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AVEVA’s Third Digital Conference Assembles Environmental Sustainability Experts to Discuss how Technology Is Helping to Lower Carbon Footprint

23Jan

By Africa BusinessNo Comments

Events, Tech

AVEVA’s Third Digital Conference Assembles Environmental Sustainability Experts to Discuss how Technology Is Helping to Lower Carbon Footprint

AVEVA World Digital Conference Convenes Industry leaders to Discuss Emerging Trends, Meeting Sustainability and Business Goals, and The Role of the Connected Workforce in Accelerating the Digital Journey AVEVA, a global leader in engineering and industrial software, announced its third AVEVA World Digital (AWD) conference, themed ‘Accelerate Your Digital Intelligence' which will take place from 26-28 January 2021. The online event will explore how leading companies are embracing innovation and applying intelligent software to reshape their industrial operations. It will demonstrate how emerging technologies such as AI, Cloud, Digital Twin, Visualization and data & analytics are supporting advancements in sustainability, and enabling organizations to make significant changes to improve ...

20Jan

By Africa BusinessNo Comments

South Africa News, Tech

The Role Of Painting Robots

For a long time, the most common form of industrial painting required the use of human specialist coating teams, and typically, these jobs included the painting of warehouses, machinery or automobiles. It is a large-scale process that demands high levels of safety measures and protective gear and is prone to errors that waste resources, time, and money. Today, advancements in the world of industrial robotic solutions have paved the way for painting robots. These sophisticated machines offer large-scale manufacturing operations, a customised automation solution that boasts precision, efficiency, programmability, and safety, particularly in the automotive industry. Globally, the implementation of painting robots is well-established and still steadily growing. In South Africa, we have seen t...

12Jan

By Hennie KrugerNo Comments

Tech

A new horizon for print and communication service providers

By Hennie Kruger, Head of Commercial Print at Canon South Africa Print and communication service providers specialising in direct mail and transactional applications have come a long way in the last 10 years. To keep pace in our digital world, they have continuously evolved their services to meet the demands for shorter runs and personalisation. Thanks to the introduction of and advances in inkjet, these printers are now able to offer single-pass printing, making way for higher margins, less inventory and shorter turnaround times. Let’s take a closer look at the evolution of this market and how Canon’s ColorStream web-fed inkjet technology is enabling print and communication service providers to enhance their product offering and increase profit margins. Today’s customer is demanding. Surr...

HONOR 10X Lite – the Choice of Millennials

12Jan

By Africa BusinessNo Comments

Tech

HONOR 10X Lite – the Choice of Millennials

HONOR 10X Lite Combines Outstanding Photography with Stylish Looks and Long Battery Life to Create a Smartphone for the Always-On Generation Global technology brand, HONOR, has created the smartphone of choice for millennials, the feature-packed HONOR 10X Lite. With 48MP AI Quad Camera Camera, 6.67” HONOR FullView display, 128GB of storage and GPU Turbo 3.0, all backed with an exceptionally long batter life, the HONOR 10X Lite is the perfect smartphone to meet the demands of the busy digital lifestyles of the millennial generation. The HONOR 10X Lite is designed to be the ideal device for the always-on, always-connected millennial, providing advanced camera technology for exceptional multimedia performance, supported with superior features and stylish looks. Available in three colors - Mi...

AVEVA achieves Microsoft Gold Application Development competency and Silver Cloud Platform, Data Analytics, and Data Center competencies

11Jan

By Africa BusinessNo Comments

Tech

AVEVA achieves Microsoft Gold Application Development competency and Silver Cloud Platform, Data Analytics, and Data Center competencies

AVEVA earns distinction and market leadership through demonstrated technology success and customer commitment. AVEVA, a global leader in engineering and industrial software today announced it has attained a Gold Application Development competency and Silver Cloud Platform, Data Analytics, and Data Center competencies, demonstrating a ‘best-in-class’ ability and commitment to meet Microsoft Corp. customers’ evolving needs in today’s mobile-first, cloud-first world and distinguishing itself within a small percentage of the Microsoft partner ecosystem. A portfolio of competencies showcases that AVEVA is committed to focusing on on-demand, business solution areas, along with ensuring it can meet the evolving needs of our mutual customers. To earn a Microsoft competency, partners must successfu...

Cisco reveals the top 6 tech trends for 2021 and beyond

10Jan

By Africa BusinessNo Comments

Tech

Cisco reveals the top 6 tech trends for 2021 and beyond

From a greater adoption of sensors to a password-less future and closing the digital divide, 2021 will accelerate technologies that allow for more agility, resilience, and innovation Cisco has revealed the top tech trends for 2021 and beyond with technologies that enable businesses to be more agile, resilient, and better prepared for unexpected challenges coming to the fore. In 2020, the arrival of future digital transformation occurred far faster than expected and research from Cisco expects this trend to continue during 2021. “As the pandemic unfolded, we worked with our customers to move from business continuity to business agility. We also helped to deliver and scale innovative application experiences faster than ever before. With those changes in mind, we see six key trends defining ...

A Young Egyptian Researcher Attracts the Attention of British and European Oil Companies. Dr. Mohammad ElSayed Develops the First Multi-Sensing Robot System for Monitoring Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms in Britain

5Jan

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Egypt News, Energy, Science, Tech

A Young Egyptian Researcher Attracts the Attention of British and European Oil Companies. Dr. Mohammad ElSayed Develops the First Multi-Sensing Robot System for Monitoring Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms in Britain

In an interview with Iris Media Agency, Dr. Mohammed ElSayed, a young Egyptian researcher at the University of Edinburgh, asserted that his success in developing a new multi-sensing robot has attracted the attention of both British and European oil and gas companies. Dr. Mohammad, who is currently spending his vacation in Abu Dhabi, mentioned that his novel invention will be be deployed in large collectives for monitoring offshore oil and gas platforms, as it designed to be low-cost and highly manufacturable. At the age of 25, Dr. Mohammed ElSayed has successfully received a PhD in Robotics from The University of Edinburgh on this research project under the supervision of Dr. Adam Stokes, becoming one of the youngest scientists in the universit...

Organic wholesaler doubles output with AutoStore empowered by Swisslog

5Jan

By Africa BusinessNo Comments

Tech

Organic wholesaler doubles output with AutoStore empowered by Swisslog

The leading wholesaler in the Swiss organic market, Bio Partner, has doubled its output following the implementation of innovative robotic logistics from Swisslog at its facility in Aargau, Switzerland. Bio Partner supplies business customers in the organic specialist trade as well as the rest of the retail and food industry from its location in Seon. As a result of the merger with Somona GmbH, the warehouse reached its performance and capacity limits, and the wholesaler turned to a local partner with a global footprint to deliver an automated storage system. The 12,200m2 warehouse handles 10,000+ products, a process now optimized thanks to the high-performance AutoStore storage solution, delivered by global warehouse automation specialist, Swisslog, a member of the KUKA group. "Companies...

New Swedish technology to support a greener aviation recovery

28Oct

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Tech

New Swedish technology to support a greener aviation recovery

Flying is like competition sailing: it is all about using good winds and avoiding unfavorable air currents. To allow airlines to fully use the favorable winds there is a new weather optimization service available that shows exactly how the wind blows and where there is bad weather in the atmosphere. With this knowledge airlines can save hundreds of tons of fuel per month which also means less emissions. The best feature of the new optimisation service, delivered by AVTECH Sweden, is that airlines don’t have to make any investments to use it. All heavy calculations are made on the ground and just a small amount of data is uploaded to already existing onboard equipment. Low cost airline Norwegian is acknowledged as one of the most fuel-efficient airlines in the world. The company is also on...

Top 5 Reasons Why Kenya is a Leading Tech Hub

23Sep

By John BrooksNo Comments

Kenya News, Tech

Top 5 Reasons Why Kenya is a Leading Tech Hub

The Kenyan government has spared no expense in supporting tech startups of the country, and as a result, Kenya has quickly become the tech hub of Africa. With tons of tech startups facilitating the economy of the country. With facilities like NTSA TIMS, Kenya’s people can easily make it big in the tech industry very quickly. Below are the top 5 reasons why Kenya is a leading Tech Hub in Africa. 1. Performance Breeding Performance Let us remember the first two technological success stories that have emerged from Kenya during the last decade. These advances have centered on the growth and prospects of mobile technologies in the world. Safaricom launched the first M-PESA in 2007. With 42% of Kenya's GDP streaming into a revolutionary mobile payment network and more than 677 billion payments, ...