Amit Agarwal, Industrial Strategy Manager
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Amit Agarwal, Industrial Strategy Manager

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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Reinventing the IoT Platform for Discrete Manufacturers
· Connected Industry

Reinventing the IoT Platform for Discrete Manufacturers

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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Technology will determine the winners and losers in the energy transition revolution
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Technology will determine the winners and losers in the energy transition revolution

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: The Next Step in Advanced Analytics
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Machine Learning: The Next Step in Advanced Analytics

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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Cybersecurity Predictions for 2020
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Cybersecurity Predictions for 2020

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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Planning your daily commute like it’s a planned vacation trip
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Planning your daily commute like it’s a planned vacation trip

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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BTS of IIoT Revolution: The Storage Technology that Drives it
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BTS of IIoT Revolution: The Storage Technology that Drives it

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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How AI & ML Are Being Used to Relieve Traffic Congestion
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How AI & ML Are Being Used to Relieve Traffic Congestion

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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Shaping the future of digitalization in Egypt
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Shaping the future of digitalization in Egypt

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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Connected Data Will Help Shape Smart Manufacturing of the Future
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Connected Data Will Help Shape Smart Manufacturing of the Future

Connected devices and the subsequent birth of the Internet of Things (IoT) have provided businesses a veritable treasure trove of data to mine, understand, and reapply to their own processes. And thus, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) was born. Most enterprises today have only scratched the surface of what their connected device data can […]

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The Relationship Between AI and Machine Monitoring
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The Relationship Between AI and Machine Monitoring

While buzzwords such as predictive maintenance, artificial intelligence, digital twin and augmented reality have promised to enable the fabled digital transformation of manufacturing, when it comes to Industry 4.0, most practical applications start and end with machine connectivity. And when it comes to driving value, look no further than answering these questions; “What’s happening?” and […]

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How predictive maintenance helps in business value creation
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How predictive maintenance helps in business value creation

Nowadays, factories have hundreds of machines for different processes such as cutting, forging, melting, extruding and more. All these industrial processes need 24/7 monitoring using the Internet of Things (IoT) sensors. The gigabytes of data generated from these machines are stored in the cloud directly. This data is further analyzed to identify even the slightest […]

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