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5. Healthcare platforms In yesterday’s post I discussed smart cities platforms noting the importance of privacy as in smart cities we deal with personal data. Well, increase those concerns by a few orders of magnitude and you can step in the domain of healthcare platforms. We already have several healthcare …

There are starting to be so many components, processes and products having a digital twin that there is the interest and need in connecting them in networks (watch the SAP clip). The digital transformation makes possible to operate in the cyberspace, decreasing processing and transaction cost. Digital Twins create a …

Of the four approaches to Digital Platform for the Digital Transformation of Manufacturing, Industry 4.0, the one based on data is the one convincing me most. The end-to-end approach is nice but probably over ambitious and it does not take into account legacy. The Communication based approach to me is …

In a certain sense data come for free to Industry 4.0. What I mean is that over the last decade computers aided tools have become the screwdrivers and pliers of the past in manufacturing. Bits are pervasive in product design, prototyping, digital lathe, robots. And then bits are a crucial …