Karl Hawes
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Karl Hawes

Karl Hawes is a multi-sector business executive with experience in aerospace, satcom, defense, clean energy, and recreational products, just to name a few. His articles have been featured in such periodicals as Fast Company, the Institute for Defense & Government Advancement, and JEC Composites Magazine.  He has successfully managed the growth strategy for several enterprises […]

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How will smart manufacturing transform the supply chain?
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How will smart manufacturing transform the supply chain?

For manufacturers, managing the supply chain from beginning to end has been like traveling two superhighways interrupted by a long stretch of dirt road. Manufacturers have benefited from increasingly powerful tools for demand planning and logistics management – the first and last parts of their supply chains – but tracking the performance of manufacturing production […]

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Robert Albach, Sr. Product Line Manager
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Robert Albach, Sr. Product Line Manager

Robert Albach is the Sr. Product Line Manager – IoT Security for Cisco Systems, Inc. Mr. Albach is responsible for industrial security planning within the security portfolio. He joined Cisco in 2010 when he defined and delivered three network security solutions with the most recent – Cisco’s first Industrial Security Appliance. Prior to his Cisco tenure, he guided the IPS Management solutions and […]

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Daniel Behrens, Technical Marketing Engineer
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Daniel Behrens, Technical Marketing Engineer

Daniel Behrens is a Technical Marketing Engineer in Cisco’s Internet of Things Connectivity business unit which develops switching, routing, wireless and security products for industrial applications. Prior to his current position, Dan spent over 3 years in various sales roles at Ciscoassisting organizations to develop end to end architectures for both IT and OT applications. Before joining Cisco, Dan […]

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How Do We Enhance Trust in Connected Things?
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How Do We Enhance Trust in Connected Things?

Is technology advancing and evolving faster than our collective mindset? It’s an interesting thought, and perhaps easy to confirm when you start considering connectivity. Today, we have the Internet of Things, and we enjoy the hyper-connectivity it provides if only we can get ourselves to trust it. Our security technology is lagging behind, so how […]

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Edge Computing Benefits – Key Drivers for Smart Manufacturing
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Edge Computing Benefits – Key Drivers for Smart Manufacturing

Edge computing has many beenefits; it means faster response times, increased reliability and security. A lot has been said about how the Internet of Things ( IoT ) is revolutionizing the manufacturing world. Many studies have already predicted more than 50 billion devices will be connected by 2020. It is also expected over 1.44 billion data […]

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Sudhir Arni, VP, Manufacturing Transformation
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Sudhir Arni, VP, Manufacturing Transformation

Sudhir is Vice President of Manufacturing Transformation at Sight Machine, category leader for AI in Manufacturing and manufacturing analytics. In this role Sudhir leads a team of transformation leaders responsible for on-boarding all new customers and customer success managers who ensure adoption of Sight Machine technology across the global enterprise customer base enabling business expansion […]

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New business models for manufacturers
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New business models for manufacturers

The convergence of Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) systems may help manufacturers embrace new service offerings using web-based business models. Many years ago one of my distributor partners took me to do an automation demo for a very large industrial OEM. Afterward we went into a stockroom, where she noted on a clipboard […]

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Legal Issues in Smart Manufacturing
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Legal Issues in Smart Manufacturing

Two lawyers walk into a smart manufacturing conference. Sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, right? Well, no, actually, it was the reality last month when lawyers Matt Pollins, partner and head of commercial/TMT at legal firm CMS Singapore, and Wong Hong Boon, manufacturing and supply chain legal counsel at 3M Singapore, joined a […]

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The railway predictive maintenance and the enabling role of the Internet of Things
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The railway predictive maintenance and the enabling role of the Internet of Things

The availability of innovative technologies and the huge amount of data are the key factors able to revolutionizing maintenance in the 21st century. Leveraging deep engineering knowledge and data analytics capabilities, analysis of this data can be utilized to predict component failures and carry out root cause analysis when failures do occur, supporting continuous improving […]

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How to Build an Industrial IoT Project Without the Cloud
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How to Build an Industrial IoT Project Without the Cloud

Contrary to what you might think, you don’t need cloud providers or platforms to run your enterprise IoT project. In fact, it might be to your advantage to just stick to edge computing. If you’re considering an industrial Internet of Things (IoT) project then you’re probably wondering how to integrate it with the cloud. After […]

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Binary randomization makes large-scale vulnerability exploitation nearly impossible
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Binary randomization makes large-scale vulnerability exploitation nearly impossible

One of the main reasons cyber risk continues to increase exponentially is due to the rapid expansion of attack surfaces – the places where software programs are vulnerable to attack or probe by an adversary. Attack surfaces, according to the SANS Institute, can include any part of a company’s infrastructure that exposes its networks and systems […]

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