Omexom’s universal, rapid Nomad Mapping System technology is used to perform highly operational topographic surveys for companies. Google and its Maps and Street View tools have given the public at large an understanding of the benefits of geolocation and visual display of our everyday environment. The same capabilities are game-changers for industrial undertakings and businesses […]
First Luxembourg, then Nice, and now Caen has opted for “Affordable Safety”, the solution developed by the VINCI Energies subsidiary, which installs large-scale signalling systems for underground transport. Here’s why. It may only be half the size of a shoe box but it packs quite a punch: the safety PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) developed by […]
VINCI Energies brand VINCI Facilities has joined forces with the Bureaux à Partager (BAP) company to conduct a large coworking project aimed at developing new flexible office solutions and services for the group’s customers. “We will reinvent the way people work day-to-day,” says Clément Alteresco, CEO of the BAP group. VINCI Facilities has enlisted 118 […]
Electricity grids, disrupted by the advent of renewable energies, incipient self-consumption, and the decline of conventional power stations, must devise a new approach to stability, paying special attention to data and energy storage solutions. “Until now, electricity grids have been asked to provide enough capacity to cover peak consumption. Now we are also asking them […]
Nuscience, a company specialising in animal feed supplements, developed its ‘factory of the future’ , Belgium, in partnership with Actemium. They received the renowned Belgian “Factory of the Future Award” in February 2017, thanks to a good collaboration between all partners. Nuscience Group Chief Operating Officer Chris Mercier describes the project. What does your company […]
Faced with the need not only to increase order fulfilment speed so as to deliver as quickly as possible to the end client but also to optimise costs in order to improve the competitiveness of the industrial system, the logistics sector is taking steps to innovate. Actemium explains. To adapt to changing consumption modes while […]
We can draw inspiration from biological processes and systems and the workings of nature to make cities and urban practices more sustainable. On the one hand, you have rapid urbanisation and its harmful effects on the environment and humanity. And on the other, you have nature, which has been operating in a virtuous manner for […]
The interest shown by Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft in innovative electricity grids may well be about cultivating their reputation. But it’s also about staking out positions in new markets. Facebook and Microsoft recently joined forces with an investment fund to launch the Microgrid Investment Accelerator (MIA), an initiative designed to mobilise $50 million […]
Total and VINCI Energies are building on the current trend towards co-innovation by large groups. The “Factory 4.0” start-up incubator that Total has opened to several industrial partners including VINCI Energies is a case in point. A multi-corporate co-innovation and sharing programme can boost efficiency. On 5 January 2018, Total issued its third “Factory 4.0” […]
