Introduction Supercomputing, or high-performance computing (HPC), enables scientists and engineers to push the edge of what is possible for science and innovation. Using HPC-based modelling and simulation, they can study […]

Introduction Since the beginning of process operations, maintenance has been the key to survival. Whenever we look into historical descriptions of early operations, there is a workshop not far from […]

  When the term blockchain is used, almost everyone thinks of Bitcoin. But then, cryptocurrency is only one of the many possible applications of this technology: blockchains are decentralized digital […]

For many, an algorithm implies a set of rules based objectively on empirical evidence or data. It also suggests a system that is highly complex1. However, “complexity” is a relative […]

This column has dealt with data in many different aspects over the last half year. Data are being generated out of various sources within the overall production process of a […]

HAL 9000 For many of us, the culmination of Artificial Intelligence application is science fiction. A computer with the ability to self-reflect and analyse its failures and take action to […]

In the history of digitalization, we have seen several use-cases and development steps becoming more and more relevant today. Even though they have been around for more than 20 years […]

Digitalisation is more than simply replacing paper documents with tablets. Leveraging the full potential of digitalisation empowers completely new workflows in process plants today. And the expectations could not be […]

Availability of data or the generation of data is in today’s sugar factories no problem at all. An ever-increasing pool of devices, systems and processes provides data that, in many […]