maintenance and scheduled production downtimes.
SparkCognition, one of the world's fastest growing artificial intelligence companies, today announced the close of an initial $32.5 million series B funding round. The investment is led by Verizon Ventures with key participation from The Boeing Company, through its Boeing HorizonX unit.
The American Reliability Tour 2017 follows VibrAlign's successful series of Realigning America Tours mounted over the past four years. The original Realigning America Tours featured free seminars about shaft alignment, belt alignment and couplings. The upcoming Tour will provide valuable training and address attendee's issues about condition monitoring and machinery maintenance.
OSIsoft is extending the PI System data infrastructure to IIoT and edge devices to help customers monitor remote assets and reduce the time and complexity of expanding their infrastructure.
IIoT partner ecosystem includes Dell, Arrow Electronics, B+B SmartWorx Powered by Advantech, ADLINK/PrismTech, RtTech Software and others.
RtTech Software’s IIoT solutions powered by PI System on edge gateways enabling customers to reduce power consumption by 7%, increase asset availability by as much as 10%.