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AVEVA LAUNCHES CONNECT, THE WORLD’S LEADING INDUSTRIAL INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM
retailers offer same- or next-day delivery on mixed cases of wine, beer and spirits. Robotics can be instrumental in achieving the above. The fragile and heavy bottles that often come in all shapes and sizes, from individual bottles of beer to bottles of champagne, also need careful handling and attention. Picking bottles and cans manually is difficult because of their weight, and pushing a trolley stacked with them can be an arduous task that few people want to do. This can lead to health and safety challenges as well as exacerbating the labour shortages that so many warehouses are facing. Instead, embracing robotics increases productivity by up to five times and makes life easier for staff, who will no longer need to pick and move full cases of alchohol. For B2B wholesalers selling full cases of
alcohol who want or need to shift towards direct- to-consumer sales, automation provides plenty of opportunity to overcome the disruption this might otherwise cause in a warehouse where traditional picking methods are in use. This would enable them to deliver mixed cases or individual items right to people’s doorsteps, opening up new revenue streams with ease. Additionally, the same system can automate
full case picking for stores, as well as mixed case picking for e-commerce – all with the same levels of productivity. It’s this kind of agility that is setting smaller distributors apart from the incumbents, and the latter need to adopt new ways of thinking to keep up.
SUCCESS ON TAP Beer, wine, and spirits distributors must automate warehouse distribution or risk being left behind by competitors that can prepare and distribute orders faster, more efficiently, and at lower cost. Companies that adopt robotic goods-to-
person automation will continue to become more resilient against the challenges affecting the industry today. From reducing dependence on manual labour and boosting productivity, to maximising space within the warehouse, these innovative systems position businesses to meet the ever-changing market demands now and grow even faster in the future.
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decision-makers in diverse sectors. CONNECT empowers industrial leaders with a deeper understanding of their business and an intelligent digital twin that unifies insights across their industrial ecosystem to drive performance, optimise efficiency, and maximise sustainability for increased ROI. Built on the trusted software of AVEVA, CONNECT brings together applications from diverse other providers including Schneider Electric, RIB, ETAP, and other partners. As an open and neutral digital platform spanning the entire industrial lifecycle in real time, CONNECT offers native data services, visualisation services, modelling and analytics capabilities, application development services, as well as service and usage management. Within a single experience, the platform brings together data, the digital twin, industrial artificial intelligence, and deep domain expertise. Thanks to its cloud foundation on Microsoft Azure, CONNECT also empowers industries with scalable capabilities that can unlock new levels of sustainability and efficiency. Caspar Herzberg, CEO, AVEVA says, “The
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connected industrial economy will unlock the benefits of global collaboration across the industrial ecosystem. As the world’s leading industrial intelligence platform, CONNECT empowers industrial teams with a holistic understanding of the value chain and sparks real-time innovation at every level. Enhanced with analytics and AI, this unique and complete data ecosystem provides unparalleled efficiency in one frictionless environment, where teams are empowered to engineer smarter, operate better and drive profitability. “ “CONNECT is accelerating the next wave of
industrial digital transformation (Industrial DX 2.0). This AI-infused platform shares and unifies relevant industrial intelligence in the cloud to drive enhanced efficiency, productivity, and sustainability for companies, their partners and customers. From streamlining workflows to real-time monitoring and control, to improving remote collaboration, and maximising the end- to-end lifecycle performance of industrials assets, CONNECT addresses the industry’s digital transformation needs” Herzberg adds. CONNECT enables industrial enterprises to
make the most of their technology investment in the cloud by combining remote assets,
VEVA has unveiled CONNECT, the world’s fastest growing industrial intelligence platform providing trusted and actionable insights to
applications from AVEVA, and 3rd-party data sources into one single, secure platform, creating a unique industrial ecosystem calibrated for game-changing innovation. According to IDC’s 2023 Future of Industry
Ecosystems global survey, the vast majority (90 per cent) of 1,288 industrial C-suite and business leaders said they planned to maintain or accelerate their investment in their unique data ecosystems. IDC’s survey spanned decision-makers across energy, construction, process manufacturing, government and other industries around the world.
HOW CONNECT UNLOCKS NEW INDUSTRY PARADIGMS ZGlobal, a California-based consulting firm, closed the gap between insight and emissions reduction using CONNECT’s cloud-based data-sharing solutions to consult and contextualise in real time insights from across their solar power ecosystem. Tangible outcomes include enhanced transparency for both companies and their partners, thousands of dollars saved, and thousands of metric tons of carbon emissions avoided - all while enabling the clean energy transition. CONNECT is already used by tens of thousands of active users each month. Featured products within CONNECT's near- limitless boundaries include AVEVA PI System, AVEVA Operations Control, AVEVA Unified Engineering, AVEVA Advanced Analytics, AVEVA Asset Information Management , RIB CostX, and more. The CONNECT ecosystem is growing to include new and exciting partnerships that will form the basis of a new industrial applications marketplace. For example, AVEVA and Microsoft unify and
contextualise production execution data and supply chain production planning data in Microsoft Fabric, using AVEVA’s industrial intelligence platform, CONNECT, and Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing. Matt Kerner, CVP Microsoft Cloud says: “CONNECT bridges the gap between operational technology and information technology. CONNECT seamlessly integrates data, enables real-time monitoring, leverages predictive analytics, and ensures cloud scalability. This solution empowers our customers to optimise processes, enhance quality, and drive efficiency.”
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