Smart Manufacturing
How AI Drives Sustainability In The Manufacturing Industry?
It starts to become clearer and clearer the connection between artificial intelligence and sustainability. AI is on its way to help the world become more sustainable and that is no different for the manufacturing industry. Necessarily,…
Heavy machines need heavy-duty maintenance schedules
It’s time to plan around unplanned downtime. From mine sites in Siberia to sugarcane plantations in central Uganda, worksites rely on heavy machines to be the workhorses that drive productivity. For the most part, the machines…
The 3 Best Use Cases of IoT in Manufacturing
The Internet of things has been highly beneficial in the manufacturing industry. IoT enables manufacturers to scale up equipment capable of noticing and servicing, allowing the industries to estimate correctly how the equipment is being used.…
5G in the manufacturing world
Manufacturing will be the sector that more than others will benefit from 5G, which will allow not only a reduction in production costs, reducing downtime, waste of resources and maintenance needs, but also new solutions that…
What Role Does Industrial IoT Play in Bringing IT and OT Closer Together?
IT and OT systems developed on different tracks because they did different things. Where IT was based on data that could be used at the factory floor level and was often utilized, OT was designed to…
Industrial IoT Startups to meet at Web Summit 2021
I have always been fascinated by innovation and startups power. I found about the Alpha startups program offered by Web Summit only in 2018. Some of these IoT startups have evolved quite a lot since then.…
How to achieve Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) using Real-time Maintenance (RtM)
What if your production equipment was always available as planned? What if your cycle time was never compromised because of a damaged machine? What if your production equipment self-detected and alerted you of quality defects? Applying…
Five Challenges of Digital Transformation in Manufacturing
Despite the new urgency within the manufacturing sector, there are still IIoT challenges for adopters to overcome, especially related to digital transformation in manufacturing. Five Challenges of Digital Transformation in Manufacturing Capital Expenditure While small and…
How to solve file-based dependency in Manufacturing
Ever since I started my engineering career in the mid-90’s, one of the least appreciated pain points I’ve experienced is the problem with files. As a product moves through the lifecycle, product information passes from engineering…
Manufacturing Analytics: What it is and top use cases
With the arrival of Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), a digital transformation is currently underway. The manufacturing industry is beginning to use industrial analytics driven by real-time production data, not only to…
MQTT and Sparkplug: Delivering Plug-and-Play Interoperability for IIoT
The manufacturing industry is rapidly changing as leading companies invest in new technologies to modernize their manufacturing infrastructures, improve overall efficiencies, and develop more flexible manufacturing processes. The introduction of IIoT technologies, combined with machine learning,…
Manufacturing Optimization – The Paradigm Shift to A Smarter System
There is no sitting on the fence with manufacturing transformation in a post Covid-19 world, the value of smart manufacturing takes on an added dimension. In this unexampled signal of the pandemic most of the organizations…