Europe’s largest shipping port wants to be the world’s smartest
The Port of Rotterdam is nearly 13,000 hectares in size. Most sports fields are one hectare. Imagine 12,713 of them—filled with ships and quays and people—stretching 41 miles across The Netherlands’ northern coast and out into the North Sea. The port is Europe’s...
Designing better machines: the evolution of a cognitive Digital Twin explained
Planes and pumps, buildings and bridges. Each has unique story to tell, if we have the capability to listen. That surprising truth was the basis for my keynote at Hannover Messe 2018, the world’s largest trade show for industrial technology. If you didn’t attend, I’d...
Buildings with DNA: why today’s “smart” buildings were never dumb
Ask yourself these questions: when was the last time you experienced the latest and most innovative technology, at work? Is your workplace more technically equipped than your home? It is widely accepted that buildings are getting smarter. But were they ever actually...
How the Port of Rotterdam is using IBM digital twin technology to transform itself from the biggest to the smartest
Some processes are so complex that you can’t risk failure by experimenting with a different approach. Other processes are so critical to operations that you dare not go offline to test an innovative method. And many physical processes move with such force that you...