Industrial IoT
Can IIoT help address food and beverage manufacturing challenges?
IIoT and Smart Manufacturing technologies help food and beverage manufacturers address complex operational challenges including traceability, clean-in-place processes, serialization, and mislabeled product detection. By converging operations technology (OT) with information technology (IT), manufacturers gain real-time visibility,…
Creating Value with Industrial IoT
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) creates value for industrial companies in two measurable ways: generating new categories of jobs and opening new revenue streams. IIoT adoption drives demand for data scientists, robotics experts, and field…
How IIoT enables the factory of the future
Trillion-dollar projections on the expanding size of the market are urging companies to capitalize on the Industrial IoT (IIoT). For many, however, it remains unclear how factories should apply IIoT to begin making the hyper-efficient and…
Data management & system integration – two reasons why Industrial IoT projects fail
Poor data management and system integration are the leading causes of Industrial IoT project failure, according to Marc Phillips, Director of Marketing. A real-world example involving Audi and Volkswagen illustrates how duplicate device identifiers, such as…
Implementing Artificial Intelligence Solutions: Are Your Operations Ready?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is more than a buzzword: it is a technology that requires deliberate preparation before deployment. According to Usman Shuja, General Manager Industrial IoT at SparkCognition, companies must first identify a measurable problem, secure…
Case Study: How video could save warehouses 46 million dollars per year
Why Is Warehouse Inventory Tracking So Difficult? A large US poultry producer faced up to $46 million in annual warehouse inventory losses across 23 maintenance storage facilities. The company deployed IVC high-definition IP cameras and Longwatch…
Five benefits of network virtualization
New challenges and technologies such as virtualization are disrupting networks everywhere, with many businesses struggling to remain agile. What is network virtualization? Network virtualization is the process of combining hardware and software network resources and network…
The cost of one minute downtime in manufacturing
Unplanned work stoppages cost global industries millions of dollars in lost revenue. Downtime can be caused for multiple reasons. Examples can be weather delays in airline companies or cyber crime which lead to infrastructure breakdowns. Susceptibility…
IIoT Impact on Asset Performance Management
IoT is reshaping asset performance management (APM), with leading suppliers such as GE Digital, Siemens, and AspenTech treating APM as the primary entry point to IIoT adoption. The link between APM and IIoT has driven supplier…
What Data Science Actually Means To Manufacturing
Data science in manufacturing addresses three core areas: predictive equipment maintenance, product design optimization, and consumer-driven quality improvement. According to the Veritas Global Databerg report, 85% of stored data is dark, redundant, obsolete, or trivial. Kudzai…
The Indubitable Role of Entrepreneurship in Smart Infrastructure
Smart Infrastructure, the integration of physical systems such as Transport, Energy, and Telecommunications with digital technologies such as Sensors, Big Data, and the Internet of Things, represents a global opportunity worth between £2 trillion and £4.8…
Who owns the Machine Generated Data in IoT – Men or Machine?
The data which is acquired by sensors is essentially Machine Generated Data (MGD). This post will dwell on the subject of data ownership of MGD as follows: Sensors (Data Acquisition and Communication) Machine Generated Data The…