Anton van der Merwe, Partner
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Anton van der Merwe, Partner

Anton specializes in costing and decision support system design and implementation and has published and spoken widely on these topics. His Management Accounting Philosophy and the Debating the Principles articles led to the global adoption of a set of principles for the use of financial information in internal decision making. He served on the International Federation […]

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Christoph Inauen, VP of Strategy
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Christoph Inauen, VP of Strategy

Christoph Inauen is an International Business Executive who has demonstrated the ability to position technology and Cloud SW solutions to influence business outcomes in highly competitive industries and fast-paced environments. He acquired his knowledge through roles in business development, solution creation, product and partner management, as well as strategy over the past 25 years in […]

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Stephen Mellor, CTO, IIC
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Stephen Mellor, CTO, IIC

Stephen Mellor is the Chief Technical Officer for the Industrial Internet Consortium, where he directs the standards requirements and technology & security priorities for the Industrial Internet. In that role, he coordinates the activities of the several engineering, architecture, security and testbed working groups and teams. He also co-chairs both the Definitions, Taxonomy and Reference […]

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ABB highlights at Hannover Messe 2019 – Day 2
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ABB highlights at Hannover Messe 2019 – Day 2

This year at Hannover Messe, ABB is streamlined into four entrepreneurial businesses: Electrification, Industrial Automation, Motion, and Robotics & Discrete Automation. As our main focus is IIoT, “the factory of the future” is clearly one of the topics we want to know more about. ABB’s “factory of the future” features at Hannover Messe a model […]

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Our Picks from Hannover Messe 2019 – Day 1. What’s next on our agenda?
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Our Picks from Hannover Messe 2019 – Day 1. What’s next on our agenda?

It seems that 2019 is truly the year for Digital Transformation, as almost all of the announcements/sessions we heard today were about Industrial IoT and Industrial cybersecurity. We might be biased as our focus is 100% on IIoT. Here is what we found out today at Hannover Messe: The purpose of Azure Security Center for […]

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Real-Time Data for Real-World Decisions
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Real-Time Data for Real-World Decisions

Manufacturing relies on continuous production. Fast, accurate, real-time analytical insights are intuitively recognized as valuable. Many decisions must be made in real-time, so having real-time data will naturally improve those decisions. Actionable, up-to-date metrics create many new benefits, including: Improved OEE and Predictive Maintenance: With real-time equipment analysis based on the most up-to-date data, maintenance […]

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Liisa Parv, Marketing Manager
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Liisa Parv, Marketing Manager

Liisa is part of the management team at Eliko, an electronics and software development company. Eliko offers custom products for a range of industries in precise positioning, motion capture and machine vision technologies. She brings a customer-centric view on Industrial IoT with a focus on bridging the gap between the technology industry and manufacturing. Liisa […]

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Ian Fountain, Director of Marketing
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Ian Fountain, Director of Marketing

As the director of marketing for Industrial IoT at National Instruments, Ian Fountain is responsible for the company’s global business in monitoring and Industrial Internet of Things applications and is heavily involved in the strategic development of the associated products required to address customer’s needs. Fountain joined NI in 2000 as an applications engineer. In […]

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Justin Hester, Digital Transformation Director
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Justin Hester, Digital Transformation Director

Justin is a Digital Transformation Director at PTC where he is responsible for helping organizations realize value with their digital transformation journeys. Prior to joining PTC, he was a Manager at HIROTEC Corporation’s Advanced Engineering Center, where he led a global team responsible for creating and executing HIROTEC’s digital transformation for both their Tier 1 automotive production […]

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Ed Amoroso, CEO
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Ed Amoroso, CEO

Ed Amoroso is CEO of TAG Cyber, a global cyber security advisory, training, consulting, and media services company supporting major organizations across the world. Ed recently retired from AT&T, beginning his career in Unix security at Bell Labs and culminating as SVP/CSO from 2004 to 2016. He was elected AT&T Fellow in 2010. Ed has […]

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Missteps to Avoid When Implementing Digital Transformation Strategy
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Missteps to Avoid When Implementing Digital Transformation Strategy

Implementing digital transformation strategy presents many challenges.  These can range from having to manage massive revamping of business and work processes to implementing completely new models for customer engagement. Some challenges are understood but still difficult, such as dealing with legacy technology and infrastructure. Many other challenges of digital transformation simply can’t be foreseen, yet […]

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What is eXtended Reality and how does it help workers?
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What is eXtended Reality and how does it help workers?

Through all the industrial revolutions, tools and machines have been central to workers’ realities. But it is only recently that large portions of a worker’s reality could be digitized with IoT devices and approaches. In 2015, Henning Kagermann, former CEO of SAP AG, argued that this “digitization—the continuing convergence of the real and the virtual […]

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