Smart Manufacturing
5 Advantages of Adopting Assisted Reality in the Industrial Enterprise
Assisted reality is a subset of Augmented Reality in which workers see contextually relevant digital information through a hands-free display, without requiring content registered to specific objects. Industrial deployments at Boeing, General Electric, and The Coca-Cola…
The main issues with today’s Industrial Automation Sales Channel
Industrial manufacturers who rely on independent distributors to sell electrical, electronic, and hydraulic products face a sales channel in crisis. Distributor gross profit margins, which averaged 23 to 27% for many years, are falling. Faded product…
Values and Challenges of SCADA Systems for Outside-the-Fence Applications
Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems are designed for inside-the-fence manufacturing plants, where machinery is co-located with a central command center. Deploying these systems across remote, geographically dispersed assets introduces significant power, connectivity, and cost…
How Indoor Positioning Systems Can Improve Efficiency in Manufacturing?
Indoor positioning systems (IPS) give manufacturers real-time location data for assets, people, and processes on the shop floor. According to Liisa Parv, Marketing Manager at Eliko, an electronics and software development company, IPS addresses three core…
MIT: The Seven System Principles You Need to Know Before Implementing IIoT
Are you ready for IIoT/Industry 4.0? Industry 4.0 promises to offer significant advantages to manufacturing and operations according to MIT experts. It also provides the opportunity to repeat the same systemic errors that plagued the previous three.…
ADM show wrap up – IIoT & Predictive Maintenance
The inaugural Advanced Design and Manufacturing show & conference in Cleveland was a success according to Steven Carlisle, UBM's Senior Manager, Relationships & Partnerships. "We managed to hit our target attendance numbers in the first day…
How To Fast-Track A Successful IoT Manufacturing Project
To fast-track a successful IoT manufacturing project, Douglas Bellin, Senior Manager of Global Private Sector Industries at Cisco, recommends defining a clear end state, breaking it into incremental steps, and building security into the architecture from…
Four steps to make your maintenance program ready for the IIoT
IIot can reduce maintenance cost, increase asset availability, improve customer satisfaction, generate new service revenue. These are just a few of the benefits that many companies are hoping to get out from the Industrial Industrial Internet…
Be our guest at Advanced & Design Manufacturing Cleveland
Advanced Design and Manufacturing (ADM) Cleveland is less than one week away, March 29–30, and I would like to invite you to attend as my guest! Simply use promo code IIoTWorld when you register online to…