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Neurimmune licenses heart drug
Schlieren/Boston - Neurimmune is strengthening its collaboration with the AstraZeneca subsidiary Alexion Pharmaceuticals. The company from the Greater Zurich Area has been awarded an exclusive global collaboration and license agreement to develop and commercialize the cardiomyopathy drug NI006.
Helbling facilitates use of AI despite limited data sets
Zurich – Helbling helps companies, especially those operating in medical fields, to deploy Artificial Intelligence despite the availability of only limited data sets. To achieve this, the Zurich-based engineering and consulting firm uses techniques such as transfer learning and artificially increasing the amount and variability of data.
Machine monitoring from Reishauer on the basis of Artificial Intelligence
Wallisellen - Reishauer AG, the Zurich-based gear grinding technology specialist, has developed a program on the basis of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to monitor its continuous generating gear grinding machines. Argus AI is able to detect changes in components such as wear and tear before automatically reporting these findings to a web app. In this way, users can reduce unplanned interruptions and downtimes.
WEYTEC claims award in London
Unterengstringen - The IT firm WEYTEC has won the award for Best Trading Hardware Provider at the London Trader Show. The system developed by the company from the Greater Zurich Area is used to trade 1,000 billion US dollars each day.
Machine monitoring processes powered by Artificial Intelligence
Zurich - Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have developed an Artificial Intelligence that is able to determine on the basis of acoustic data whether a machine is functioning correctly. In this way, machine operators are notified automatically in the event that maintenance is required.
Vietnamese textiles firm turns to Uster
Uster/Da Nang - The Vietnamese textiles firm Hoa Tho Textile has recently started using a platform developed by Uster Technologies to monitor production processes. The platform brings together data on fibers, yarns and materials, which helps to guarantee product quality.
European Central Bank to partner with Squirro
Zurich - The European Central Bank intends to deploy a new Artificial Intelligence solution developed by Squirro in order to analyze unstructured data. The start-up based in the Greater Zurich Area also has plans to grow stateside, having agreed a takeover for the US firm open.exchange.
Swiss flies ahead with shark technology
Kloten - Swiss is the first airline in the world to use a new technology for smoother surfaces on its Boeing aircraft that reduces both carbon emissions and fuel consumption. This technique was developed with BASF and Lufthansa.
Researchers optimize use of cable cranes in forestry work
Birmensdorf/Zurich – Newly developed software can be used to optimally calculate the cable roads for overhead cranes in forestry work. The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich worked together on this development.
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