Manufacturers Realize that they Need to Begin Implementing Smart Manufacturing on the Shop Floor
United States manufacturers are at an important crossroads for innovation. Technology is accelerating at an incredible pace and mid-sized manufacturers must modernize operations to stay competitive. Real-time actionable data from machines is the most valuable ‘currency’…
4 Steps to Building a Digital Factory
Manufacturers, from automotive to electronics, recognize the need to evolve their factories into flexible, customer-centric operations. The benefits are too strong to ignore. Once digitally transformed, factories can bring information technology (IT) and operations technology (OT)…
Smart Factory initiatives – main driver of manufacturing competitiveness
Smart Factory initiatives – main driver of manufacturing competitiveness Smart Factory is a concept until recently considered futuristic, but now translated into reality by the existing technologies on the market. Relying on cybernetic systems that communicate with each…
What is the Hidden Factory and how to reveal one?
What is the Hidden Factory? The Hidden Factory is a concept that refers to the unseen, or hidden, parts of a manufacturing process that result in quality issues or decrease the efficiency of the operation. What’s…
The Way Forward: A Practical Guide to Achieving IT/OT Convergence
Modern enterprises are faced with pressures for accelerated digitalization while effectively using data from and across their systems. Attend this session to watch a live demo led by industry experts and see how IT/OT data systems…
What could the future of industrial communications look like?
The world of industrial communications is moving forward faster than ever before, with breakthrough technologies quickly taking shape and providing unmatched capabilities as well as performance. These developments are helping to create flexible, responsive, and simplified…
Making the transition to the smart factory: Areas for consideration
IIoT technologies are driving the manufacturing industry to modernize its software infrastructure to create smart factories. A key motivation in this push to modernize is that real-time data and dynamic decision-making yield meaningful performance improvements for…
Manufacturing: How are AI applications at the edge evolving
AI application at the edge is growing rapidly with 80% of enterprise IoT projects projected to incorporate AI by 2022. According to GSMA Intelligence, it’s also estimated that the AI in the Internet of Things (IoT)…
The Cost Reducing & Quality Enhancing Realities of AR/VR In Automotive Manufacturing
With AR and VR technologies growing at a rapid pace and revolutionizing the modern age, it stands to reason why auto manufacturers have become one of the largest investors. Since first introduced back in the 1990s,…
Good Data Drives Cloud Computing In Manufacturing
Cloud adoption has risen rapidly over the past 10 years, with 92% of enterprise business strategies now relying on the cloud, according to an IDG survey. The manufacturing industry, in particular, is almost as high at…