How Much Will Automation Affect the Jobs Market in the US?
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How Much Will Automation Affect the Jobs Market in the US?

Automation is creating a real buzz in multiple arenas. From robotics to warehousing, automation is the order of the day. Many people believe it will also real issues by dramatically impacting our ability to make a living. With robots replacing laborers in manufacturing vehicles and artificial intelligence (AI) many people believe that the AI and […]

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Bill McCabe, Company Owner
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Bill McCabe, Company Owner

Bill McCabe is the company owner of SoftNet Search Partners LLC.  He spent his early career as a CPA with a major accounting firm. What he learned from accounting is that he didn’t want to spend his whole life doing it. That knowledge engendered a change of address from the accounting firm to a marketing and public […]

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Platforms for Applications and the Internet of Things
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Platforms for Applications and the Internet of Things

Platforms for applications and the Internet of Things (IoT) are appearing in the solution portfolio of many software and automation suppliers.  Each company has its own rationale for offering a platform, but the underlying reason is that the need for these companies to move to an efficient, modern application development and deployment environment. Industrial Internet […]

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Nine challenges of Industry 4.0

“We must develop a comprehensive and globally shared view of how technology is affecting our lives and reshaping our economic, social, cultural, and human environments. There has never been a time of greater promise, or greater peril.” — Klaus Schwab We are in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution, or Industry 4.0 as its more commonly […]

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Mustapha Zaouini, Co-founder
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Mustapha Zaouini, Co-founder

Co-Founder at fliptin (Startup Studio) Chairman at Soulstice Consulting Board Member at MAGIC Cooperative (Management Applied Green Initiatives and Concepts Cooperative). Director At Hippocorn Africa Tech Entrepreneur, Investor, Leading Executive specializing in growth strategies & new emerging markets development (Africa & Middle East). With over 22 years of experience across a range of demanding roles […]

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Industrial Robots Gone Rogue: Staying Ahead of Robot Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities
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Industrial Robots Gone Rogue: Staying Ahead of Robot Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities

If you’re following industrial cyber security trends you know that industrial networks, endpoints and control systems typically have inherent weaknesses that make them insecure and vulnerable to compromise through digital methods. With 5.6 million newly connected devices added per day in 2016 and an estimated 21 billion online by 2020, these current growth trends only […]

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CEO Insights: Top cybersecurity challenges in the healthcare industry
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CEO Insights: Top cybersecurity challenges in the healthcare industry

Cybersecurity is a big concern for the healthcare industry executives. Some healthcare organizations learned that the cost of a major cyber incident can include not only financial loss, but significant disruption to operations and reputational harm.  Ofer Amitai, CEO & Co-Founder at Portnox, answers to our Managing Editor’s questions about the biggest cybersecurity challenges in the […]

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Minimizing Manufacturing Downtime
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Minimizing Manufacturing Downtime

Every year manufacturers worldwide lose billions of dollars due to disruptions and failures of automated production lines. Tangible costs include the loss of production, capacity, direct labor, inventory, and product.  Intangible costs are the ripple effect of these losses and may include diminished responsiveness to customer and market demands, decreased customer goodwill, increased machine and […]

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Methods to Maximize Network Uptime in the Internet of Things Era
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Methods to Maximize Network Uptime in the Internet of Things Era

The next few years will be highly challenging for network administration professionals. We are looking at huge changes that will impact how things have always been performed. The future of your company and the way you network has several big themes: virtualization, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, and quick network reorganization on demand, among […]

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Industrial Cyber Security: Why IT & OT collaboration is no longer an option but a necessity
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Industrial Cyber Security: Why IT & OT collaboration is no longer an option but a necessity

Since the mid-1990s, many industrial companies have interconnected their industrial control systems (ICSs) to improve productivity, maintenance, and safety in the operational environment. Some of this interconnectivity was to  the Internet.  While, this connectivity helped to improved the efficiency, security was at best a minimal consideration. The lack of adequate security planning has resulted in […]

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Mohannad Y. Salam, CEO
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Mohannad Y. Salam, CEO

The blend between software architecture, team leadership, project management, entrepreneurial ambitions and skills along with senior strategic planning allowed me successfully to handle various executive & management roles among which was lately by “RUBICS” which is now among the leaders in MENA region providing Industrial Internet of Things solutions & services.

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