"Emirates Global Aluminium" Launches a platform for digital manufacturing
Abu Dhabi, May 15 / WAM / Emirates Global Aluminium, today announced the launch of one of the first digital manufacturing platforms in the region with the aim of creating more value through applications of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, as part of its strategic partnership with Microsoft to accelerate the pace of the company’s digital transformation plan.
The platform easily integrates hardware, software, processes, and people into all of the company’s locations around the world. It was established using the latest generation of Microsoft Azure cloud (Microsoft Azure Hybrid), where artificial intelligence is widely used across the company’s industrial operations globally, including Jebel Ali and Al Taweelah. It contributes to improving the efficiency, quality and safety of industrial processes.
The platform is based on advanced digital architecture previously used in defense and space projects and combines the advantages of public and private cloud processing within the company.
The new digital manufacturing platform enables EGA to reduce the cost of performing AI-based image and video analytics by more than 80%, while increasing the speed of its implementation by up to 13 times compared to the solutions previously adopted by the company.
The new digital manufacturing platform allows the processing of more than 2.9 petabytes of real-time data annually, the equivalent of streaming more than 32,000 4K movies, and the company will continue to increase this capacity in the future.
Abdul Nasser Bin Kalban, CEO of Emirates Global Aluminium, said: “The digital manufacturing platform that was established in cooperation with Microsoft works to develop our operations through the use of artificial intelligence on a large scale and provides more opportunities to benefit from the applications of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.”
For his part, Carlo Nizam, Chief Digital Officer at Emirates Global Aluminium, said: “The digital transformation strategy of Emirates Global Aluminium depends on two main axes. The first is implementing digital solutions to achieve positive and rapid change in operations, and the second includes building major digital pillars to enable digital transformation on At the company level, the digital manufacturing platform is one of these key foundations.” In turn, Christoph Berlin, General Manager and Partner Engineer, Microsoft Azure and Microsoft, said that the launch of the new platform represents a major achievement within our strategic cooperation with Emirates Global Aluminum. The new digital manufacturing platform, which was developed in partnership with Microsoft, is an important example of using Microsoft technologies to make a shift. Quality in operational technology.”
In 2024, Emirates Global Aluminum Company announced the launch of the first data centers in the region powered by renewable energy in the industrial sector at its headquarters in Jebel Ali and Al Taweelah, and the digital manufacturing platform will be hosted in the company’s data centers in the future.
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