Global IT service company DXC Technology has opened a Digital Transformation Centre at Swinburne University of Technology, which already boasts a major industry 4.0 facility.
DXC says its Digital Transformation Centre at Swinburne will showcase a new and evolving approach for clients to deliver digital solutions by drawing on DXC’s global experience in digital transformation and Swinburne’s expertise in Industry 4.0 technology, social impact and design thinking.
In August 2017 Swinburne received a $135 million industrial software grantfrom engineering giant Siemens to digitalise its Factory of the Future, creating what it claimed would be Australia’s first fully immersed Industry 4.0 facility.
Swinburne’s deputy vice chancellor of research and development, professor Aleksandar Subic, said the centre would help Swinburne “drive new research-led innovations and solutions for the rapidly changing industry environment.”
DXC said the new centre would engage research excellence across all key digital research capabilities including artificial intelligence and machine learning, blockchain, internet of things, cybersecurity, advanced visualisation, autonomous systems and cloud computing.
It said also that the centre would “enable collaborative research between government, Australian industries and academia, and facilitate the creation of a new talent pool of students to support the evolving needs of workforces and communities as they prepare for a digital future.”
First project will help vision impaired
DXC and Swinburne have named Guide Dogs Victoria as the centre’s first client. Guide Dogs Victoria has engaged the centre to develop a working prototype of a peer support platform for individuals with low vision or blindness.
Guide Dogs Victoria says the platform will improve the social participation and independence of people with low vision and blindness by connecting them with each other as well as useful information and services.
According to its LinkedIn page “[The platform] is aimed at addressing the growing need for accessible information within the blind and low vision communities. … and will allow infographics, websites and pictures from a range of sources to be easily translated and fully accessible.” The project is funded with a $0.5m grant from the NDIS.
