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How Delphi Automotive transformed its business model with connected-car services 

Over the past year on this blog, my team and I have talked a lot about the exciting opportunities today’s technology innovations are creating in the manufacturing world—the opportunities for manufacturers to improve operations, to reinvent productivity, to more quickly bring products to market, and even to completely transform business models.

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ABB and Microsoft put electric cars on a cloud 

The electric vehicle (EV) market is growing rapidly. Yet worldwide there are currently just 106,000 public EV charging stations for more than 1 million EVs. As the industry powers up to meet demand, global revenue from EV charging services is projected to grow from $152.6 million last year to $2.9 billion by 2023, according to Navigant Research. This represents a huge opportunity for companies to capture that revenue through new products, improved scalability and reduced maintenance costs.

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Extracting value from industrial IoT using a higher level of thinking 

I have discussed before that in order to talk about the value of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) in manufacturing, we need to have a holistic view that includes the Industrial Internet of Things, the Internet of People and the Internet of Services (IIoT/P/S). I was recently asked by a client about the role of IIoT in the context of digital transformation of the enterprise.

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The future of design engineering 

Just as today’s technology innovations are helping transform products into a new world of connected solutions, they are also ushering in a new era of how we design. Simon Floyd explains how Microsoft HoloLens is unlocking new possibilities in design engineering

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A new way of thinking 

Microsoft’s Enrique Andaluz discusses how manufacturers today are transitioning from offering products to offering those products as digital services.