The last two and a half centuries have brought about stunning changes in industrial productivity. With each passing generation, new and more advanced equipment and methodologies have arrived on scene to push production capabilities to new heights. And as each new methodology or technological advancement has matured, the quest for greater operational efficiency has honed […]
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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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It was an attack on a hospital like no other, reported the news in February 2016. The Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center had been hacked. Its services were crippled. As emergency patients were diverted to other area hospitals, hospital administrators received an ominous message. Pay a ransom to get your hospital systems back. The hospital ultimately […]
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5G is grabbing headlines across consumer markets with mobile network operators generating buzz on the power of new content delivery services for ground-breaking smartphone applications. There is undoubtedly potential there, but 5G’s impact on commercial markets, especially industrial, will be of equal magnitude. There is an array of connected ‘things’ existing and entering industrial environments […]
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The heating and cooling infrastructure in Västerås is a complex operation managed by utility company Mälarenergi that lacked the visibility required for effective control. A collaboration between Mälarenergi and ABB allowed the collection of data that could be integrated into a common platform providing real-time visualization of the network delivering the ability to develop smart […]
Read more →What is SCADA? Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems have been in existence three decades and have long been considered the de facto method for interfacing with PLCs and providing alarming, logging, trending, and operator interface functionality. Today most SCADA packages include web and mobile interfaces and tout these features as their Industrial Internet […]
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Do you know your platform solution? Knowing your digital solutions is key to choose industrial platforms, as they might not meet your exact needs. What is under the hood of an Industrial Platform solution? What do you look for? IIoT Platforms are still under significant construction. How do you judge the platforms that are out there? Companies have this […]
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It’s been almost 18 months since the grand opening of the HPE’s Americas IoT Innovation Lab in Houston, Texas. This center, along with its sister APJ facility in Singapore and two new online labs in Geneva and Bangalore, serve as collaborative environments where customers, HPE, and IoT partners can develop, test, and assist in the […]
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Let’s not beat around the bug – 2018 was not a good year for my kind. As of now, nearly one in three computers was hit with a malware attack this year, and ransomware attacks were up 43% over 2017, with nothing to signal that these trends will decrease any time soon. Shortly after Thanksgiving, Marriott disclosed a […]
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Two years ago, customers began to take delivery of an unusual new product developed by HPE’s R&D and business teams. Hewlett-Packard has long been regarded as one of the most innovative tech companies on the planet, helping to put Silicon Valley on the map through inventions such as the first scientific calculator and the first […]
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Day One As a proud graduate of The Ohio State University, when I think of Michigan, several things come to mind…but tossing aside for a moment the rivalries of one’s sports-related youth, the images that surface for me tend to be namesakes of a winged variety: The Falcon, The Road Runner, The Firebird. Yes, the […]
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Blockchain technology attempts to address the problems described in the previous section through a common data architecture that allows non-trusting parties to share information in a more secure manner. Blockchains are designed to permanently record transactions, not only currency transactions but also data exchanges, in such a way that the record cannot be tampered with. […]
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