Edge Computing – Insights from the Factory Floor
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Edge Computing – Insights from the Factory Floor

The industrial IoT (IIoT) is a relatively new concept for many industrial companies and manufacturers, but FogHorn Systems has been leading the development and implementation of IIoT with a pioneering approach to edge computing and analytics since 2014. This means a lot of time spent with customers and end users, understanding their industrial domains and […]

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CEO Insights: As plants get smarter, manufacturers need to “watch the robots”
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CEO Insights: As plants get smarter, manufacturers need to “watch the robots”

Using digitization to improve how things get done has boosted revenue by reducing downtime in connected factories. The ability to immediately analyze and respond to process upsets, and the possibility to more accurately conduct scheduled maintenance help manufacturers to save money and to increase productivity. As more plants become smarter, manufacturers need a solution “to […]

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Medication management for patients through IoT-enabled smart pillboxes
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Medication management for patients through IoT-enabled smart pillboxes

Wisepill Technologies and Aeris recently announced that they are collaborating to help pharmaceutical businesses and healthcare organizations around the world to improve medication management for their patients through IoT-enabled smart pillboxes. Unlike many reminder systems on the market that nag users to take their medicine, the Wisepill system was created to remind users only when […]

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Derek Harp, Founder and Chairman
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Derek Harp, Founder and Chairman

Derek Harp is an industry leader in Industrial Control System cyber security and he has worked tirelessly to educate and guide companies in their journey to achieving cyber resilience. Mr. Harp is the founder and Chairman of Control System Cyber Security Association International (CS2AI), a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting local practitioner peer groups around […]

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Process Monitoring in the Automotive Industry
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Process Monitoring in the Automotive Industry

The Internet of Things (IoT) has become inescapable in reports related to IT. Each individual device on the IoT is identified by an individual Internet address, can access through the Internet and can interact with connected information systems. More and more devices are everyday connected to the Internet. According to the latest Gartner study, this […]

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IIoT’s Immense Entrepreneurial Opportunities
· Digital Disruption

IIoT’s Immense Entrepreneurial Opportunities

The optimistic temperament of successful entrepreneurship is what has tremendously shaped and revolutionized our world today. Our present world as it still unfolds is the direct results of the incredible vision, the extremely indefatigable beliefs and inconceivable risks implementations of past entrepreneurs. From Thomas Edison to Andrew Carnegie to Henry Ford, to Bill Gates and […]

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Managing Industrial IoT Edge Devices
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Managing Industrial IoT Edge Devices

If you ask end users about factors that impede the Industrial IoT the #1 factor is usually cybersecurity and the second is manageability. Drill down on what they mean by “manageability” and this expands to “remote device management” or “remote system management”. And without saying so they also mean “management at scale”. This is not […]

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Smart cities using Internet of Things Solutions
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Smart cities using Internet of Things Solutions

Cities around the world are getting “smarter” everyday through the implementation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. “What exactly does it mean for a city to get smarter?” you ask. According to Kate Meis of Green Biz, “Smart cities are communities that are building infrastructure to continuously improve the collection, aggregation and use of data to improve the lives […]

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Digital Transformation in Manufacturing from a Network Visualization Viewpoint
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Digital Transformation in Manufacturing from a Network Visualization Viewpoint

A smart, connected enterprise can embrace the digital transformation in the coming Internet of Things (IoT) world. Manufacturers must adopt technologies that transform operating models and allow for digital connections of processes, events, actions, internal workers and external partners. This transformation will allow manufacturers greater agility and flexibility for regional or global production. It appears manufacturing executives […]

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Five areas Internet of Things can improve air travel
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Five areas Internet of Things can improve air travel

In an era where customer service can make or break an airport’s reputation, the Internet of Things provides a strategy for success. Flight delays alone will cost commercial aviation an anticipated $20 billion by 2020, and aviation must find ways to make up for these losses. “Smart airports” that employ the latest IoT technology can radically […]

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Defining the term “IIoT Network Edge”
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Defining the term “IIoT Network Edge”

Last week’s release of the Industrial Internet Consortium’s Industrial Internet Vocabulary Technical Report V2.0 coincided with renewed discussion on ARC’s Industrial Internet of Things LinkedIn page concerning the definition of the IIoT network edge. After a dutiful search of the new release in hope of floating an “official” definition of this oft-cited term, the only reference I was able […]

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Manufacturing Trends: Six in Ten Manufacturers Will Have Fully Connected Factories by 2022
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Manufacturing Trends: Six in Ten Manufacturers Will Have Fully Connected Factories by 2022

Zebra Technologies Corporation published the results of the Zebra’s 2017 Manufacturing Vision Study, a body of research analyzing the emerging manufacturing trends shaping the future of connected factories. The global study revealed manufacturers are adopting the IIoT to enhance visibility and improve quality. Driven by globalization, intensifying competition and rising customer demand for more options and higher […]

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