Machine Monitoring: Your first step in Industrial IoT

Machine Monitoring: Your first step in Industrial IoT

The first step in adopting Industrial IoT is Machine Monitoring Industrial IoT is the wave of the future for manufacturing. Why? Because the goal in any plant or on any factory floor is to reduce costs to…

Implementing Predictive Analytics Outside the Factory Floor

Implementing Predictive Analytics Outside the Factory Floor

A growing number of manufacturers, particularly those with large global footprints and complicated supply chains, have realized the power of predictive analytics. However, many are not taking advantage of this technology for larger, strategic decisions. Some…

MachineMetrics Announces $11.3 Million Series A Funding Round

MachineMetrics Announces $11.3 Million Series A Funding Round

MachineMetrics, which equips factories with the digital tools needed to increase productivity and win more business, announced this week it has raised $11.3 million in Series A financing. Tola Capital led the round with participation from existing…

The actual cost of downtime in the manufacturing industry

The actual cost of downtime in the manufacturing industry

For most manufacturers, downtime is the single largest source of lost production time. What is Downtime in Manufacturing? Downtime in manufacturing is any period of time when a machine is not in production (quite literally, down).…

Tracking Industrial Assets for Better Business Decisions

Tracking Industrial Assets for Better Business Decisions

While Industrial IoT continues to mature, many customers are hesitant to share project details for obvious competitive reasons.  As an alternative, it can be useful to look at potential use cases to see how IoT can…

Machine Learning is the New Jake

Machine Learning is the New Jake

Everyone in, and serving, manufacturing businesses has encountered terms such as Industry 4.0, Digital Transformation, and Smart Factory. Small compute footprints, low-cost, high-availability communication systems, high-capacity–low-cost memory, rapidly evolving sensor technology, and new time-series data structures…

The Power of Pattern Learning for Industrial Operations

The Power of Pattern Learning for Industrial Operations

The next industrial revolution is here. Whether you call it Industry 4.0 or Industrial IoT or Digital Transformation, the increased access to machine and operational data, proliferation of two-way communication, speed of data flow, combined with…