IIoT Impact on Asset Performance Management
· Connected Industry

IIoT Impact on Asset Performance Management

The impact of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) on the market for asset reliability software and services cannot be understated. In fact, leading suppliers are using asset performance management (APM) as the entry point to IIoT. The link between APM and IIoT has spurred a flurry of supplier consolidation and strategic alliances as suppliers […]

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Robert Hubbard, Director OEM Development at BlackRidge Technology
· Our Contributors

Robert Hubbard, Director OEM Development at BlackRidge Technology

Rob joined BlackRidge in 2017 to drive network security partnerships and solutions. He was previously with CarbonHelix where he drove their SIEM as a service business with IBM. Rob is a networking and security industry veteran with experience building products, solutions and alliances for Cisco and Juniper Networks. Robert offers a broad and realistic industry perspective […]

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What Data Science Actually Means To Manufacturing
· Connected Industry

What Data Science Actually Means To Manufacturing

Sooner or later the data science jargon and marketing hype is going to subside, and manufacturing companies, among many other sectors, are going to find themselves sitting with broken promises. It is therefore important that these organizations understand clearly how they stand to benefit from and be empowered by data science and the challenges thereof. […]

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The Indubitable Role of Entrepreneurship in Smart Infrastructure
· Digital Disruption

The Indubitable Role of Entrepreneurship in Smart Infrastructure

The world is currently experiencing a fourth industrial revolution due to the rapid development of technologies and digital abundance such as robotics, artificial intelligence, and 3D printing, etc. Gaining more from existing assets is incredibly vital. It awfully will be more cost-effective to add to the overall value of mature infrastructure through digital enhancements than […]

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Industrial Espionage is a major threat to the Manufacturing Sector
· Cybersecurity

Industrial Espionage is a major threat to the Manufacturing Sector

Industrial espionage is nothing new. Theft of trade secrets and corporate intellectual property (IP) such as proprietary manufacturing processes, formulas, recipes, and product designs has been happening for decades. And you probably already know this if you work in industries such as manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals. What is industrial espionage? Industrial espionage is sometimes credited […]

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Smart Cities – From Vertical Farming to Vertiports
· Smart Cities

Smart Cities – From Vertical Farming to Vertiports

Cities are bursting at their seams and to manage the urban sprawl the strategy has been simple – Go vertical! Tall buildings, elevated transportation, vertical farming, and now vertiports! All indications even at the recently concluded Uber Elevate Summit, point to one certainty– the platform disruption is getting ready for lift-off! Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing (eVTOL) […]

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Protecting IIoT with a New Approach to Cyber Defense
· Cybersecurity

Protecting IIoT with a New Approach to Cyber Defense

Measure, monitor and monetize has long been a mantra for any industry or corporation that wants to be successful with its products or services. This capability is finally ubiquitous thanks to technology being powerful enough and cost effective enough to measure and track everything, from a smart football to complex Industrial systems. The Internet of Things […]

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Changing a Lightbulb with a Hammer: Predictive Analytics with Machine Learning
· Predictive Analytics

Changing a Lightbulb with a Hammer: Predictive Analytics with Machine Learning

Machine Learning (ML) isn’t so mystical after all. Machine Learning is a new term that re-packages well-established statistical techniques that have been around for decades. Machine Learning reacts to new information by learning. The “learning” happens by observing the past—sometimes the very recent past. Machine Learning can deliver on the promise of self-adjusting algorithms that […]

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Who owns the Machine Generated Data in IoT – Men or Machine?
· Digital Disruption

Who owns the Machine Generated Data in IoT – Men or Machine?

The data which is acquired by sensors is essentially Machine Generated Data (MGD). This post will dwell on the subject of data ownership of MGD as follows: Sensors (Data Acquisition and Communication) Machine Generated Data The Lifecycle of the MGD and the Ownership Paradigm Who should be the owner of the MGD? In the IoT […]

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Edge Computing – Insights from the Factory Floor
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Edge Computing – Insights from the Factory Floor

The industrial IoT (IIoT) is a relatively new concept for many industrial companies and manufacturers, but FogHorn Systems has been leading the development and implementation of IIoT with a pioneering approach to edge computing and analytics since 2014. This means a lot of time spent with customers and end users, understanding their industrial domains and […]

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CEO Insights: As plants get smarter, manufacturers need to “watch the robots”
· CEO Insights

CEO Insights: As plants get smarter, manufacturers need to “watch the robots”

Using digitization to improve how things get done has boosted revenue by reducing downtime in connected factories. The ability to immediately analyze and respond to process upsets, and the possibility to more accurately conduct scheduled maintenance help manufacturers to save money and to increase productivity. As more plants become smarter, manufacturers need a solution “to […]

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