Digital transformation of the global workplace has impacted every aspect of the way companies do business. Much has been made of how smart, connected technologies are working behind the scenes to ingest, blend, and analyze data 24 hours a day, empowering companies like never before to form closer relationships with their customers and partners, gather market […]
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Any connected device can be compromised. When we think of vulnerable devices, we immediately think of our phones, laptops, IoT devices, and even enterprise databases. We are moving into a world where our transportation system – cars, trucks, traffic lights, and trains – are becoming vulnerable as well. Before we go much further with this […]
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Technology change is constant in today’s world! This is true for manufacturing as well. Let’s talk about the relation between New Technology, ROI and Desired Future state and the key considerations for investment despite short term pains. Please look at Exhibit A. Consider a paradigm shift that occurred due to ERP-MES with the advent of […]
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Amit Agarwal is an Industrial Strategy Manager with EssilorLuxottica in the operations division and with experience in implementation of factory automation previously as Automation & IT Manager with the same company. He has 20 plus years of experience in Engineering, IT, Lean, Continuous Improvement and Strategy. He is especially passionate to implement the lessons learned […]
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The Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) space is hot right now, as manufacturing represents perhaps the largest greenfield opportunity left for digitization. Yet, IoT platform implementations have historically had a high rate of failure within this vertical. What’s contributing to these failure rates, and what needs to change? The IoT Platform “Revolution” The term Industry […]
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The energy industry is entering a new era, triggered by the relentless rise of renewables, electric cars and smart grids. And like previous industrial revolutions, technology – and the willingness to embrace it – will determine the winners and losers. Over the past decade, the greatest disruptor in the energy industry has been the unlocking […]
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Machine learning enables organizations to harvest a higher volume of insights from both structured and unstructured data than they could otherwise accomplish with traditional business intelligence solutions. 1. A New Dimension in Predictive Analytics In today’s economy, all business is becoming data business. In a study conducted by Forrester Consulting, 98 percent of organizations said that […]
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The year 2020 marks the transition to a new decade, and recent notable events and trends signify a similar changeover in the threat landscape. Cybersecurity in 2020 and beyond will have to be viewed through many lenses — from differing attacker motivations and cybercriminal arsenal to advancing technological developments and global threat intelligence — only […]
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People spend inordinate amounts of time in their daily commute. New survey data show the average American’s commute inched up to 26.9 minutes from 26.6 minutes the previous year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2017 American Community Survey. That 18-second increase may seem small, but it totals an extra two and a half hours on […]
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A strong school of thought pertaining to the IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) revolution is that it’ll happen at the edge and not in the cloud. But what kind of servers and storage technology really supports the large volumes of big data that are a necessary part of the lifecycle of daily IIoT processes? In […]
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Traffic isn’t just bad. It’s actually getting worse. Do you think the traffic is bad where you live? Try moving to Boston, where commuters suffer the worst highway congestion in the nation. Residents of the New England city spent an average of 164 hours sitting in their vehicles going nowhere slowly last year, losing as […]
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We are all experiencing the impact of the digitalization. Name any tech buzzword – be it artificial intelligence, Fourth Industrial Revolution (4.0), big data, Internet of Things (IoT) – and you will see a ripple effect on different industries, opening up new opportunities, rethinking new business models, but also creating new challenges for societies. In […]
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