Maximizing Business and Operational Resilience Through Services
The digital transformation era is impacting all industries as organizations are leveraging technology to drive new innovation, improve business agility, and streamline operations. IDC recognizes that forward-thinking organizations understand the connection between the optimization of their facility and…
Ten benefits/advantages of IIoT and analytics for manufacturers
Today’s manufacturers must operate at breakneck speed to keep pace with ever-changing customer demands, market trends and global competitors in a rapidly evolving marketplace. Yet many traditional challenges, such as increasing costs, unplanned downtime, quality control…
Demystifying IIoT Implementation
Many industrial businesses today see IIoT as a solution to the 21st century business issues they face. There’s ever-increasing pressure from shareholders for better financial results, to generate greater returns on the considerable amount of capital…
Smart Manufacturing: Cloud vs. Edge Computing
There are an endless number of buzzwords in the technology industry at any given moment. We’ve all heard more than enough about the Cloud, the Edge and the Internet of Things (IoT) for the past several…
How Infrared Video and 3D Lidar Technologies Can Help Flatten the Coronavirus Infection Curve
The COVID-19 coronavirus and the human suffering it has wrought are rapidly changing the way we live and work. In the near term, staying at home and practicing social distancing are vital to ‘flattening the curve’. We…
The Digital Restoration of Our Lives
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is key to getting the global economy, and our lives, back on track Preventive measures implemented by countries worldwide to halt the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in its tracks are forcing us to…
The 14 IIoT Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
The industrial internet of things (IIoT) has completely changed the competitive landscape for manufacturers. It is ushering in entirely new ways of thinking about every business process from product design, engineering and manufacturing to maintenance and asset management—not…
Critical Upgrade for Industry 4.0: Analytics That Matter
For the last fourteen years, LNS Research and its predecessors published bi-annual research in partnership with MESA Manufacturing on the use of data in manufacturing. Until 2018, the research was titled, “Metrics That Matter.” Starting with…
Public Bathrooms and the Future of Power
It’s hard to imagine public bathrooms – those at airports, sports venues, and casinos – as hubs of innovation. But that’s exactly what they are. Truth be told, I didn’t care about these bathrooms before I joined…
Remote connectivity for customer operations during COVID-19 crisis
“During the COVID-19 crisis, governments and companies are having to make difficult choices, balancing people’s safety with economic livelihood. ABB is committed to supporting both: protect people, while helping businesses to stay operational during these challenging…