AVEVA Intros Teamwork to Empower Industrial Con nected Workers

NEWS AVEVA Intros Teamwork to Empower Industrial Connected Workers

AVEVA has announced the launch of its new AVEVA Teamwork a fully integrated cloud-based application built specifically for industrial workers to facilitate continuous learning and improvement. It is designed to connect plant workforces with core digital systems and unlock visibility into operations. Whether providing training videos, digital logbook, or answering a call for help AVEVA Teamwork will help solve many of the challenges associated with traditional training and knowledge transfer methods which can consume weeks and even months to get frontline workers up to speed on the essential skills needed to run today’s complex industrial operations.

AVEVA has partnered with Poka, the most comprehensive connected worker platform, to bring the AVEVA Teamwork application to market. It will offer the connected worker a more integrated experience within the larger AVEVA Connect, cloud platform. “Poka is excited to partner with AVEVA, a leader in industrial digital transformation with a global network of support and service partners. This partnership will help accelerate industrial workforce transformation globally which has become even more urgent as a result of constraints imposed by the pandemic, “commented Alexandre Leclerc, CEO, Co-Founder, Poka.

AVEVA Teamwork is designed to empower industrial-organizational workers to learn, solve problems, and share knowledge from their daily routines. It combines digital content, skills management, and communication features into a single, worker-centric application to support the unique needs of the plant floor. The result is a continuously updated knowledge base of best practices and training content, automatically shared with the workers who need them, across shifts and global operations.

With the AVEVA Teamwork application, plant workers will be able to use tablets to scan QR codes strategically placed throughout the plant, giving them instant access to standard work instructions, trouble-shooting solutions, equipment KPIs and more. They will also be able to post important production updates and send out calls for assistance in the form of text, photos, or videos to communicate with one another in real-time to resolve issues and identify improvements directly from their daily routines.

“AVEVA Teamwork brings yet another cloud inspired innovation to our growing software portfolio which will enable organizations to capture experienced worker knowledge and create sustainable video-based learning content, thereby reducing training time and costs for new operators by up to 50%,” commented Rashesh Mody, Senior Vice President, Monitoring And Control Business Unit, AVEVA. “Industrial workers will now have the benefit of being able to learn continuously, onthe-job, while also contributing to collective knowledge and best practices, and likewise industrial organizations also now have the knowledge and tools they need to drive continuous improvement in productivity, waste, quality, and safety.”

Intel Launches Intel NUC M15 Laptop Kit

Intel has launched the Intel NUC M15 Laptop Kit (formerly codenamed “Bishop County”). The NUC M15 brings Intel’s technical expertise to the whitebook market, with the goal of providing Intel’s channel customers with a premium, precision engineered laptop kit.

The Intel M15 Laptop Kit includes an 11th Gen Intel Core mobile processor and Intel Iris Xe graphics and is designed to exceed the stringent requirements of the new Intel Evo platform brand.

Ultimately, the Intel Evo platform brand is earned by each channel partner, but the M15 offers the right foundation for our channel partners to build an Intel EVO-qualified laptop.

The Intel M15 Laptop kit has a sleek, modern design with a premium CNC anodized aluminum chassis that measures just 14.9mm thick and weighs in at 1.65kg.

Built with an 11th generation Intel Core processor and Intel Iris Xe graphics, the NUC team has taken advantage of over 50 years of Intel innovation and expertise to create a laptop kit that makes the most of our new CPU architecture.

The Intel M15 Laptop kit is designed to deliver boundary-breaking performance for productivity, entertainment, content creation, and casual gaming.

It features amazingly responsive adaptive usages with Wake on Approach, Walk Away Lock, and No Lock on Presence.

The 73Whr battery provides all-day battery life, plus fast charging support, while Intel Wi-Fi 6 and Thunderbolt 4 provide superfast connectivity.

Channel partners can choose from three base laptop kit SKUs, each available in two colours— “shadow grey” and “midnight black”—and multiple keyboard layouts to build out their solutions.

ACCELERATING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION THROUGH THE CORNERS AHEAD CHANNEL PARTNER CHALLENGES 2021

This year’s EMEA Digital Channel Summit kicked off with experts Karsten Winther: VP Sales EMEA, Vertiv and Margarete McGrath: Chief Digital Officer EMEA, Dell.

We’re All Hoping to Hit the Digital Accelerator in 2021

Clearly, the recent past has been a tough period for everyone – you don’t need us to tell you that. However, while customer budgets have tightened, and projects have been pushed back, it’s all happening against a longer term back drop of massive investment in digital transformation. As analyst company Gartner group pointed out recently: “Top performing enterprises are accelerating digital innovation and leveraging emerging technologies to come out stronger on the other side of the COVID-19 pandemic”. Translating that into numbers, despite a global pandemic, direct digital transformation investment is still growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15.5% from 2020 to 2023 and is expected to approach $6.8 trillion. And while there has been a lot of investment in public cloud services, it isn’t necessarily to the detriment of enterprise investment. According to a recent survey from Uptime Institute, the enterprise data center is neither dead nor dying. More than half of workloads are expected to remain in on-premise data centers

in 2022 and beyond. We are also expecting strong growth in edge computing accelerated by investment in IoT and, as it ramps up, 5G. According to IDC, the worldwide Edge computing market will reach $250 billion in 2024 with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.5% over the 2019 – 2024 period. So, while the short-term story may be disruption and contraction in IT budgets, the longerterm picture is much more positive.

Maintain IT Infrastructure Resiliency Through Heeland-Toe Shifting

While it’s encouraging to know that the longer-term direction faces growth and investment in digital transformation, the short- to- mid-term (the track directly ahead of us) is obviously what we are all focused on. It would be good to think that there will be nice, long straight stretches of track to accelerate into in 2021, but as recent experience has shown, there will continue to be some chicanes and maybe even some wreckage to steer around. As IDC spending forecasts show, spending will increase in 2021, but it will take time to return to pre-covid levels and will be uneven across different industries and countries. The trick is how to maintain momentum while also tackling these obstacles. Racing drivers use the heel-andtoe technique to balance the accelerator and brake as they change down gears. Maintaining that balance between speed and control is what we are all going to have to master. Specifically, there is a balance to be struck between digital acceleration – the gas pedal if you like – and digital infrastructure resiliency – the brake which gives us control. IT Infrastructure Resiliency Needs to Be Top of Mind What exactly do we mean by ‘digital IT infrastructure resilience’? Well, there has been a lot of recent investment in specific areas of digital transformation by necessity: remote working, remote education, telemedicine, etc. But that increased reliance and focus on digital services carries with it increased responsibility and importance, both in terms of the IT equipment and the physical infrastructure (power, cooling, etc), that supports it. On the IT side, as a recent report from Interpol showed, there has been a spike in hacking and malware alongside the pandemic. In fact, cybercriminals are using information supposedly related to the pandemic to breach companies’ defences or exploiting vulnerabilities created by having more remote workers. And it’s a similar story on the facilities side. A recent report from Uptime Institute revealed that data center operators are planning to increase the amount of physical redundancy per site to protect against future disruption from not only the current pandemic, but crucially future pandemics and climate change. For, example at least one large cloud service provider is asking its colocation partners to ensure N+2 redundancy at all of their sites. That’s likely to drive continued investment in physical resiliency equipment. According to Omdia, the global UPS market will see 5% growth YoY in 2021.

Partner Opportunity

So, in 2021 there will be a number of customers looking to hit the gas pedal and accelerate digital transformation projects. But there will also be a lot of start and stop activity, and a need to make sure digital projects are secure and resilient. Customers will need guidance on how to balance digital acceleration in the right areas and make sure that digital transformation makes their business more productive. Here’s where we see three areas in which partners can differentiate themselves: • New digital tech challenging existing skill sets: partners can bridge the gap between the known and the unknown • Adding value merits revenue: partners who can add value to the customer supply chain can charge a premium price • Customisation requirements are growing: partners who can bring customisable solutions will win on simplicity and speed The continued uncertainty from the pandemic, combined with implementing advanced new digital projects, will multiply the potential risk for some customers. Given that heightened risk, they will be looking for trusted partners to guide them through – a skilled ‘pit crew’ if you like, to keep them in the race.