When asking about ‘Industry 4.0’ in the manufacturing or industrial control sectors typically responses fall into one of two categories. Some haven’t yet spent much time exploring the concept are likely to dismiss the term as Marketing hype, or a gross over-simplification like ‘Web 2.0’. But companies who have investigated the principles behind a smart factory see this trend as an opportunity to significantly in...

For over 5 years now Wind River has been exposed to OpenStack, and Ron Breault believes he has grown blasé to the Live Migration feature. It just does what it is supposed to and does it well. Guest blog by Ron Breault.

People often ask; “Why should we chose Wind River’s Titanium Cloud NFV software platform over a ‘free’, open source alternative”?  And Ron Breault’s reply sounds like: “Continuous innovation and reduced operational costs.” Guest blog by Ron Breault.

Today’s industrial manufacturing cell can include several robot arms, some cameras, position sensors, and some controllers connected together in a network. The cameras and sensors send data to the controllers. The controllers send commands to the robot arms.  What happens when a command from the controller arrives at the robot arm a tenth of a second late?   Guest blog by Ka Kay Achacoso.

Virtualisation can bring a wide variety of benefits to industrial control applications without compromising on the level of security delivered by traditional physical infrastructure, as long as you have selected the right software platform. Guest blog by Charlie Ashton.

The general availability milestone for the latest release of the Wind River Titanium Cloud product family has been achieved. Guest blog by Ron Breault.

Most people have read the news this week about Intel’s announcement of the Intel Xeon Scalable platform, the highest-performance, most versatile data centre platform ever. The new platform brings massive advantages to customers such as cloud and communications service providers, enterprises, high-performance computing providers and artificial intelligence companies. Guest blog by Charlie Ashton.

The Future of Humanity Institute recently published the results of its survey of over 350 industry and academic Artificial Intelligence (AI) experts from around the globe in an effort to answer this question. They also tackled a more vexing one: When will machines exceed human performance for all tasks? According to those experts we have decades. Guest blogger Mychal McCabe explains.

The phrase ‘springtime in Paris’ can result in a lot of thought processes, however, if you’re a hotshot engineer working on the OPNFV project, it’s a vision of long days and late nights huddled over racks of hot, noisy servers while debugging complex interoperability problems. Guest blog by Charlie Ashton.

When it comes to building an IoT business, there are many challenges: new business models, new support models, technical hurdles, and security to name a few. To oversimplify the core premise of IoT, it is to connect all the ‘things’ in our lives to make it better. Guest blog by Tom Gibbings.

With the rapid population growth in today’s urban areas, it is no surprise that environmental pollution is increasing at staggering rates, which also stresses city infrastructure and endangering health of citizens in communities around the globe. Guest blog by Amanda Lowe.

Telco edge applications bring new revenue opportunities, and Telecom service providers worldwide are increasingly viewing applications hosted at the network edge as compelling business opportunities. Guest blog by Charlie Ashton.

Placing an increased pressure on supplier to deliver an aircraft with far greater capabilities while complying with a growing demand for safety certification, is the growing demand for highly complex aircraft systems, as most advanced cockpits require software that is considered safety-critical. Guest blog by Stephen Olsen.

This year is a banner year for The Open Group Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) Consortium. It is now crossing its seventh anniversary and has completed the technical and business documents that will drive new FACE procurements with enduring efficiencies for generations of military aircraft.  Guest blog by Chip Downing.

The allure of IoT in many situations starts with gathering data to drive actionable insights. Cutting through all the jargon and complexity of IoT, the business justification of an IoT project is derived from two business needs: 1) reducing costs and 2) innovative new business models.  Guest blog by Tom Gibbings.

For the telecom industry May and June are intense trade show months. Sometimes missing just two or three that would have been relevant, can’t be helped if you do not have unlimited bandwidth. Wind River over the past few weeks has sent teams over to NFV World Congress, OpenStack Summit, DellEMC World, Big Communications Event, Network Virtualisation and SDN Europe, Canadian Telecom Summit, Interop Tokyo and OPNFV Summit. Guest blog by Cha...

The leading manufacturer of water pumps for fire trucks, Waterous, has recruited Wind River and Intel to help develop Tellurus, the first digital touch-screen control panel for its advanced water and foam pumps. Guest blog by Keith Shea. 

A major industry trend in the telecom industry and beyond is IoT (The Internet of Things). It is generally agreed there is no shortage of potential on many different fronts. IoT brings the potential for businesses to be much more efficient due to the ability to analyse data that was previously locked within non-IoT enabled equipment. Guest blog by Jeff Gowan.

As a member of Canada’s CENGN (Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks) consortium, Wind River will now be working with a set of talented individuals who are committed to keeping Canada’s place on the map as a technology and innovation power house. Guest blog by Ron Breault.

Last week was the Aviation Electronics Europe 2017 conference, in which Wind River attended. The conference, held in Munich for the third consecutive year, proved to be just as popular, which maybe down to a popular location due to its excellent transport links, Bavarian cuisine, and of course weissbier. Guest blog by Paul Parkinson.