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Expected benefits include a step-level improvement in global service delivery, increased focus of employees on value-added initiatives and the establishment of the new ways of working through a redesigned operating model.
Working Smarter will capture current and future opportunities to enhance business management services worldwide. Services range from finance and accounting back office, information technology, and human resources to commercial back- and middle-office services. The initiative brings all worldwide locations together into a unified CEMEX experience, supported by data analytics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive technologies to enrich the employee experience.
CEMEX expects to announce additional strategic relationships in upcoming months to expand the current scope and complete the deployment of its digital strategy. The Company estimates that the combination of these next-generation service contracts and its internal delivery transformation should materially contribute towards the US$100 million annual savings goal the Company has set once implementation is complete.
About CEMEX
CEMEX (NYSE: CX) is a global construction materials company that is building a better future through sustainable products and solutions. CEMEX is committed to achieving carbon neutrality through relentless innovation and industry-leading research and development. CEMEX is at the forefront of the circular economy in the construction value chain and is pioneering ways to increase the use of waste and residues as alternative raw materials and fuels in its operations with the use of new technologies. CEMEX offers cement, ready-mix concrete, aggregates, and urbanization solutions in growing markets around the world, powered by a multinational workforce focused on providing a superior customer experience, enabled by digital technologies. For more information, please visit: www.cemex.com
About IBM
IBM is a leading global hybrid cloud and AI, and business services provider. We help clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their industries. Nearly 3,000 government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM's hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM's breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and business services deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM's legendary commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity and service. Visit www.ibm.com for more information.
About NEORIS
NEORIS is a leading global digital accelerator that co-creates disruptive solutions for companies that digitally aspire to increase their connections with customers, employees and stakeholders. The company is made of creative teams with technical experience and deep knowledge of their sectors. Headquartered in Miami, Florida, NEORIS has a network of global delivery centers, design studios, and operations in the United States, Europe, Latin America and India. More information is available at www.NEORIS.com, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
About Axians
Axians, leader in integration services around ICT for VINCI Energies Spain, has a successful 27-year track record as the leading integrator around ICT in the Spanish market and one of the 5 largest integrators worldwide. With its incorporation into the VINCI Energies Spain group, Axians plays a differential role in the Digital Transformation scenario, with unified solutions in the Energy and Industry markets and in the lines of innovation linked to IoT, Industry 4.0 and Smart Cities. Axians currently has a turnover of 2,500 million euros, more than 11,000 employees and a presence in 23 countries.
About ServiceNow
ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) is the fastest-growing enterprise cloud software company in the world above $1 billion. Founded in 2004 with the goal of making work easier for people, ServiceNow is making the world of work, work better for people. Our cloud-based platform and solutions deliver digital workflows that create great experiences and unlock productivity for more than 6,200 enterprise customers worldwide, including approximately 80% of the Fortune 500. For more information, visit www.servicenow.com
CEMEX (NYSE: CX) is a global construction materials company that is building a better future through sustainable products and solutions. CEMEX is committed to achieving carbon neutrality through relentless innovation and industry-leading research and development. CEMEX is at the forefront of the circular economy in the construction value chain and is pioneering ways to increase the use of waste and residues as alternative raw materials and fuels in its operations with the use of new technologies. CEMEX offers cement, ready-mix concrete, aggregates, and urbanization solutions in growing markets around the world, powered by a multinational workforce focused on providing a superior customer experience, enabled by digital technologies. For more information, please visit: www.cemex.com
Smart Factory solutions leverage cutting edge technologies in the fields of communication, computing, data analytics, and machine learning and evolving rapidly with advancements in these fields. This directly benefits the manufacturing business by improved up time, defect free operations, higher OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness), reduced inventory, and reduced handling cost.
This post talks about how AWS Wavelength Zone and 5G technologies brings about the next wave of evolution of Smart factories and how our premier SI partner TCS leveraged AWS Wavelength to deploy their smart factory solution for intelligent, real-time quality inspection.
The current Smart Factory solutions are comprised of many elements like sensors, vision systems, CCTV cameras, Thermal sensors, 3D rendering systems, satellite images, and hand held smart devices. These are high-speed streaming devices generating large amount of data requiring high bandwidth, low latency network and compute to handle this data. The data from these sources are quickly analyzed by collaborating AI systems, which either sends back instructions to the machines on the floor or enables analytics that helps humans to make informed decisions. Typically, this data is processed on premises and the information is transmitted over wireless technologies to enable the interconnected factories work in sync with each other and build a collaborative system.
The Manufacturing processes are complex and use different tools and methodologies to complete the operation. Every part in a finished product undergoes different stages and may even pass through different factories before it is assembled into a final product. Managing these processes require access to low latency and high bandwidth edge computing resources spread across the plants. Due to this, current implementations of Smart Factory solutions face multiple challenges:
Wavelength delivers a consistent developer experience across multiple 5G networks around the world, allowing you to build the next generation of ultra-low latency applications using familiar AWS services, APIs, and tools. Developers simply extend your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) to one or more Wavelength Zones and then use AWS resources like Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes, AWS Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (Amazon EKS), AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS CloudFormation, and AWS Auto Scaling to build, run, secure, manage, and scale their applications. Wavelength offers you the flexibility to scale up or scale down, and pay only for the resources that you use.
TCS has built a Smart Factory solution in the area of quality and safety inspection. The Quality and safety inspection use cases demand high throughput and latency requirements, to transmit large volume of video files, get them processed and respond back to quality engineers or PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers) to start or stop the assembly lines.
The current deployments rely heavily on GPU workloads inside the Plant adding costs to customers and additional risks on maintaining the workloads at plant. Now with AWS Wavelength bringing in AWS infrastructure and Services closer to the plant with ultra low latency access and higher bandwidth we tested our solutions to move the latency sensitive stack of the application from the plant locations to AWS wavelength zone. AWS Wavelength along with Mobile 5G connectivity not only provides the low latency access to Industries it also brings in the cloud model to the Edge.
The Solution captures videos streams from IP based cameras and uses RTMP protocol to transmit it over the 5G network to application servers in AWS Wavelength Zone. 5G uplink provides the necessary B/W and latency profile to transfer these video streams, which are then processed by the G4 instances deployed in the Wavelength Zone. The Video is processed frame by frame, running the machine learning inference model to identify the defective units. The processed frame along with the inferred model output is sent back to console or device from which the user is monitoring the process can take a well-informed decision. The decision module can also send a direct command from application to start or stop the assembly line or process. The response back to PLCs, or assembly line demands low latency, which is provided by the 5G network. Leveraging the combination of 5G bandwidth, Low latency and proximity of plant to AWS Wavelength zones, we moved the workloads to wavelength zones. AWS Wavelength zone at the edge enables all nearby workloads to be moved to the same zone for all plants in that area.
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