Three main trends are fuelling the demand of batteries: the growth of electrical vehicles, the use of photovoltaic as alternative energy source for homes and the ever increasing use of mobile devices (smartphones to name but one). The numbers are staggering. We buy billions of batteries every year and dispose …

d) Servitization The transformation of products into services is not new. Several verticals have experimented new biz models aiming at generating continuous revenues by delivering services rather than selling a product. Digitalisation creates data, the orchestration of an ecosystem exploits them, often leading to the creation of more data. In …

c) On-demand production The efficiency of the distribution chains coupled with the flexibility of production lines have made possible an amazing change in the production processes and in the relation with the market (and with the end customer). Just two decades ago when buying a car you would have been …

I don’t know about you, but the number of conf calls has exploded at my home. Me and my wife are running parallel conf calls every day, several times a day. We have been using conf calls to meet our kids in the cyberspace (the 4 of them, spread out …

b) design through Digital Twins Digital Twins have become an integral part of the manufacturing process, being used both as a tool and as a mirror of the product being manufactured. Actually, several companies are now starting to use digital twins in the design phase and in doing so they …

a) Design of raw material Humankind discovered the first alloy long, long time ago. Historians place the date somewhere between 5,000 and 6,000 years ago. In the current Iran/India area our ancestors were using copper and discovered that smelting certain copper ore, like Olivenite and Tennantite resulted in a stronger …

Next Monday, December 7th, I will be giving the Opening Keynote at the ITU Kaleidoscope 2020 (you guessed it, it will be a fully on-line event and you can register here). The event, as shown in the banner will be focussing on Industry-driven Digital Transformation. It will address the path …

  13. Instant economy of Things The great change brought by the Industrial Revolution was the production of goods for an unknown customer. Think about it. Before the industrial revolution production was handled by artisans and they worked on demand. Their wares were manufactured based on customer’s specification, be that …

12. Autonomous vehicles and flying cars There are already a number of autonomous vehicles, both self-driving cars and autonomous trucks. Additionally, there are several fully autonomous drones and a few airplanes flying in the sky. However, if we compare those numbers with the numbers of vehicles/planes we can see that …

Back in 2015 (a age ago) an article by the World Economic Forum listed the measuring stick for data quantity. So they started with kB (1,000 bytes) and moved up to reach the ExaBytes – a billion of GB-, the ZettaBytes – 1,000 of EB- and then the YottaBytes – …