I bet you had several times your general physician auscultating your body. Using the stethoscope she listen to the variety of sounds generated by your breathing, by the hearth, by the blood circulation and all the others “stuff” we have in our body. Now scientists at NorthWestern University have created …
Read More »A few figures on Digital Transformation – II
As I pointed out in the previous post, there is a lot of investment in the Digital Transformation area and more is expected throughout this decade. One area, not unexpected, where investment is going is the IT, Information Technology, in its various forms. Indeed, if we are looking at the …
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3. The future of packaging Packaging is everywhere, from the source of raw materials down to our homes. Think about how many “boxes” we open every day (yes, including the milk cardboard!) and consequently how many we throw away every day. Packaging comes in many forms, as shown in the …
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Enabling the Industrial Metaverse – Digital Twins fidelity A Digital Twin is not exactly like the real thing: you cannot wash your laundry with the Digital Twin of the washing machine! Yet, you can do plenty of things with the digital twin of an object, even something that you …
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Enabling the Industrial Metaverse – Computational Power Industry has embedded processing powers in all its area and a factory today has -most likely- more processing power that the most powerful supercomputer, if we add up all the number crunching chips disseminated on the shop-floor, not to mention the one contained …
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Enabling the Industrial Metaverse – Connectivity structure I already addressed the crucial technologies that are needed in the operation of the Industrial Metaverse. Let me now take a more system wide perspective, starting with the connectivity structure of the Metaverse. Although we already have several concrete examples of industrial Metaverse …
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Industrial Metaverse – Governing the Transition – II I already mentioned that there is quite a bit of overlapping between the Digital Transformation and the Industrial Metaverse. Basically the former paves the way to the latter. You can have a company “using” the metaverse as a tool in some of …
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Industrial Metaverse – Governing the Transition – I As in most evolution from A to B the problem is not as much as what to do once you have transitioned to B, rather how to manage the transition. A smooth transition is on everybody agenda but reality is way more …
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5. IoT The metaverse, whether you see it as a purely digital space “connected” in some ways to the physical space or as a merge of the two spaces needs to have some parts of it “synchronised” with the physical world and “aware” of what is going on in the …
Read More »AI: a self sustaining evolution – III, AI in the Small
Let me spend a few more words on this “AI in the small” from the point of view of the evolution of AI (both as a consequence and as a fuel to its evolution). As shown in the graphic (bear with me, I am not a professional designer and I …
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