Industrial and ICS Cybersecurity is a hot topic in the IoT context. Recent market research shows, IoT Devices of nearly 80% of manufacturing organizations experienced a cyberattack, costing $300K on average. Cybersecurity has also been slowing IoT adoption in the industrial sector. Today, many questions around IIoT Security are routinely raised by business leaders and […]
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Six months on, the coronavirus pandemic is still raging. As companies look for technologies to alleviate the impact, one frontrunner has proven Artificial Intelligence (AI). Lucian Fogoros, Co-founder of IIoT World, explains how AI & Automation will shape the New Normal. Read more here https://sie.ag/2HE26VL.
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IIoT is driving the manufacturing industry to modernize its software infrastructure. Whether you call it Industry 4.0 or the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), manufacturing is in the midst of a significant transformation. A key motivation in this push to modernize is that real-time data and dynamic decision making yield meaningful performance improvements for businesses. […]
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Making a factory smart means taking advantage of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) – technologies that collect and centralize mass amounts of machine data gathered from industrial environments and create value from that data. Solutions built on IIoT platforms collect, aggregate, analyze, and provide insight to enable you to quickly act on the data to boost operational efficiency and […]
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The past five to ten years brought dramatic advances in sophisticated global supply networks. The latest generation of end-to-end supply chains were designed for “pull” rather than “push,” enabling the high efficiencies. Entire value streams now operate with advanced software and are governed by “control towers,” which continuously optimize the supply-production-distribution flow. The result: significant […]
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Onalytica has been creating Top 100 Influencer lists for the past ten years, connecting brands with influencer communities. The marketplace is now looking to understand who is influential beyond Twitter social amplifiers. Today’s Who’s Who report ranks top IIoT Influencers & Social Amplifiers, Brand Employees, Analysts, Journalists, Academics & Researchers. Also, the report ranks Key Opinion […]
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An Executive Order from US President Donald Trump in May this year overhauled the backbone of the nation’s electricity infrastructure, highlighting gaps and vulnerabilities in the operations of power systems and bulk power equipment, to attacks by hackers, terrorists and other state adversaries. So, what can be done to secure the US power grid? The […]
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There is no stopping an asset from getting older… …and aging plant assets can create a number of challenges for industrial organizations: Frequent breakdowns Disruption Decreasing efficiency According to the former CEO of Factora, Charles A. Horth in an article published in Industry Week: “three categories of business drivers should drive IIoT decisions: Pain: What […]
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Nearly 75% of companies have committed to the digital transformation journey, but only 25% have reached more mature levels (see IDC MaturityScape: The Future Enterprise, April 2019). These figures confirm that the digital transformation journey can be difficult, but failing to undertake the initiative can have dire consequences. Recently, Schneider Electric partnered with IDC, a global […]
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To keep up in the ultra-competitive industrial landscape, organizations must decide: replace assets altogether, or modernize them to limit the impact of aging. Industrial IoT is one solution to modernize your assets. Replace For most industrial organizations, replacing assets with state of the art machinery is not an option. While this modern machinery will deliver better […]
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Existing maintenance solutions limit production. With the legacy tools and processes at their disposal, manufacturers commonly take reactive or scheduled maintenance approaches that present a multitude of challenges: Existing Maintenance approaches are costly: Up to $1.3M per hour cost of downtime in auto manufacturing (Source: PTC) 10x cost of unplanned downtime compared to planned (Source: ARC Advisory […]
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For many years, industrial control systems—often called “Operational Technology” or OT—have been relatively safe from cyber attacks. The control and telemetry systems used in industrial plants and manufacturing environments were typically placed on isolated or “air gapped” communication networks, and the systems themselves were based on highly specialized operating systems which were difficult to attack […]
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