CEO Insights: The main benefits of augmented reality for industrial companies
· Connected Industry

CEO Insights: The main benefits of augmented reality for industrial companies

Industrial players have begun to explore the benefits augmented reality (AR) can offer, a trend that has nowhere to go but up. AR aims to deliver higher productivity, quality, and accountability, quickly identifying the problems and keeping all the services and processes going. Brian Ballard, CEO of Upskill, explains how AR brings value for industrial […]

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Reinvent your Sales Model – Create Lean Distribution to prepare for the Industrial IoT Era
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Reinvent your Sales Model – Create Lean Distribution to prepare for the Industrial IoT Era

Industrial manufacturers seeking a market-share increase must become proactive and help distributors to evolve by reinventing into marketing and sales organizations. These organizations are part of a new order called lean distribution. They are highly focused on product selling, sales growth and adding new customers and less focused on inventory, delivery and transactions. Drastic reduction […]

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5 Ways Drones Are Transforming Earthworks Projects
· Artificial Intelligence & ML

5 Ways Drones Are Transforming Earthworks Projects

Drones have quickly become one of the most versatile tools on the construction site. Whether it’s for documentation before pouring concrete, making pre-design processes more efficient, or speeding up data collection for infrastructure projects, drones have become the aerial eye of the jobsite, helping construction professionals work better and more productively. One area that drones […]

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The main issues with today’s Industrial Automation Sales Channel
· Smart Manufacturing

The main issues with today’s Industrial Automation Sales Channel

For decades, American industry has purchased much of its electrical, electronic and hydraulic products from independent distributors. Customers and manufacturers experience many advantages by using the industrial distributor business model. Local support, off-book cost, customer credit buffer and customer knowledge are just some of the traditional attractions. However, manufacturers have recently become dissatisfied, feeling that […]

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CEO Insights: We’re entering a “Golden Age” as it relates to the field of robotics
· Artificial Intelligence

CEO Insights: We’re entering a “Golden Age” as it relates to the field of robotics

As part of the CEO Insights Series, IIoT World’s Managing Editor, Lucian Fogoros, interviews Ben Wolff, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer & Director of Sarcos, about industrial robots. Lucian Fogoros: The number of industrial robots deployed worldwide will increase to around 2.6 million units by 2019. That’s about one million units more than in the record-breaking year of 2015. […]

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How will ICS cybersecurity standards be impacted by IIoT?
· Cybersecurity

How will ICS cybersecurity standards be impacted by IIoT?

There has been quite a bit of discussion and speculation about the potential impact of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) on the development, deployment, and operation of industrial control systems (ICS). Predictions have ranged from “Nothing changes” to “It will turn everything that we do on its head.” As is usual in situations like […]

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Joseph Weiss, Managing Partner
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Joseph Weiss, Managing Partner

Joseph Weiss is an industry expert on control systems and electronic security of control systems, with more than 40 years of experience in the energy industry. Mr. Weiss spent more than 14 years at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) where he led a variety of programs including the Nuclear Plant Instrumentation and Diagnostics Program, […]

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Securing Industrial IoT: There is no simple answer
· Cybersecurity

Securing Industrial IoT: There is no simple answer

There are lots of terms thrown around these days, such as: Internet of Things (IoT), Industrial Controls Systems (ICS), Operational Technology (OT). What this means is that there are billions of interconnected consumer devices and industrial systems, not running a traditional computer operating system. This number dwarfs the number of traditional computer systems and it […]

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The right representation of Digital Twins for Data Analytics
· Digital Disruption

The right representation of Digital Twins for Data Analytics

What are digital twins? Digital twins are digital representations of physical objects. In simple cases, sensors for example, the digital representations may be trivial (e.g., current values for temperature, RPMs, etc.). More interesting cases involve complex, and usually expensive, capital assets such as diesel engines, turbines, and heavy duty mining and construction equipment. In these […]

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Saar Yoskovitz, CEO
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Saar Yoskovitz, CEO

Saar Yoskovitz, an avid entrepreneur, has extensive experience in machine learning, signal processing algorithms and system architecture. Prior to founding Augury, Saar worked as an analog architect at Intel. Saar holds a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and a Bachelor of Science in physics from the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion). During his studies, […]

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Juan José Bello, Contributor
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Juan José Bello, Contributor

Juan José is an IoT enthusiast and content writer for Ubidots, an Internet of Things platform that enables thousands of makers and companies to prototype and scale their own IoT projects. Juan enjoys getting lost a book during the week and playing his acoustic guitar on the weekends.  

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Suman Singh, Product Marketing Manager
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Suman Singh, Product Marketing Manager

Suman has several years of B2B marketing experience across various functions including Product Marketing, Content Marketing, Competitive Intelligence and Campaign Management. As a global product marketing manager at Fujitsu Technology Solutions, he is responsible for Fujitsu’s ESPRIMO product line. Prior to joining Fujitsu, Suman worked in companies like Schneider Electric, IBM and Macmillan in different […]

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