Can Artificial Intelligence Solve Our Future Starvation Problem?
May 26, 2022
The agriculture sector is a major occupation in many countries, and its importance is greater than ever. According to UN projections, the world’s current population of 7.5 billion is expected to increase to 9.7 billion by 2050. Today’s farms will be hard pressed to feed the additional two billion…
4 Routes to Help Automakers’ Sustainability Efforts
May 19, 2022
Sustainability and other “green practices” are part of many industries’ strategic goals around the globe. Car manufacturing, especially, has it high on their objective list since transportation is the number one source of greenhouse gas emissions. Being an environmentally-conscious company…
3 Ways Steel Companies Are Reducing Carbon Emissions
March 31, 2022
Steel manufacturing is an important part of our modern world. Imagine a world without steel. How would our buildings look? Same with our cars, ships, etc. As you can imagine, construction gets the lion share of steel production with a whopping 52 percent. This is followed by the production of…
Cloud Computing is Transforming the Oil and Gas Industry
March 22, 2022
Cloud computing has the power to make the oil and gas industry more efficient and eco-friendly on every level. Cloud computing provides a decentralized place to store and access data with virtually no limit, which makes data analysis much easier for those making the big decisions in the gas and…
Three Computer Advances that Increase Steelmakers’ Productivity and Profit
February 24, 2022
Silicon, in the form of a chip shortage, has dominated the news for the past 3-4 years. It’s unsurprising given the role of computers in our lives. But even though the modern world revolves around computers, they’ve only been around since the mid 70’s. Steel has been around much…
Tips in Choosing the Right Fleet Management Computer
February 22, 2022
Fleet management is the process of organizing, tracking, and maintaining a vehicle fleet. Fleets usually consist of commercial cars, trucks, buses, and cargo vans. Fleet management is done through a fleet management system (FMS). This combo of hardware and software collects data from an on-board…
5 Reasons Why Rugged Industrial Computers are Best for Oil Refineries
February 8, 2022
An oil refinery is a manufacturing plant that takes crude oil and converts it into useful petroleum products: gasoline, lubricating and motor oils, petroleum gas, tar, etc. Because of the time-consuming and intense nature of the process, refineries present unique challenges to electronics like…
4 More Surprising Uses For Industrial RFID Technology
February 3, 2022
Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID, is the scanning of special tags with radio waves. These tags can be affixed on items from boxes to wrist bands, and can contain information like the item’s name, SKU number, to even a picture. That information is then scanned and stored by using RFID…
Best Practices for Manufacturers When Going Green
December 7, 2021
You already know that going green involves redesigning a single product or process at your facility to make it more environmentally-friendly. And that being sustainable is looking at a product’s entire life-cycle as a whole, like sourcing goods composed of recyclable materials, processed locally in…
How Power Over Ethernet and RFID Will Declutter Your Workplace
August 4, 2021
In our busy modern world, it can feel like our lives are full of clutter, and not just the physical kind. We’re constantly surrounded by technology that is supposed to make our lives easier and more efficient, but it often feels like that same technology is the cause of the clutter in many cases.…
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