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UV Curing System Market Research Report by Type (Conveyor curing, Flood curing, and Hand-held curing), Technology, Pressure, Application, End-User Industry, Region (Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, Middle East & Africa) - Global Forecast to 2027 - Cumulative Impact of COVID-19

New York, June 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "UV Curing System Market Research Report by Type, Technology, Pressure, Application, End-User Industry, Region - Global Forecast to 2027 - Cumulative Impact of COVID-19" - https://www.reportlinker.com/p06287143/?utm_source=GNW

The Global UV Curing System Market size was estimated at USD 3,291.23 million in 2021 and expected to reach USD 3,714.81 million in 2022, and is projected to grow at a CAGR 13.12% to reach USD 6,897.77 million by 2027.

Market Statistics:The report provides market sizing and forecast across five major currencies - USD, EUR, JPY, GBP, AUD, CAD, and CHF. It helps organization leaders make better decisions when currency exchange data is readily available. In this report, the years 2019 and 2020 are considered historical years, 2021 as the base year, 2022 as the estimated year, and years from 2023 to 2027 are considered the forecast period.

Market Segmentation & Coverage:This research report categorizes the UV Curing System to forecast the revenues and analyze the trends in each of the following sub-markets:

Based on Type, the market was studied across Conveyor curing, Flood curing, Hand-held curing, and Spot curing.

Based on Technology, the market was studied across Conventional UV, Others, and UV LED.

Based on Pressure, the market was studied across High, Low, and Medium.

Based on Application, the market was studied across Bonding & Assembling, Coating & Finishing, Disinfection, Others, and Printing.

Based on End-User Industry, the market was studied across Aerospace & Defense, Agriculture & Gardening, Automotive & Transportation, Construction & Architectural, Medical, Others, and Semiconductor & Electronics.

Based on Region, the market was studied across Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, Middle East & Africa. The Americas is further studied across Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and United States. The United States is further studied across California, Florida, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. The Asia-Pacific is further studied across Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand. The Europe, Middle East & Africa is further studied across France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, United Arab Emirates, and United Kingdom.

Cumulative Impact of COVID-19:COVID-19 is an incomparable global public health emergency that has affected almost every industry, and the long-term effects are projected to impact the industry growth during the forecast period. Our ongoing research amplifies our research framework to ensure the inclusion of underlying COVID-19 issues and potential paths forward. The report delivers insights on COVID-19 considering the changes in consumer behavior and demand, purchasing patterns, re-routing of the supply chain, dynamics of current market forces, and the significant interventions of governments. The updated study provides insights, analysis, estimations, and forecasts, considering the COVID-19 impact on the market.

Cumulative Impact of 2022 Russia Ukraine Conflict:We continuously monitor and update reports on political and economic uncertainty due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Negative impacts are significantly foreseen globally, especially across Eastern Europe, European Union, Eastern & Central Asia, and the United States. This contention has severely affected lives and livelihoods and represents far-reaching disruptions in trade dynamics. The potential effects of ongoing war and uncertainty in Eastern Europe are expected to have an adverse impact on the world economy, with especially long-term harsh effects on Russia.This report uncovers the impact of demand & supply, pricing variants, strategic uptake of vendors, and recommendations for UV Curing System market considering the current update on the conflict and its global response.

Competitive Strategic Window:The Competitive Strategic Window analyses the competitive landscape in terms of markets, applications, and geographies to help the vendor define an alignment or fit between their capabilities and opportunities for future growth prospects. It describes the optimal or favorable fit for the vendors to adopt successive merger and acquisition strategies, geography expansion, research & development, and new product introduction strategies to execute further business expansion and growth during a forecast period.

FPNV Positioning Matrix:The FPNV Positioning Matrix evaluates and categorizes the vendors in the UV Curing System Market based on Business Strategy (Business Growth, Industry Coverage, Financial Viability, and Channel Support) and Product Satisfaction (Value for Money, Ease of Use, Product Features, and Customer Support) that aids businesses in better decision making and understanding the competitive landscape.

Market Share Analysis:The Market Share Analysis offers the analysis of vendors considering their contribution to the overall market. It provides the idea of its revenue generation into the overall market compared to other vendors in the space. It provides insights into how vendors are performing in terms of revenue generation and customer base compared to others. Knowing market share offers an idea of the size and competitiveness of the vendors for the base year. It reveals the market characteristics in terms of accumulation, fragmentation, dominance, and amalgamation traits.

Competitive Scenario:The Competitive Scenario provides an outlook analysis of the various business growth strategies adopted by the vendors. The news covered in this section deliver valuable thoughts at the different stage while keeping up-to-date with the business and engage stakeholders in the economic debate. The competitive scenario represents press releases or news of the companies categorized into Merger & Acquisition, Agreement, Collaboration, & Partnership, New Product Launch & Enhancement, Investment & Funding, and Award, Recognition, & Expansion. All the news collected help vendor to understand the gaps in the marketplace and competitors strength and weakness thereby, providing insights to enhance product and service.

Company Usability Profiles:The report profoundly explores the recent significant developments by the leading vendors and innovation profiles in the Global UV Curing System Market, including Argus Control Systems Limited, AUVCURE Suzhou Precision Co. Ltd., DDU Enterprises, Inc., DPL Industri A/S Denmark, Dymax Corporation, Excelitas Technologies Corporation, GEW (EC) Limited, HANOVIA Specialty Lighting LLC, Life Care Equipments Private Limited, Miltec UV, Nordson Corporation, Omron Corporation, Panasonic Corporation, Phoseon Technology, ProPhotonix Limited, Suba Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Thermal Innovations Corporation, UV III Systems Inc., UV-Technik International Ltd., and UVFAB Systems, Inc..

The report provides insights on the following pointers:1. Market Penetration: Provides comprehensive information on the market offered by the key players2. Market Development: Provides in-depth information about lucrative emerging markets and analyze penetration across mature segments of the markets3. Market Diversification: Provides detailed information about new product launches, untapped geographies, recent developments, and investments4. Competitive Assessment & Intelligence: Provides an exhaustive assessment of market shares, strategies, products, certification, regulatory approvals, patent landscape, and manufacturing capabilities of the leading players5. Product Development & Innovation: Provides intelligent insights on future technologies, R&D activities, and breakthrough product developments

The report answers questions such as:1. What is the market size and forecast of the Global UV Curing System Market?2. What are the inhibiting factors and impact of COVID-19 shaping the Global UV Curing System Market during the forecast period?3. Which are the products/segments/applications/areas to invest in over the forecast period in the Global UV Curing System Market?4. What is the competitive strategic window for opportunities in the Global UV Curing System Market?5. What are the technology trends and regulatory frameworks in the Global UV Curing System Market?6. What is the market share of the leading vendors in the Global UV Curing System Market?7. What modes and strategic moves are considered suitable for entering the Global UV Curing System Market?Read the full report: https://www.reportlinker.com/p06287143/?utm_source=GNW

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Research project Robot in the Cloud between BMW Group and Technical University of Munich

Autonomous, connected and intelligent: As part of the two-year, 1.2-million-euro Robot in the Cloud research project funded by the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, the BMW Group is exploring how self-driving logistics vehicles can be used in a production setting at its component plant in Landshut in Lower Bavaria, in conjunction with the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and with the support of several partner companies. What is unique about this is that the complex calculations required for autonomous logistics runs do not take place in the vehicles themselves, but in a data cloud specially set up for this purpose.

The research project was launched in 2021 at the initiative of the BMW Groups technology and logistics development team. Following preliminary theoretical work and initial tests under laboratory conditions on the TUM campus in Garching, field testing is now underway at BMW Group Plant Landshut. With this pilot project, BMW Group Plant Landshut is setting a new benchmark for the intelligent, connected factory. The increasing digitalisation of production also includes logistics flows, explains site manager Dr. Stefan Kasperowski. Behind the project is the aim of fully connected production, in which autonomous transport systems, logistics robots and mobile devices seamlessly communicate with one another and with the control system.

Specifically, the Robot in the Cloud research project uses self-driving forklift trucks for loading and unloading trucks and for managing a block storage facility at the BMW Group Plant Landshut supply centre. Cameras integrated into the forklifts serve as the basis for calculating autonomous runs. They simultaneously calculate driving movements and determine coordinates with millimetre precision, explains Ludwig Huber, responsible for integration at Plant Landshut. The calculations are outsourced to a high-performance data cloud using 5G technology. This means complex processors and the corresponding hardware no longer have to be installed in the vehicles themselves. Optimal control of forklifts by the cloud reduces downtimes for logistics vehicles and boosts the performance and efficiency of the entire logistics system.

5G wireless technology plays a key role in the use of the cloud-based logistics solution at Plant Landshuts supply centre. The new mobile telecommunications standard allows large data volumes to be transferred within a very short time. 5G enables real-time connectivity between machinery and equipment. 5G, the fifth generation of mobile communications, is more than just an incremental improvement in existing standards. In addition to significantly higher data rates, it also enables billions of machines to be connected and transmit data in near real time. The Robot in the Cloud project provides an impressive demonstration of possible 5G applications in the context of Industry 4.0, according to Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs Hubert Aiwanger.

The research consortium is made up of three further Bavarian companies, as well as representatives of the BMW Group: congiv GmbH from Munich is installing the 5G network at BMW Group Plant Landshut and provides the cloud solution. KS Control GmbH from Mintraching, outside of Regensburg, supplies the self-driving forklift trucks. Scientific monitoring for the project is provided by the Technical University of Munich.

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Intelligent connected factory with 5G technology: Autonomous logistics at BMW Group Plant Landshut calculates data in the cloud - Automotive World

With the global smart cities market forecasted to reach 2.9 trillion by 2026, the race is already on to deliver smarter, better places that improve the quality of life for all. As an industry, by thinking about people and planet-positive design we can work together to truly make a difference.

The digital revolution is at the core of this, influencing the way cities and public spaces are conceived in two main ways. First through the rise of data-based, decision making, the management or design and second through the extensive and rapid deployment of digital infrastructure in the urban environment. Make no mistake, this requires significant investment, however, the results can be game-changing.

From digital wayfinding, ubiquitous high-speed networks, electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, solar-powered bin compactors and phone chargers to noise and air quality detectors, early warning signal systems, apps improving medical services, and sensors embedded in the pavement that manage traffic and street lighting or advanced metering technology to manage utilities, all future buildings and infrastructure will communicate or collaborate with each other.

This can provide more effective energy usage, seamless mobility and an enhanced user experience which we are already seeing through apps like sesame, rolled out by London landlord GPE which can be scaled up to a neighbourhood or city level.

Other uses of technology in smart cities include adapting under-utilised buildings into drone ports in order to reduce congestion, optimise item deliveries and reduce pollution. Indeed, the worlds first drone port known as Air One recently opened its doors in Coventry, paving the way for future growth in this area.

However, smart cities go beyond connectivity, data, and utilities. They extend to the aggregation of our collective social experience. Just as smart cities are more than buildings with sensors and camera-enabled security, so too are digital twins more than a virtual reproduction of a building or a railway line. With digital twins we can create virtual replicas of entire neighbourhoods and cities, feed into them real-time data and use machine learning and reasoning to help decision-making.

Essentially, this digital duplicate acts as a crystal ball and allows us to create simulations that can predict how different interventions will perform and suggest how the built environment can have a more positive impact on our people and planet. This is why at CRTKL, we have committed to utilising building simulations on 50% of our projects by the end of the year.

While the real-time data collected from sensors and the tracking of our physical infrastructure via digital twin technology is critical to the operations of a city, for these experiences to be meaningful to the people that inhabit them, personal devices need to form part of the digital ecosystem too.

There is, however, a social aspect to big data that remains largely unresolved. The urban data that smart cities depend on for their smooth running and infrastructure development raises concerns about data privacy, collection, and ownership, which need to be addressed. A solution may see originated data controlled by an independent entity in charge of balancing the interest of personal privacy, public interest, and innovation.

By leveraging this technology, cities can become smarter about their delivery of urban and public services and derive new environmental and economic gains. However, while people, sensors and assets all contribute to the data collection that informs and drives the promise of smart cities, there is no single source of all the elements that contribute to this idea of Society as a Platform. Hence the need for greater, more innovative collaboration between architects, investors, developers and local authorities that can connect the dots.

The Internet of Things (IoT) will not only connect devices, but also people and communities. If connected properly, citizens, enterprises, and local authorities become more agile and can support the progress toward reaching the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Moreover, open urban data accessible in real-time fosters citizen engagement and promote inclusion and equality.

By applying a digital overlay to the human experience, we create cities smart enough to sustain and heal themselves places that are resilient and future-ready. As I write this piece, leading think tank, ThoughtLab has just announced it is forming a coalition of mixed stakeholders to create a study of 200 cities that will explore their strategies and plans for becoming future-ready. It is exactly this type of cross-sector collaboration whether you are an urban designer, investor, developer, academic or government that is required to pave the way for smart city success. There is no denying cities of the future will be smarter, the question now though is, can we make them more human and sustainable too?

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Welcome to the long and hot summer of 2022. Hopefully workloads will lighten a bit, COVID-19 caseloads will begin to fall, and youll get a bit of beach time (or couch time) to catch up on your reading. If youre into tech, theres a wide selection of new titles to choose from, including new books on the metaverse, the future of mobility, and Silicon Valleys role in addressing the Digital Divide.

Here are Fast Companys picks of the 2022 tech titles that are perfect for your reading enjoyment this summer.

Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth MakingBy Tony Fadell, published May 3, 2022Tony Fadell was part of the team at General Magic that envisioned and built the 90s precursor to the smartphone. He later led the teams at Apple that created the iPod and the iPhoneboth of which ushered in major shifts in the way we entertain ourselves and organize our information. Build is a container for many of the lessons Fadell learned about leadership, design, startups, decision-making, mentorship, failure, and success during his 30+ years of experience in Silicon Valley. He imparts this knowledge through real-life stories of being in the room when some of techs most important products were being created. Fadells great insight may be that you dont have to reinvent everything from scratch to make something great. Some old-school, tried-and-true principles of collaboration and management can set the stage for the biggest technology breakthroughs. Mark Sullivan, senior writer

Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American IntelligenceBy Amy B. Zegart, published February 1, 2022Spanning a history from George Washington and the Revolutionary War to space satellites, Amy Zegart investigates how the development of American espionage now faces a digital revolution capable of transforming everything we think we know about espionage. According to Zegart, its the private citizens, those who can track nuclear threats using only Google Earth, who can show us how technology has created vast discoveries and plenty of new enemies. For anyone ready to uncover the dark, rapidly transforming state of espionage, Spies, Lies, and Algorithms is for you. Grace Buono, editorial intern

After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its SoulBy Tripp Mickle, published June 3, 2022Author Tripp Mickle, a veteran Apple reporter who has broken numerous stories on the company, has looked closely at the drastic changes that occurred at Americas Favorite Tech Company since the death of its cofounder and spiritual leader Steve Jobs in 2011. After Steve tells the untold story of the rise of companys COO-turned-CEO Tim Cook and the fading influence of design chief Jony Ive, whom Jobs considered his spiritual kin. Mickle interviewed hundreds of people in and around the company to describe major events from the Cook era, as well as address big questions about how Apple might develop new, world-changing products as its profits shift away from the iPhone. Mark Sullivan, senior writer

Road to Nowhere: Silicon Valley and the Future of MobilityBy Paris Marx, out July 5, 2022Writer Paris Marx turns a critical eye to Silicon Valleys utopian proposals for the future of transportation. By examining the history of mass mobility in the U.S. and the various contracts and subsidies doled out to the transportation industry by the federal government, Marx paints a picture of a sector gone wild, one that offers highfalutin (if not improbable) solutions that conveniently ignore the question of accessibility. But more than a ride share service or an underground tunnel, Marx argues, we need to put our energy into improving public transit, and better prioritizing the needs of pedestrians and cyclists. Its a scathing read, and one that could make you want to buy a bicycle before a Tesla. Max Ufberg, senior staff editor

Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative PotentialBy Tiago Forte, published June 14, 2022Research has shown that many of us have become lax about remembering information we may need later, because we know in the back of our minds that Google is always there. Author Tiago Forte, a productivity expert, argues that we need a new way of thinking about information and technology to effectively manage and streamline our information. In Second Brain, Forte introduces a four-step process called CODEan acronym for Capture, Organize, Distill, and Expressthat leverages existing technology to help you store your most important ideas and memories in your phone where they can be called up at a moments notice. Until memory implants become a thing, mastering the second brain in your hip pocket might be our best move. Mark Sullivan, senior writer

Thriving on Overload: The 5 Powers for Success in a World of Exponential InformationBy Ross Dawson, out September 6, 2022Australian entrepreneur, futurist, and author Ross Dawson offers readers actionable steps for how, given todays information overload and 24-hour news cycle, we can continue to thrive. Knowing how to survive and navigate this access to limitless information is key not only for success, but improved personal well-being, according to Dawson. Presenting lessons from leading information masters, including Dawsons clients at Citibank, Google, and Microsoft, Thriving on Overload offers the five best ways to manage our information-drenched world. Grace Buono, editorial intern

Dignity in a Digital Age: Making Tech Work for All of UsBy Ro Khanna, published February 1Congressman Ro Khanna, whose district encompasses much of Silicon Valley, has a unique challenge as a politician. Most Congresspeople spend lots of time working to bring appropriations (pork) back to their home districts. Khanna has made it his cause to help more people outside his district benefit from the wealth-generating power of the tech sector. [J]ust as people can move to technology, technology can move to people, the books foreword states. Dignity proposes practical ways of healing the lingering symptoms of the digital divide, such as poor rural broadband, job automation, and inequalities in technological access. MAGA America believes that the coastal elite has benefited from techs growing wealth while everybody else has been left with the bad side effects, such as job automation. Khannas ideas might spread techs wealth more evenly, and in so doing begin to soothe the countrys simmering political tensions. Mark Sullivan, senior writer

Everything I Need I Get From You: How Fangirls Created the Internet As We Know ItBy Kaitlyn Tiffany, published June 14, 2022In her first book, journalist Kaitlyn Tiffany, a self-identified One Direction fangirl, explores how fandoms on Twitter, Tumblr, and other internet platforms have shaped what we know about social interactions online. Tiffany traces the stereotypes and limitations so often assigned to these music fanaticsfrom the fangirls of the Beatles to One Directionultimately arguing that weve underestimated them for too long. Taking a step back from her role as a participant in fandom subculture, Tiffany asks why fangirls took to the internet and how our digital lives have changed since. Grace Buono, editorial intern

Binge Times: Inside Hollywoods Furious Billion-Dollar Battle to Take Down NetflixBy Dade Hayes and Dawn Chmielewski, published April 19, 2022The television industry has undergone a massive shift from broadcast and cable TV to streaming video. Old-guard media companies (including Disney) have had to play a difficult game of catch-up against the likes of streaming pioneer Netflix and the deep-pocketed Amazon Prime Video, both of which got a decades head start. Binge Times tells the inside story of how Apple, AT&T/WarnerMedia, Comcast/NBCUniversal, and well-funded startup Quibi scrambled to create and launch streaming products to compete against Netflix. Hayes and Chmielewski describe how these companies were forced to repeatedly redesign their streaming products, as well as their org charts and strategic plans to capture their share of the streaming future. Mark Sullivan, senior writer

The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New FutureBy Sebastian Mallaby, published February 1, 2022Author Sebastian Mallaby has made a career out of chronicling various aspects of how finance works and, in The Power Law, he turns his attention to what he believes is the under-sung role that venture capitalists have played in the innovation economy. Mallabys book is most compellingeven to the most ardent followers of VC fundingwhen he delineates the history of the now taken-for-granted financial innovations of startup fundraising: employee stock options, funding rounds, growth equity, founder control, and more. For those less initiated in Silicon Valley history, the VC-eye view into the early days of Atari, Cisco, Apple, Google, and other iconic names add fizz and surprise. Mallaby can be heavy-handed in proffering his thesis, veering into terrain that would suggest that the money men deserve more credit than the creative folks who had the company ideas in the first place. In the process, though, he perhaps reveals more than he realizes about the cutthroat nature of venture capital. In these times when every capital allocator has issued dire warnings to their portfolio companies and would-be suitors for their dry powder, the unintended takeaway that VCs will ultimately do whatever they need to do to save their investment is one that adds an extra bit of piquancy to this otherwise triumphalist romp through Silicon Valley history. David Lidsky, deputy editor

The Metaverse And How It Will Revolutionize EverythingBy Matthew Ball, out July 19, 2022Theorist and venture capitalist Matthew Ball was all about the metaverse well before the concept suddenly, in 2021, became the topic of endless tech press articles and before Facebook co-opted the term, even going so far as to rename the company after it. Ball has been defining what the metaverse might be, from the technical implications to the human consequences, in a series of influential essays going back years. He brings his whole body of thought on the matter together in The Metaverse, exploring the technologies involvedincluding the breakthroughs that will be necessary to fully realize itthe governance challenges, as well as the roles of Web3, blockchains, and NFTs. Ball predicts that the metaverse will eventually subsume the internet, in which case things like social networking and searching for content would no longer happen on little screens but would surround us via the magic of AR and VR. Mark Sullivan, senior writer

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According to PwCs 2022 Digital Trends in Supply Chain Survey, 80 percent of operations and information technology leaders surveyed say technology investments have failed to fully deliver expected results.

According to the survey of 244 operations and information technology leaders, top obstacles to full delivery of results are not getting the expected capabilities and needing more time to implement the technology, but other reasons, including internal shortcomings, were cited.

PwC wrote in the study, Companies may not have committed to a strategy thats linked to their investments. Without a clear business case and dedicated change management including actions such as leadership communications and adequate training full technology adoption and execution can suffer, and the anticipated value from the investment may not be achieved.

Cloud was found leading planned investment, but technologies such as third-party analytics, scan and intelligent data capture, RFID and IoT were competitive at lower levels of investment.

Blue Yonders Supply Chain & Logistics Executive Survey found that most supply chain executives (42 percent) plan to focus on the implementation and enhancement of warehouse management systems in the next 12 months, followed by transportation management systems (36 percent) and order management (32 percent). Rounding out the top-five were logistics tech supporting supply chain visibility and transparency, 28 percent; and artificial intelligence, 27 percent.

According to the Blue Yonder survey of 150 U.S. executives with responsibility forlogistics and manufacturing operations, the top priorities related to improving customer experience amid the ongoing supply chain disruptions were keeping high-demand items in stock, providing consistent on-time delivery, increasing inventory visibility and optimizing fulfillment options.

In announcing plans Wednesday to join freight forwarding and customs brokerage startup Flexport as its CEO, Dave Clark, Amazons soon-to-exit consumer chief, expressed his enthusiasm to help Flexport tackle global cross-border movement of goods, which he described as the most complicated piece of the supply chain, challenged by varied regulatory rules, geographical distances and siloed network of providers.

He wrote on LinkedIn, The supply chain has entered everyday national discourse for all the wrong reasons. Put simply, the United States supply chain suffers from a significant fragmentation of technology and process.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: Which logistics technologies promise to help global supply chains run more efficiently and whats causing the apparent shortcomings? Do you agree the U.S. supply chain suffers from a significant fragmentation of technology and process?

"Technology is wonderful and amazing. Relying solely on technology to solve knotty problems is a losing position."

"Reliable technology certainly gave brands an upper hand amidst the crisis in many ways."

"The long term solution to the supply chain is the ability to track each product item through the supply chain much like Lululemon has done."

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Could better technology have averted the supply chain crisis? RetailWire - RetailWire

The merger combines IoT technology with software services to empower the road freight transport sector

BEIJING, June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- G7 Connect Inc. ("G7"), a fleet management company backed by Tencent Holdings Ltd., and E6 Technology ("E6"), announced the merger of the two companies. The merger took place in the first quarter of 2022, with the initial stage of their business integration having been completed. G7 co-founder and CEO Zhai Xuehun has been appointed as chairman and CEO of the merged group (hereafter referred to as the "Group"), while E6 chairman and CEO Zhang Jingtao will serve as vice chairman and G7 CFO Zhang Jielong as CFO.

G7 Connect and E6 Technology Announce Completion of Merger

The merger will create the largest and most influential software service provider in the industry, with businesses spanning key vertical markets covering both production and consumer logistics. The Group's customers include major players in the trillion-yuan road freight transport market. With its product portfolio serving as a one-stop digital service that integrates subscriptions and transactions, the merged entity consolidates the two prior firms' advantages in technology, making it the only technology company in the sector to provide a comprehensive range of Internet of Things (IoT) software as a service (SaaS) services.

The Group is well positioned to provide customers with more cost-competitive, premium services by optimizing its supply chain and service networks and reducing procurement and operating expenses. It also plans to continue investing in technology and R&D in a move to provide customers with valuable data-driven products, with the aim of facilitating an industry-wide upgrade to a connected supply chain supported by data intelligence.

G7 and E6 were among the few fleet management firms that were capable of providing IoT SaaS solutions due to substantial investments in IoT, data, algorithms and software technologies alongside continued strengthening of their respective advantages in technology as a way to build barriers to competitors. Both firms had also explored and implemented differentiated approaches based on their respective core competencies. Notably, G7 had established a leadership role in the area of IoT technology empowered software subscription, and overall capacity and transactions on transpiration, energy, insurance and equipment, while E6 had been dedicated to providing software subscription services to large cargo owners and logistics providers, becoming a leader within the domain of consumer logistics, including fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), retail, food, and cold chain logistics.

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"Although the digital transformation journey of the sector has just begun, freight cooperators are looking forward to changing how they operate and achieving business success through the application of digital solutions," said the chairman and CEO, Mr. Zhai. "The combination of G7 and E6 enables us to invest more firmly in technology and to further create value for our customers by way of data-driven products."

"Prior to the merger, both companies believed in the importance of helping customers succeed and bringing changes to the sector by virtue of IoT SaaS services while post-merger, the shared belief has become our common ambition," stated the vice chairman, Mr. Zhang. "We plan to continue providing premium products and services with the goal of building an outstanding SaaS company with an ongoing commitment to creating value for customers."

G7, a leading provider of IoT SaaS services for the road freight transport sector, served a wide range of small, medium and large freight managerwith IoT-based software subscriptions and transaction services. The firm, by continuing innovations in technology and expanding its portfolio, had been leading the sector in terms of software subscriptions as well as transaction services for transport capacity, energy, insurance and equipment. E6, a pioneer in IoT SaaS services for the sector, had been dedicated to providing customers with IoT-based software subscription services with a focus on large cargo owners and logistics companies. With a continued commitment to tightly-run operations and superior services, the company has earned a reputation as the dark horse in the FMCG, retail, food and cold chain segments.

As two leaders in the IoT technology and software services space, both G7 and E6 had been focusing on providing IoT technologies and software to large cargo owners and logistics providers as well as to tens of thousands of freight managers. Prior to the merger, the two firms together served over 80% of China's large cargo owners and logistics providers in addition to assisting almost 30,000 small and medium-sized freight managers in improving efficiency and increasing revenue.

The merger received strong support from both firms' shareholders. AnJie Law Firm, Llinks Law Offices, Global Law Office, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Deloitte, KPMG and Boston Consulting Group provided professional services for both the transaction and integration efforts. Following the completion of the merger, Global Logistic Properties' private equity arm Hidden Hill Capital, Tencent, Cainiao Smart Logistics Network and other investors have each appointed representatives to the Group's board of directors in tandem with carrying out specific tasks with an eye to further deepening their business collaboration.

Freight manager refer to enterprises that manage the operation and trading activities of road freight, including large, medium and small cargo owners, logistics companies, self-owned fleets, outsourced fleets, commerce trading companies , manufacturing enterprises, etc. According to a BCG research report, about 700,000 freightmanagers carry about 85% of China's road freight volume and are major players in the road freight market.

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By: Office of Educational Technology

One of the most critical challenges illuminated by the recent period of emergency remote learning has been providing access to reliable, high-speed internet and connected devices to facilitate everywhere, all-the-time learning. Data clearly show the lack of these essential technologies impact communities of color and low-income communities to a disproportionate extent.As schools recover from the pandemic, several federal agencies and the Office of Educational Technology (OET) are stepping up to provide resources to close the digital divide.

For Learners and Families: getinternet.gov

The FCCs Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) allows qualifying households to reduce their internet costs by up to $30/month ($75/month on Tribal lands). Getinternet.gov is a simple, easy-to-use website with details on how households can sign up for ACP and find participating providers in their area. Several companies additionally committed to offer ACP-eligible families at least one high-speed plan for $30/month or less, with no additional fees and no data caps. This mean that if households apply their ACP benefit to one of these plans, they would have no out-of-pocket cost for internet.

For Schools and Districts: tech.ed.gov/ACP

To help schools and districts as they assist with ACP sign-ups, OET collaborated with the FCC and USDA to update the OET website with FAQs and resources to facilitate communication with families about their ACP eligibility. This includes a template letter to let families know their child receives free or reduced-price school meals and therefore meets the ACPs eligibility criteria. OET also provides a sample form that can be used to obtain families consent to share their childs eligibility for free or reduced-price school meals with ACP-participating providers.

For State and Local Leaders: internetforall.gov

NTIAs Internet for All initiative organizes funding opportunities from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law aimed at connecting all Americans to high-speed internet, making internet access more affordable, and ensuring all students have access to technology-enabled learning opportunities. As state and local leaders develop plans to implement these funds, education stakeholders can be involved to ensure that investments will equitably address challenges faced by learners, families, and communities.

Educators are increasingly leveraging active and innovative learning opportunities made possible through technology. Schools are also accelerating the implementation of whole learner approaches with technology, including connections to social-emotional supports, parent-educator engagement opportunities, tele-health and tele-mental health, and basic needs services. The resources above can help ensure these opportunities become equitably and sustainably available to all learners, families, and communities.

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United Nations Secretary-General Antnio Guterres today announced the appointment of Amandeep Singh Gill of India as his Envoy on Technology. The Secretary-General wishes to extend his appreciation and gratitude to the Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs, Maria-Francesca Spatolisano, for her dedication and commitment as Acting Envoy on Technology.

Mr. Gill is the Chief Executive Officer of the International Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence Research Collaborative project, based at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.

A thought leader on digital technology, he brings to the position a deep knowledge of digital technologies coupled with a solid understanding of how to leverage the digital transformation responsibly and inclusively for progress on the Sustainable Development Goals.

Previously, he was the Executive Director and Co-Lead of the United Nations Secretary-Generals High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation (2018-2019). In addition to delivering the report of the High-Level Panel, Mr. Gill helped secure high-impact international consensus recommendations on regulating artificial intelligence in lethal autonomous weapon systems in2017 and2018, the draft artificial intelligence ethics recommendation of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization(UNESCO) in2020, and a new international platform on digital health and artificial intelligence.

Mr. Gill was Indias Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva(2016-2018). He joined his countrys diplomatic service in1992 and served in various capacities in disarmament and strategic technologies and international security affairs, with postings in Tehran and Colombo. He was also a visiting scholar at Stanford University.

Mr. Gill holds a PhD in nuclear learning in multilateral forums from Kings College, London, a Bachelor of Technology in electronics and electrical communications from Panjab University, Chandigarh, and an Advanced Diploma in French history and language from Geneva University. He is fluent in English, French, Hindi and Punjabi.

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There is a common saying that your ZIP code matters more than your genetic code.

In short, where you live matters to your health risks and outcomes. But it shouldnt. COVID-19 brought into much sharper focus the health disparities that have long existed within our communities. We better understood vaccination rates, hospitalizations and deaths based on your ZIP code. And it also further identified the gaps in care and treatments for many health conditions.

On the hopeful side, technology and data insights are being used to address health disparities, to prevent bias in care delivery and ultimately to help improve overall outcomes in all communities. Health techquity or the strategic design, development, and deployment of technology to advance health equity, empowers providers to look beyond clinical factors to get the whole picture of a persons key indicators affecting health. Understanding a persons social risk factors gives clinicians the ability to provide person-centric, equitable care and informs overall treatment planning.

Techquity helps.

For example, the Oracle Cerner Determinants of Health solution helps organizations advance whole person care by identifying and intervening on social risk factors through action-oriented community analytics and social determinants of health capabilities embedded within care management workflows.

Lack of standardized data collection, incomplete data and limited resources and tools create barriers to adequately understanding and addressing the needs of populations. Using community social risk insights, coupled with EHR data and geospatial capabilities, it is possible to identify areas of elevated social risk, such as transportation barriers, air quality and food access, drilled down from a county to a census block group. These insights provide population health, care management and community health teams key details into social, economic and environmental risk patient populations may be experiencing in order to develop targeted interventions.

These stronger connections to social needs impacting health thanks to technology and data insights are making a difference for the better, both to individuals and entire populations. As a global leader in healthcare technologies, Oracle Cerner has compelling examples of how data is driving more equitable healthcare in the U.S. and around the world:

University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center: A screening tool allowed the hospital to get a better handle on the correlation between adverse social determinants and poor health outcomes in the diabetes population and those with other chronic conditions. The results led to a decision to hire community health workers for all primary care clinics and the emergency rooms. All patients can be screened to uncover and address important social risks.

Roper St. Francis Healthcare in South Carolina: Using geospatial modeling, the system found that patients at risk for diabetes and hypertension congregated at an African American church. Partnering with church leaders some of them nurses - the health system developed wellness programs, prevention strategies and health screenings. The result: risk levels in the population decreased 50%.

NHS in the United Kingdom: Data in 2020 showed people with learning disabilities are six times more likely to be hospitalized with the flu than the general population. A solution: pop-up flu vaccination clinics tailored to people who have learning disabilities that resulted in a 92% increase in vaccinations for that population.

Schools in the Middle East A country in the Middle East is using data to make healthy decisions for its entire citizenry! The government adapted school menus, decided where to put gyms and where not to put fast-food chains based on diabetes prevention.

These examples of techquity in healthcare are a multi-stakeholder effort. It takes all of us to create an equitable path to healing and better health for our communities. At Oracle Cerner, we created a collaborative with more than 50 organizations to focus on health equity and social determinants of health innovation. These are not just health IT leaders these are hospital administrators, clinicians, social workers, care managers and population health leaders sharing successes and challenges in their efforts to improve the conditions in which their patients live.

Using helpful tools and data insights allow caregivers and care teams to spend more time with their patients. And techquity helps patients get access to the care they need by meeting them where they are at so they can enjoy healthy lives.

This story was originally published on HLTH.

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By Belinda Watson, Research Intern

What started in a required course at the U of A progressed to a National Science Foundation National Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps) awardee ($50,000) with the potential for industry application.

In the fall of 2019, Taylor Farnan enrolled in Clinical Observations and Needs Findings, and would go on to instigate a groundbreaking technology. Clinical Observations and Needs Findings is a required course for students studying biomedical engineering. The purpose of the course is to pair students up with clinicians, depending on their areas of interest, and promote engagement with a variety of different medical environments to pinpoint a need or problem and begin developing a solution, thus preparing students for their senior capstone course. Through this course, Farnan began to work with Dr. Astryd A. Menendez.

Menendez is a pediatric pulmonologist at Arkansas Children's Hospital, and in her experience with the pulmonary function lab, they were struggling to get consistent and accurate data amongst pediatric patients. To gauge lung health, capacity and overall function, doctors administer a spirometry pulmonary function test. The test consists of a patient blowing into a machine, called a spirometer, for six seconds starting with the lungs filled to the top (total lung capacity) with air and exhaling it out to residual volume. But for many pediatric patients, who have never encountered this strange contraption, it is impossible to complete the test. Most pediatric patients can only exhale for three seconds or less, inhibiting accurate evaluations of lung function, resulting in extra visits and tests. Additionally, because it is so difficult to get accurate results from these tests, it is equally as difficult to physiologically assess their lung disease.

At this realization, Farnan began to wonder if she and her team could create a device that would allow patients to prepare for the test, cutting back on extra cost and appointment time. The following spring, in 2019, Farnan recruited Lina Patel, another biomedical engineering student at the U of A, for her technical skills in hardware, software and 3-D printing. With Farnan's idea in mind, the team got to work.

The technology developed quickly through the 2020-2021 school year. The team began developing the device, creating prototypes and testing it out, partnering with electrical engineering students to develop software for their "Pediatric Pulmonary Emission Device." At this point, the device had become the team's senior capstone project, but with graduation fast approaching, neither Patel nor Farnan wanted to leave it behind. They recognized the incredible impact their device could have on testing and diagnostics, and so, they persisted. Nathan Lucas, also a biomedical engineering student at the UofA, then joined the team because of his technical experience and familiarity with the medical device industry.

Looking forward, the team has been accepted into the Summer Cohort No. 1 NSF National I-Corps program and is a recipient of the Chancellor's Commercialization Fund, both totaling $100,000 of follow-on funding investment from the original $300 investment. With this money, the team is hoping to validate their business model and will develop an additional 400 prototypes, enough to allow them to perform a clinical Institutional Review Board study, taking them one step closer to the market.

Farnan is currently at the Georgia Institute of Technology in a Biomedical Innovation and Development Master's program. Amongst other things, she is learning about intellectual property, protecting technology and bringing devices, like their Pediatric Spirometry Training Device, to market. Lucas, who will graduate this spring, plans to continue his education at the University of Kansas in the fall, participating in a similar program. He will continue to support the team through their NSF applications as well as working to bring their device to market. Patel plans to continue at University of Arkansas for Medical Scienceswith Menendez, specifically facilitating market application and ensuring clinician interest in the product, which is essential to taking a product to market in the medical field.

The team is advised and supported by industry mentor Ryan Shelton, CEO and co-founder of PhotoniCareInc.;Morten Jensen, biomedical engineering faculty member and Arkansas Research Alliance Scholar; and Menedez, professor of pediatric and pulmonary medicine in the UAMS College of Medicine Pediatric Pulmonary Section. If the customer discovery results prove to be favorable from the NSF National I-Corps program, the team hopes to apply for the Chancellor's $100,000GAP Fund, create a new startup company and commercialize their product within the next few years, revolutionizing pediatric pulmonary testing and diagnostics.

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