Where gas and data flow

Equinor’s LNG facility on Norway’s Melkøya Island cools natural gas from the Barents Sea to minus 160 degrees Celsius, fills it into special tanks, and delivers it to ports around the world. To do this work,…

New business opportunities using IIoT and analytics

New business opportunities using IIoT and analytics

New business opportunities for IIoT Today, manufacturers around the world are seeking new ways to meet market needs, improve products, optimize operations, increase revenues, and reduce costs and risk. Automation, digitalization, and the adoption of IIoT…

Four Considerations for Manufacturing with the IIoT

Four Considerations for Manufacturing with the IIoT

With global spending on IIoT expected to reach $745 billion in 2019, industries continue to gear up for Industry 4.0.  According to International Data Group (IDC), that number represents an increase of over 15% from 2018, and double-digit…

The Five Phases of Successful IIoT Implementation

The Five Phases of Successful IIoT Implementation

The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the way we live. Having become ubiquitous in the consumer economy, IoT is now emerging as a force in every industry including manufacturing, energy utilities, healthcare, transportation and building…

Discovering Applications and Potential of The Internet of Things

Discovering Applications and Potential of The Internet of Things

We have entered a new era of scientific breakthroughs and technological applications that will change life as we know it. Accelerated technological development is transforming our civilization. The pace of innovation is growing so rapidly that…

Who’s really running your industrial IoT project?

Who’s really running your industrial IoT project?

Who’s in charge? Is it the engineering manager selecting building blocks for putting the platform together? Could it be the IT leader preparing data lakes for absorbing the output of analog machines into the digital domain?…

Pursuing the digital transformation of Middle East industry

Pursuing the digital transformation of Middle East industry

Industrialization has long been a central pillar of global economic development. Industrialized economies are strong, stable, resilient, highly skilled and globally competitive. It’s no surprise then that Middle Eastern countries have set their sights on industrialization…

A Cloud Based Alternative to Traditional SCADA

What is SCADA?  Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems have been in existence three decades and have long been considered the de facto method for interfacing with PLCs and providing alarming, logging, trending, and operator…

Leading Vendors in MachNation’s 2019 IoT Edge ScoreCard

Leading Vendors in MachNation’s 2019 IoT Edge ScoreCard

Edge platforms are beginning to play a vital role in the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem. Businesses deploying IoT solutions recognize that many optimally designed IoT solutions, especially those in the industrial vertical, take advantage of…

How to Make Sense of Machine Data in Smart Factory 101

How to Make Sense of Machine Data in Smart Factory 101

“Digital transformation” and “smart factory” are the terms that have been around for a while, but only advanced manufacturers apply them to practice. The idea of machine to machine communication has raised the initial excitement and…