Advanced Techniques for PLC Engineers: Implementing AI-Driven Equipment Health Management with Siemens S7-1500 Using SCL Programming

Advanced Techniques for PLC Engineers: Implementing AI-Driven Equipment Health Management with Siemens S7-1500 Using SCL Programming

In the era of Industry 4.0, predictive maintenance of equipment has become an important development direction for the manufacturing industry. I remember when I implemented an equipment management project at a large steel plant last year, the client proposed a seemingly impossible requirement: to use the existing S7-1500 PLC to implement a simple AI algorithm … Read more

TinyML Technology: AI Running Faster Locally Than in the Cloud

TinyML Technology: AI Running Faster Locally Than in the Cloud

When Smartwatches Can Translate Sign Language in Real Time Have you ever thought that a chip the size of a fingernail could run face recognition? MIT Han Lab’s open-source TinyML technology is making these sci-fi scenarios a reality. This groundbreaking technology has been successfully deployed in over 100,000 IoT devices, with WIRED and MIT News … Read more

TinyML for Microcontrollers in Machine Learning

TinyML for Microcontrollers in Machine Learning

Author: C. J. Abate (USA) Translator: Jun Qian Machine Learning (ML), as a subset of Artificial Intelligence, has been widely applied in various fields including atmospheric science and computer vision. As Dr. Matthew Stewart from Harvard University states, tinyML is an emerging discipline that enables low-resource consumption and low-power machine learning algorithms on resource-constrained microcontrollers. … Read more

Ceva’s NPU Core Targeting TinyML Workloads

Ceva's NPU Core Targeting TinyML Workloads

Ceva’s NPU Core Targeting TinyML Workloads (Dylan McGrath, MPR, September 6, 2024) Ceva’s NeuPro-Nano is a licensed neural processing unit (NPU) designed for running TinyML workloads, providing up to 200 billion operations per second (GOPS) for power-constrained edge IoT devices. Compared to other competing NPU IP products aimed at IoT edge, NeuPro-Nano can function as … Read more

DeepSeek Causal Inference Module: Intervention Effect Estimation and Counterfactual Analysis

DeepSeek Causal Inference Module: Intervention Effect Estimation and Counterfactual Analysis

DeepSeek Causal Inference Module: Revealing How AI Makes Decisions Across Time and Space In today’s rapidly developing artificial intelligence landscape, can machines really trace the causes and effects of events like detectives? Today, let’s discuss DeepSeek’s causal inference module, a black technology hailed as AI’s “time and space traversing” artifact! What is Causal Inference? Imagine … Read more

Comprehensive Guide to Data Analysis in Siemens PLC + AI IoT Technology

Comprehensive Guide to Data Analysis in Siemens PLC + AI IoT Technology

Recently, I encountered an interesting challenge in a production line renovation project at a large pharmaceutical company: how to use real-time data collected from the Siemens S7-1500 PLC, combined with AI technology, to predict equipment failures. This project made me deeply appreciate the powerful potential of combining PLC and AI technologies. Today, let me take … Read more

Decoding Siemens PLC + AI Industrial IoT Solutions

Decoding Siemens PLC + AI Industrial IoT Solutions

Decoding Siemens PLC + AI Industrial IoT Solutions, Full Process Technology from Data Collection to Intelligent Analysis Recently, I participated in a predictive maintenance project for a large steel plant. By combining Siemens S7-1500 PLC with AI technology, we successfully improved the equipment fault prediction accuracy to 93%, saving our clients approximately 2 million yuan … Read more

Revisiting Industrial IoT for 2021: Who Will Cross the Cycle?

Revisiting Industrial IoT for 2021: Who Will Cross the Cycle?

Author: Peng Zhao (Founder of IoT Think Tank & Partner at Yunhe Capital) IoT Think Tank Original Please cite the source and origin Introduction As 2020 comes to a close, the industrial IoT has been climbing against the trend, crossing mountains and rivers, and making significant progress. As we extend into 2021, there are paths … Read more

Centrifugal Pump Maintenance: Enhancing Efficiency with IIoT and AI

Centrifugal Pump Maintenance: Enhancing Efficiency with IIoT and AI

Using these tools can help companies maintain a competitive edge. Michael Mills Fluke Reliability In recent years, economic pressures have increased across almost every industry, leading to a greater emphasis on work efficiency. To remain competitive, organizations/teams need to produce high-quality products quickly and reliably while operating under tighter budgets and reduced workforces. Economic uncertainty … Read more

5G Accelerates Edge Computing: What Do We Still Need?

5G Accelerates Edge Computing: What Do We Still Need?

Cover image | Visual China The development of 5G and the Internet of Things is leading to an explosive growth in data. According to a report by IDC titled “Data Age 2025”, it is predicted that by 2025, the total global data volume for data analytics will increase by 50 times, reaching 5.2ZB. Among this … Read more