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Microsoft and BMW want to make it easier for manufacturers to build smart factories that harness the Industrial Internet of Things and cloud computing. The digital transformation of retail shopping ...

Microsoft and BMW are teaming up to build an open platform for the industrial and automotive industries. Suitably titled the Open Manufacturing Platform (OMP), the project will focus on creating an ...

The advancement of technologies such as artificial intelligence, computer learning, sensors, and analytics has created a buzz about the potential of smart factories across the manufacturing world.

The nature of manufacturing is changing, and at the heart of this transformation is the use of real-time data, automation, robotics and machine learning — to name just a few technologies that ...