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Was looking around VVDN still and a word connection came up with Airtel which led me elsewhere, somewhere familiar, yet I must have missed this trademark name of theirs being posted or maybe it hasn't?
Apols for the indulgent long post but a few areas / sources to copy and link.
Whilst it is more an overall business / industry model / concept as below description, there are definite opportunities here imo.
TCS’ solution aids transformation in the manufacturing industry & enables manufacturers to become future-ready by building connected & collaborative ecosystems.
www.tcs.com
The future of manufacturing is neural
Inspired by the human nervous system,
Neural Manufacturing™ helps manufacturing businesses become intelligent, resilient, adaptive, and purpose-driven through connected, cognitive, and collaborative capabilities. These essential ingredients help enterprises build next-generation value chains.
Solution
The TCS Neural Manufacturing suite offers enterprises three core solutions for their transformation:
Cognitive enterprise: To build AI and prescriptive analytics capabilities across the enterprise functions, enabling autonomous behavior in products, processes, and customer engagements. These can be made possible through a neural information fabric.
Connected value chains: To bring visibility across value chain partners to drive agility and co-innovation and establish new target operating models.
Collaborative ecosystems: To design and operate purpose-centric ecosystems that create exponential business value.
The transformation to the future manufacturing enterprise is powered by data and a contemporary, scalable digital core. TCS enables this journey with a phased roadmap:
Phase 1: Neural thinking for enterprises to plan their business strategy, target operating models, and ecosystem constructs. TCS helps with an opportunity assessment and business case.
Phase 2: Neural capabilities, including a neural information fabric, to build the digital core and enable the orchestration of ecosystems through data-driven platforms.
Phase 3: To demonstrate neural behaviors, manufacturers can introduce adaptability and resilience in their ecosystem operations, thus creating a true agile enterprise with a portfolio of intelligent products and services.
Where do we fit....well, hopefully still working with TCS in the background providing Akida as part of this new roadmap of theirs.
An Aug 22 article on TCS site spells out clearly what they think of SNN.
Spiking neural networks
The building block for AI innovation
7 MINS READ
www.tcs.com
Excerpt.
What is an SNN
Spiking Neural Network: The building block for innovation
The Spiking Neural Network (SNN) is the third generation of neural network models, built with specialized network topologies that redefine the entire computational process. The spiking makes it more intelligent and energy-efficient, which is crucial for small devices to perform.
With a three-layered feedforward specialized network topology, the SNN is one of the most powerful neural networks that can process temporal data in real-time. This high computational power and advanced topology make it suitable for robotics and computer vision applications that require real-time data processing.
SNN facilitates real-time sourcing and processing of the data and is a major improvement over other neural networks, which primarily rely on frequency rather than temporal data.
SNN is one of the most powerful neural networks that can process temporal data in real-time.
The SNN spikes are computationally more advanced, and the firing activity of the neuron in the SNN architecture is not tied to static inputs but to the notion of time.
Airtel and TCS.
Around this time last year TCs and Airtel buddied up.
These solutions help manufacturers build smart, cognitive factories which mimic resilient and adaptive behaviors.
wap.business-standard.com
TCS successfully tested two use cases on Airtel’s 5G testbed – remote manufacturing operations using robotics, and vision-based quality inspection, demonstrating how TCS’ neural manufacturing solutions and 5G technology can transform plant operations, and significantly boost quality, productivity, and safety.
“We believe the future of manufacturing is neural, and have been making sustained investments in research, and innovation, and in building intellectual property. Our partnership with Airtel to deploy and validate these innovative use cases on their 5G network serves as a proof point of the transformative power of these technologies,” said Susheel Vasudevan, business group head, Manufacturing & Utilities, TCS.
These solutions help manufacturers build smart, cognitive factories which mimic resilient and adaptive behaviors. They leverage the ultra-reliable low latency communication, enhanced bandwidth, and high device density characteristics of 5G networks and the combinatorial power of emerging technologies like AI/ML, computer vision, industrial robotics and AR/VR to enable autonomous actions on the shopfloor.
ARC Advisory article on TCS model.
ARC Advisory Group recently met with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to discuss its new family of services for process manufacturers called “Neural Manufacturing for Process.”
www.arcweb.com
How Neural Manufacturing for Process Industries Fosters Intelligent Business Process Automation
Conclusion
Technology adoption has dramatically increased competitive pressures and placed intense demands on the organization to become intelligent, agile, and insight driven. The corresponding digitalization of businesses involves products, customer engagement, distribution channels, enterprise core systems, and nearly all business processes. The future for process manufacturing enterprises and their ecosystems will be connected, cognitive, and collaborative to demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and purpose-driven behaviors. Digital transformation addresses the business processes retarding enterprise growth by leveraging technology. History shows that change is difficult for many companies – particularly process industries with hard, complex, and big assets. They often have difficulty with industry dynamics driven by software technology adoption.
With many good case stories, TCS has successfully demonstrated the benefits of neural ecosystems in the process industries. Several process manufacturing companies have implemented IIoT, cloud, analytics, and augmented reality to achieve end-to-end visibility, quality, and productivity improvements during the manufacturing process. Additionally, TCS is actively participating in developing data monetization approaches for manufacturing companies. The case studies show that companies can start with manageable projects to digitally transform aspects of their businesses and then build on that success.
TCS is in an interesting position to help manufacturing clients with technology-driven business improvements due to its technical breadth across the business spectrum, from shop floor to C-suite. This allows TCS to pull experienced resources to address its clients’ specifics needs.