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According to the German Federal Statistical Office, energy consumption by the industry for the production of goods hardly changed between 1995 and 2019. In 2019, it amounted to 3,874 petajoules. This means that it remains at the same level as in previous years. Germany plans to halve its primary consumption of energy by 2050, with the industry having to take part. In the era of the energy crisis, the drive to improve corporate energy efficiency is entering a new level.

In the manufacturing industry, efficiency is key to staying competitive and profitable. One way to improve efficiency is through data visibility. By having access to real-time visibility of the operational data throughout the manufacturing process, companies can identify bottlenecks, monitor production lines, and make data-driven decisions. In this article, we’ll explore how data visibility can help manufacturing companies improve their efficiency and ultimately their bottom line.

We are all blessed to live in very exciting times. Exponential technological progress over the last couple of decades has influenced not only our personal lives but also heavily impacted business. Trends are obviously evolving occasionally, but it is safe to say that now is the time of advanced analytics.

In this article, I’ll guide you through the steps, technical choices, and trade-offs of migrating and modernizing apps to the public cloud, emphasizing beyond lift & shift and PaaS approaches. Using a real-life example, we’ll consider business goals, architecture, and functional/non-functional needs. Business factors will be discussed in the next article.

Cloud computing is constantly changing and evolving. What we see today is different from what it was yesterday and not the same as it will be tomorrow. The only constant is change. Today, conversations about change are not only with IT departments but also, before all, with the business, including marketing, HR, or finance departments. Each has different needs, which can be addressed by the cloud.

Digital transformation and moving towards the idea of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) & Smart Factory (in AWS) are not easy. There are many obstacles waiting for the implementers. The most common are pilot purgatory and scale purgatory.

The long-awaited 11th AWS re: Invent has just come to an end. Transition Technologies PSC marked its presence, among others, thanks to the active participation of our cloud experts. Paweł Zubkiewicz gave a fascinating lecture entitled ” Automated testing of serverless applications,” which was extremely popular. Many people had the opportunity to talk about cloud-related topics.

Ensure business growth in the digital age. Dive into #digitaltransformation to find new opportunities, business models, make changes in your organization and bring a new level of value.
Reinforcing your digital adoption strategy, supported by the right AWS cloud strategy, gives you the chance to achieve the expected results.
In our second article in the series, you will find out how to prepare your employees for what may come on the road towards Industry 4.0.
Get tips on approaching the Smart Factory in AWS from the plan through implementation to achieving the first value.

Energy consumption bills have been a major focus in virtually all areas of industry for many years, and the current global situation is a factor driving up demand for solutions that make it easier to monitor energy consumption or save energy.
In an industrial environment, where the cost of utilities has always been one of the main business drivers, the latest twists and turns in the global economy: inflation, natural resources supply challenges and the threat of fluctuating and unpredictable increases in energy costs – are arguably the most important economic factors these days.

The concept associated with Industry 4.0 is Smart Factory – in other words “intelligent factory”. This type of plant is based on integrated systems with the use of the industrial Internet of Things and new methods of production organization. It is intended to enable a high level of product personalization and run production processes with minimal labor input.
The idea and activities within Smart Industry allow companies to shift market competition from offering a simple product to providing value-added products and competing with process excellence. This applies to cooperation with potential customers from the stage of virtual product design, through simulations, production optimization and real-time monitoring, to after-sales service.

The ubiquitous fourth industrial revolution, named Industry 4.0, is now one of the fastest growing IoT markets. The digital transformation journey is more than bragging about smart innovations and gadgets. It’s often one of the best solutions for dealing with serious bottlenecks in the industry, such as frequent downtime and complete shutdowns of production lines. ThingWorx, as part of Industry 4.0 and the rich catalog of tools supporting it, is a comprehensive IoT product that enables the rapid creation and development of IoT solutions. Combining ThingWorx’s capabilities with AWS cloud can add new features to these solutions. Having ThingWorx running in the cloud (Connector) translates into, among other things, the ability to preprocess IoT data before it even enters ThingWorx. This feature is particularly useful for real-time data, which could otherwise overwhelm ThingWorx if sent directly to it.

The cloud is not on-premise, which means that IT purchases don’t happen according to a strategic plan, but immediately when the architect provisions new resources in the cloud. So how to deal with excessive costs in the AWS cloud? The first and quick solution is cost optimizations, which start by analyzing the accounts and seeing which and how AWS cloud services are used. Based on this, recommendations are made for optimization measures. These actions are part of the long-term adoption of the FinOps culture, which engages finance, technology, and business together to build a process of continuous cloud cost control in the organization.