Take your company from reactive/proactive to predictive analytics
· Predictive Analytics

Take your company from reactive/proactive to predictive analytics

Big Data and cloud technology has provided organizations new ways to drive efficiency and productivity. Among companies recognized as industry leaders and innovators, Asset Optimization has become a trending initiative and is producing strong results for these adopters. So what is stopping other organizations from adopting Asset Optimization? The reasons vary across organizations but include […]

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Artificial Intelligence Opportunities: A More Intelligent Manufacturing Industry
· Smart Manufacturing

Artificial Intelligence Opportunities: A More Intelligent Manufacturing Industry

In a 2016 article from Business Insider, General Electric described what an ideal intelligent factory would look like. Their vision for the “Brilliant Factory,” as they called it, would start with automatic ordering based on detected customer need, and use 3D printing technologies to design, prototype, and test a new part in hours rather than  […]

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How machine builders can use IIoT platforms to unleash new business models
· Connected Industry

How machine builders can use IIoT platforms to unleash new business models

By 2025, experts expect that the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) will provide a $4.6 trillion opportunity for the world’s industrial operations to upgrade and add value to the global economy. This reflects the trend toward digitization just about everywhere, thanks to technology advancements. For OEMs & machine builders, the digitization trend coincides with industry’s […]

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Paul Hobcraft, Innovation Knowledge Advisor
· Our Contributors

Paul Hobcraft, Innovation Knowledge Advisor

Paul Hobcraft is valued for his consistency to champion and inform on innovation, increasingly focusing on technologies impact on this. A trusted “go to” resource that adds greater understanding around the management of innovation and its impact for others, those often ‘time-starved’ not able to ‘invest’ their time, who can seek out his suggestions, thoughts, […]

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Augmented Reality in the Transportation & Logistics Sector: Part 1
· Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality in the Transportation & Logistics Sector: Part 1

This is the first in a five-part series covering the impact of Augmented Reality on the transportation and logistics industry. The world’s logistics and transportation industry is changing fast – and is in need of solutions to a number of keys, pressing business issues. These include: a continuing demand for faster, cheaper and more ecologically […]

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The Data is Already Here, How to Unlock The Value of it?
· Digital Disruption

The Data is Already Here, How to Unlock The Value of it?

Many enterprises find early success at “proving the concept” of industrial IoT, but fail to realize monetary benefits from their investments. Providing value requires solutions that do more than extract data from machines in the field, store it in the cloud, and display it in an app – which is as far as most PoC […]

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Frost & Sullivan: The major challenges facing the IIoT solution market in 2018
· Connected Industry

Frost & Sullivan: The major challenges facing the IIoT solution market in 2018

A recent Frost & Sullivan research shows that the major challenge currently facing the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solution market is the inability of providers to offer one-stop- shop solutions. Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), such as pump, motor and variable frequency drives (VFD) companies, want to leverage IIoT and bundle their products with IIoT […]

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The Future is neither cloud nor Edge – it is both!
· Connected Industry

The Future is neither cloud nor Edge – it is both!

The cloud has transformed how we use technology. Of that there is no doubt. But as we have grown attuned to it for the IoT market, complexities arose. Once we moved past the exciting unicorn cases, practical issues reared their head. This has helped bring a renewed interest for the edge, where ever-more adept devices […]

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