Cognizant
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At Cognizant, we help our clients do what others can’t—operate with human insight, but at superhuman speed. So they get ahead. And stay ahead.
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Cognizant Signs Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS to Empower the Digital Factory and Enhance Smart Manufacturing
Cognizant (NASDAQ:CTSH) announced that it has signed a strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS), with plans to deliver advanced technology solutions and cloud computing services, focused on enhancing smart manufacturing capabilities for global enterprises across industries.
This latest expansion of Cognizant’s collaboration with AWS is designed to meet the growing market demand for Internet of Things (IoT), data, artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud adoption in Industry 4.0 applications, such as digital twins, simulations, manufacturing execution systems, edge computing, and operational technology (OT) cybersecurity solutions, which Cognizant plans to demonstrate in its manufacturing innovation centers in the United States (U.S.) and India.
Under the collaboration, Cognizant will work with clients to advise, implement, deploy and manage smart manufacturing solutions, which include performing OT system integration, network modernization using an industrial data platform and autonomous plant operations tools built on AWS. Clients may experience a range of benefits to assist with manufacturing operations, including real-time visibility into production operations, predictive maintenance capabilities, and enhanced real-time data-driven decision-making, powered by generative AI.
Cognizant is already delivering smart manufacturing solutions in the aerospace industry, notably through Cognizant’s engagement with Brazilian multinational aerospace firm, Embraer.
Powering Intelligent Factory Operations with Cognizant’s APEx Factory Whisperer and AWS
In this blog post, we expand on a prior blog post on Cognizant’s APEx solution and demonstrate how AWS IoT SiteWise, AWS IoT TwinMaker, and Amazon Bedrock are used to provide expert guidance to mitigate critical issues in the manufacturing plant. The solution parses operational data from the manufacturing environment, alarms, historical trends, troubleshooting results, workshop manuals, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and Piping & Instrumentation (P&ID) diagrams of a factory and associated assets. We will describe how customers use “Factory Whisperer”, Cognizant’s APEx generative AI assistant solution, to increase uptime, improve quality, and reduce operating costs for manufacturing organizations.
Factory Whisperer uses several different AWS services to provide expert-level guidance to plant managers and maintenance teams. When a user asks Factory Whisperer about a problem, the solution uses natural language processing to understand the question. It then retrieves relevant information from a corporate knowledge base containing manuals, procedures, and past troubleshooting data, as well as real-time and historical sensor recordings. The solution uses a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) technique to combine this contextual information to provide a tailored, expert-like response that suggests steps to diagnose and fix the issue, using a large language model.
Cognizant to Acquire Belcan
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Belcan, LLC, a portfolio company of AE Industrial Partners and a leading global supplier of Engineering Research & Development (ER&D) services, at a purchase price of approximately $1.3 billion in cash and stock, subject to customary adjustments.
Belcan is an established player in ER&D that provides mission-critical digital engineering services for a long-standing customer base across the commercial aerospace, defense, space, marine and industrial verticals, primarily in North America and the United Kingdom (UK).
The acquisition will significantly expand Cognizant’s ER&D capabilities, building upon the Company’s leadership in the Internet of Things (IoT) and Digital Engineering practice areas. Combining with Belcan will also add scale and enable Cognizant to establish a leadership position in the high-growth aerospace & defense (A&D) industry with a blue-chip client base, deep domain expertise, and significant technological capabilities with over 6,500 engineers and technical consultants.
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Uptake Teams up with Cognizant to Unlock Unified Data Management for Energy & Utilities Industries
Uptake, the leader in industrial intelligence software-as-a-service, announced today its collaboration with Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH), a leading professional services company, to enable unified data management for the energy and utilities industries. This partnership brings together Uptake Fusion, which collects, moves, organizes, and curates data in Microsoft Azure to power advanced industrial analytics and asset performance management, with the industry consulting, systems integration, and application services of Cognizant.