The challange was to build first smart city in India?

In the product assembly operation involving people in the factory production line, the general actions usually include fixed operation procedures such as: reaching out, grasping, moving objects, assembling. After the operator works for a long time or is disturbed, the assembly action will be omitted and it might cause misoperation. It's also necessary to identify the problems existing in the action through action analysis so that the sequence and method of the action can be improved.

At present, the field of automotive intelligent manufacturing is facing two major difficulties and pain points:First, the production line equipment is prone to failure and has a serious impact. Once the current production line equipment is shut down due to a fault, it will affect the production rhythm and reduce the output, or cause production stoppage in the worst case, causing huge losses to the manufacturer. Monitoring the performance status of production equipment and predicting faults is the key to ensuring the reliability of equipment to achieve normal production and operation.Second, it is difficult to realize automatic and flexible production changeover for traditional single-production lines. The traditional multi-variety manufacturing needs to build a separate line, the cost of production line construction is high, and the new product launch cycle is long, and it is increasingly difficult to adapt to the requirements of multi-variety, variable batch, equal emphasis on research and production, and mixed-line production mode.

Crank Software wanted a high-performance static application security testing (SAST) tool to advance the integrity of its code. It was critical that they found a solution that was not just technically sophisticated, but one that could be easily integrated into their cultural, technical ecosystem, and DevSecOps workflow. This includes a vigilant team of around 40 developers, including junior coders who employ a “test early and often” mentality and operate with a mindset of delivering strong, reliable, and secure code.

Standard Industries, a global industrial company with over 15,000 employees across 184 locations in 80 countries, was facing significant challenges in streamlining communications and collaboration. The company was struggling with the simple task of scheduling a senior leadership meeting, which required several executive assistants to coordinate over the phone to determine availability. Furthermore, the company was dealing with over 28 active directory environments and four different mail and collaboration platforms across the organization. The need for a single, unified collaboration tool that could be used across all their locations on four continents was evident.

A global automotive component manufacturer was facing a significant challenge in maintaining high First Pass Yield (FPY) rates in their production lines. Despite having real-time monitoring displays and an in-house analytical tool, the company was struggling with functional test failures that led to FPY rates dropping below 90%. The company spent approximately six months trying to identify the root cause of the issue, which turned out to be a faulty fixture in the functional test systems. This lengthy process involved extensive manual data aggregation and transformation, and required the production line to be shut down for troubleshooting. Even after identifying the issue, the company had to perform monthly maintenance on all fixtures in the functional tester lines to mitigate the FPY loss.

North Texas Pressure Vessels, Inc. (NTPV) was facing a significant challenge with their inventory management. The company had no inventory management system in place, leading to inaccurate values and quantities of inventory. There were no item numbers, and purchasing relied on multiple spreadsheets to determine if there was enough inventory on hand for the production schedule. Inventory costs were not accurate and not up to date, which led to difficulties in pricing jobs accurately due to the lack of true costing of the inventory. The company's existing system, Sage 50, did not have the necessary functionality. Furthermore, the cost of processing Purchase Orders was extremely high, indicating inefficiencies in the purchasing activities.

The company faced currency issues around conversion and consolidation, processing issues due to everything taking place outside the system, and a complete lack of mobile functionality. Hallstar also needed the ability to tap into advanced analytics and web-based services, integrate with third-party packages, and ultimately remove siloes from its workflows. 

New Ocean needed a platform that would enable them to visually design and code their Insight Engine, which all of their data streams or inputs feed into. The Insight Engine determines a number of things including whether an activity or challenge is complete or rewards have been met. Messaging is created for chronic condition cases, reminding users to do things with pop-up messages. Tracking is set up for monitoring how users are doing against goals, such as running three days a week for four weeks, to satisfy rewards. The rewards depend on the company and there are three basic reward types that are built into the application. These include dollars, badges, or points. New Ocean wanted to house downstream business logic in a single system and they decided to look into a rules engine.

A Minnesota casino wanted to replace their player’s club reward card printers. The company’s existing printers required employees to change the card stock type each time a new rewards-level card needed to be printed. Additionally, the printers were aging and continually breaking down, and the casino wanted to streamline its card issuance process and not be tied to using custom printer software.

Wintrust Financial Corporation, a financial holding company with over $45 billion in assets, was seeking to enhance their data and voice networks to support their continuing growth. The company was looking for a more effective, stable network that could support its operations and pave the way for future expansion. As the company grew, officials wanted to ensure stable and consistent network performance and prevent any points of failure. The challenge was to find a solution that would provide highly secure, scalable, and reliable connectivity, while also supporting the company's expanding business.

MindMax, a company that partners with universities to increase enrollment, particularly among continuing education and adult learners, faced a significant challenge in scaling its customer base. The company's legacy analytics and BI solution required manual extraction of data from disparate sources, including Salesforce, Google Analytics, Facebook Ads, LinkedIn, and Marketing Automation systems. This process was time-consuming and inefficient, making it difficult to create meaningful reports and dashboards that incorporated data from all these different sources. The company's VP of Technology, Brian DiScipio, and Senior Business Analyst, Kiersten Warendorf, recognized the need for a cleaner, faster way to empower their customers with data-driven insights. They knew that the full automation of BI and ETL through the creation of a modern data pipeline and stack was crucial for the company's growth.

China Railway Corporation, the world's leading railway network, faced significant challenges due to its large business scale. The company's IT infrastructure was under pressure to deliver higher performance, stability, safety, usability, and extensibility. The company's IT development journey moved from mainframe computers to minicomputers, and then to the x86-based OpenStack platform. However, this transition presented several challenges. The traditional project-driven IT infrastructure construction mode was resource-intensive and complex. The migration of a large amount of data and applications from the minicomputer system to an open source environment with x86 servers was problematic. The OpenStack modules were loosely coupled and unstable, and there were bottlenecks in large-scale cluster deployment. Additionally, there was a shortage of OpenStack technical experts and talent, which limited early operation and management and slowed the development of tools for daily automatic operation.

Vasiliy Karpitski and Alexei Dulub, entrepreneurs and blockchain enthusiasts, identified a significant challenge in the rapidly growing NFT market. The NFT market, which hit $17.6 billion in sales in 2021, has attracted a large number of creators, businesses, and investors. However, the rapid growth of the market has also led to an increase in scams and fraudulent activities such as blacklists, wash trades, and duplicates. This has made it difficult for NFT buyers, creators, and businesses to make quality investment decisions and avoid risks. To address this challenge, the entrepreneurs decided to develop a smart solution that would help NFT investors make informed decisions by providing them with actionable data on NFT collectibles, their provenance, and ownership.

Kaunas, the second-largest city in Lithuania, is strategically located in the center of Europe, making it a crucial hub for logistics, economic processes, and innovation flows. Despite its small population of around 400,000, the city's location makes it significant for all of Europe. However, Kaunas faces several challenges. It has a growing elderly population, a deteriorating infrastructure, and a rapid increase in car numbers. Environmental issues such as global warming, air pollution, and water supply are also pressing concerns. The city's heating system, which serves nearly 90% of residents, faces problems with uninterrupted water supply and power consumption. Kauno energija, a company that has been operating in Lithuania since 1963, has been instrumental in improving community services and contributing to cost savings from the city budget. However, the need to integrate an IoT network to address these challenges is evident.

Teradata Corporation, a leading analytic data solutions company, was facing a significant challenge. The company had developed and supported its own version of UNIX, called “MP-RAS,” to meet the scalability, security, and flexibility demands of its customers. However, maintaining security and function updates for MP-RAS was becoming increasingly complex and problematic. Furthermore, Teradata's customers were concerned about speed and staying up-to-date, which led to the company constantly trying to push performance. The complexity of managing, supporting, and driving MP-RAS was escalating, and Teradata needed a more efficient solution to meet its customers' needs.

La Poste, France’s largest mail delivery provider, was facing challenges with its delivery process. The company, which employs over 90,000 mail and parcel carriers, is responsible for delivering 23 billion items annually, making operational efficiency a top priority. The carriers relied on low-end smartphones with an Android application integrated with open-source barcode scanning software for proof of delivery, track and trace, and other workflows. However, the scanning speed and precision were not up to the mark, leading to delivery errors. Misdelivered mail or parcels not only cost the company time and money but also affected its reputation. La Poste wanted to compare the performance of smartphones using open source scanning against those using proprietary software across a wide variety of devices, under a range of challenging real-world conditions.

The X Company, a national network of social clubs and private residences, was facing a significant challenge in integrating disparate access systems without compromising the user experience. The existing access control systems were primarily focused on individual unit doors and lacked the necessary security features for busy lobby and amenity spaces. The challenge was to create a fully integrated digital access control platform that could streamline and improve interactions between tenants, the physical building, and ownership.

Metro Retail Stores Group, a leading operator of department stores and hypermarkets in the Visayas region, in the Philippines, was facing several challenges with its existing Oracle Retail Applications and EBS. The applications, which were deployed on cloud services such as Oracle Linux, IBM, and AWS cloud, lacked high availability, affecting the operational performance. The system also struggled to scale and handle traffic spikes and loads. The client needed to complete the migration before the expiration of on-premises licenses. The on-premises infrastructure lacked robust security, and the management of cost and resources was ineffective. Additionally, the client needed to upgrade the OS, database, and server versions along with the migration.

Our client, a South African company dealing with the settlement of various securities, had invested in an on-premises data lake as a single, reliable source for data-driven decision making. Despite significant investment, the client was unable to achieve the desired agility and scalability. The data lake’s infrastructure presented several challenges including inability to scale, high infrastructure and maintenance costs, and lack of cloud-based computing. Its monolithic architecture was unable to handle the client’s increasing data storage and analytics needs. The absence of cloud-based services resulted in underutilization of the data lake by business users. It was inaccessible by many, lacked real-time services, and was regarded as an unreliable source, leading to significant revenue leakages.

The Fortune 50 company, one of the largest technology corporations in the world, was seeking to develop a new core customer 360 record system. This system was intended to offer a product recommendation system and entity resolution feature. The goal was to create accurate customer profiles that displayed hierarchical relationships, thereby delivering an exceptional customer experience when customers interacted with their centralized database for various functions such as purchasing products or requesting services. The company also desired a system that was scalable and more efficient than their previous one. This operational function for their customer 360 was deemed critical to their competitive advantage in the market. The system was to consist of a centralized data source that would serve as the core of the customer data platform.

Beko wanted to raise awareness of the new refrigerator and fridge freezer range Beko EverFresh+ and increase its sales with least 15%. But wait!What’s EverFresh+?A humidity-controlled compartment that can keep fruit andvegetables fresh for up to 30 days.What for Beko was a core name for years of research, tests, and inspiration, for the consumers was only another engineering gimmick they didn’t understand.How to communicate this impressive innovation to the shopper in a compelling way, in a few seconds? In a market oversaturated by expressions such as “true digital inverter”?

Yet one such installation contractor found its progress grinding to a halt around a particularly thorny problem with an MPOdeployment. The company was in the midst of an installation comprised of two MPO fiber cassettes and a pre-tested and certified MPO trunk cable. And it wasn't going well.The manufacturer of the equipment they were using required that pass-fail limits be derived from the company's link loss calculator and then input into test tools such as a Fluke Networks DTX CableAnalyzer as a custom limit. And these custom limits are tight; stricter even than the traditional TIA-568-C industry standard. Total budgets of only 1.40 dB are common for two cassette links. And unfortunately, the installation contractor was struggling to get under this budget for one portion of a particular job.The installers repeatedly examined, cleaned, and retested the fibers without being able to solve the issue. As a result, the profitability for that particular job was vanishing with each additional hour of testing, driving the company to reach out to its distributor, which in turn put in a call to Fluke Networks.

In 2015, Metroline, one of London’s largest bus companies, began using GreenRoad in four depots to supplement another telematics system used elsewhere in the business. By 2020, Metroline selected GreenRoad for its entire fleet of buses in London. The challenge was to ensure that the drivers could easily understand their safe driving scores, fostering a sense of fairness and encouraging a 'friendly competition' around safety. The trade unions needed to understand that the system actually empowered their drivers. The challenge also involved getting extensive buy-in, not only from the drivers and operational managers, but importantly also from the unions and all other departments within the company.

Icomera, a leading provider of integrated connectivity solutions for public transport, aimed to launch the world’s first rail-certified 5G mobile connectivity and applications router, the Icomera X5. The challenge was to find a solution that would provide reliable 4G LTE fallback where 5G networks were not yet available. The solution also needed to function across Icomera’s multiple operating regions. The goal was to create a router that could deliver the fastest, most reliable connection possible for rail operators and passengers, supporting multiple resource-intensive systems simultaneously.

Lindhurst Engineering  have a well established site with a mixture of steel fabrication manufacturing equipment, overhead cranes and welding bays. They were particularly interested in resource efficiency improvements and understanding their energy profile in order to reduce running costs and generally make the factory run more efficiently and also make it sustainable.

The case study revolves around an international beverage distributor that delivers soft drinks to over 700,000 vending machines in one of its territories. The company was facing challenges in optimizing its logistics network, which if improved, could lead to increased revenue, decreased fuel costs, and a reduced carbon footprint. The organization was also struggling with its data architecture, which was not supporting fast and efficient daily routing computations. The need for a solution that could enhance their delivery operations and support faster, more efficient daily routing computation was evident.

BBVA, a Spain-based financial institution with over €662 billion in assets and 83 million customers across more than 30 countries, relies on complex calculations for risk analysis and pricing of financial products. Post the 2008 Financial Crisis, regulations necessitated banks to evaluate credit risk and stress-test financial scenarios. Typically, this risk analysis is performed using Monte Carlo simulations, a highly complex, expensive, and time-consuming process that must account for all possible credit default scenarios. Any enhancement in the performance of these simulations would directly affect the daily operational costs, financial product pricing, and risk analysis.

Agile Talent, a company specializing in providing talent solutions, was facing a significant challenge in managing and recording critical information from their numerous daily meetings. The back-and-forth conversations, clarifications, and note-taking during these meetings were proving to be time-consuming and inefficient. The manual note-taking process was not only overwhelming but also led to the loss of crucial information. This loss of data was impacting their business productivity, causing delays in processes, and resulting in wasted time. The company was in dire need of a solution that could efficiently record and manage the information from their meetings without the need for manual intervention.

Akatia Technologies, a company specializing in warehouse management software, was facing a significant challenge in optimizing and streamlining their sales process. The primary issue was the time-consuming method of transcribing client conversations, a critical aspect of their sales process. The team needed to extract accurate information from these transcriptions to gain insights into the challenges they were facing and discuss new requirements with their customers. However, their existing method of documenting and sharing these conversations with clients was proving to be inefficient and cumbersome. As the CEO of Akatia Technologies, Mr. Abdellah Bellahssan, explained, the process of documenting the conversations and sharing them with the customers was taking too much time, causing a bottleneck in their sales process.