You don’t have to agree with environmental policies to know that sustainability is a part of business and life today. Supply chain partners, regulators, customers, and investors are demanding more environmental accountability from manufacturers—and with good cause. According to the International Energy Agency, the manufacturing and power sectors account for 63% of energy-related CO2 emissions […]
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In a recent interview, Janine Charlton, SVP and CTO of Merchants Fleet, discussed the company’s vision and impact of digital transformation on the fleet industry. Merchants Fleet provides Fleet Management and Fleet leasing solutions to large businesses, mid-sized companies, governments, educational institutions, and more for over 60 years. Their vision is to enable the movement […]
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In industrial settings, supervisory and data acquisition applications have long consumed data from various endpoints such as sensors, PLCs, and RTUs. What is changing is how these applications are increasingly becoming cloud-native, allowing for greater ease of deployment and lifecycle management. The connectivity network between edge applications and endpoints is also changing. Traditionally, the network […]
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Should AI research stop even temporarily? In my view, no, as AI is the response of humanity to a global society and physical world of ever-increasing complexity. As the physical and social complexity increases processes are very deep and seem relentless, AI and citizen morphosis are our only hope to have a smooth transition from […]
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DataOps is a new category of software solutions that address the data architecture needs of industrial companies as they adopt Industry 4.0, Digital Transformation, and Smart Manufacturing. DataOps solutions perform data contextualization and standardization and provide secure data flow to the various consuming applications running at the Edge, in on-premises data centers, or in the […]
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QBE AcceliCITY Resilience Challenge Opens Applications April 1-30th Leading Cities is pleased to announce the launch of the 2023 QBE AcceliCITY Resilience Challenge in partnership with QBE for the fifth consecutive year. The global competition, ranked among the top 5 GovTech accelerators in the world, accelerates the growth of start-up companies transforming cities worldwide. “Following […]
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Predictive maintenance has become a standard phrase in the equipment business and it is taking hold with OEMs. However, maintenance teams are not seeing much use for it. For them, “predictive maintenance is like chasing one’s own tail” – a perspective we’re increasingly hearing from manufacturing leaders for whom the inability to scale and the […]
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Following on from the first part of this article entitled, ‘Readying Industrial IoT Networks for Today’s Security Challenges’, which reviews the standardized way to approach security, this article goes through ways to protect against new and emerging threats. Protecting our valuables The complexity of industrial systems rises yearly, with machine learning (ML) algorithms being deployed […]
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Cyber attacks can often seem like the opening scene of a science fiction movie. The mouse pointer starts gliding across a screen with purpose. A technician, looking up to review data on their monitor, sits motionless, frozen through the shock of what they are seeing. Is this a prank? Then, one by one, ransom demands […]
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The average amount of capital raised by IoT startups in 2022 reached the highest point in over a decade, according to new research by Avnet Abacus, despite a 22% drop in total funding within the sector and an overall 35% decline in venture capital markets. IoT companies raising funds in 2022 pulled in $15.9m on average, up […]
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Data lakes are becoming increasingly popular as companies accumulate vast amounts of data, both structured and unstructured. These are the questions and their corresponding answers after Hitachi Vantara’s session on Data Lakes during the All Things IIoT Day. What are some examples of Unstructured time series data? Video is one type. With CV techniques, anomalies […]
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