Thank you for your active participation in Analytics at the Edge Virtual Conference. As promised, here are the answers to the questions we did not get to during the LIVE event we hosted on November 16, 2022. Q1. Why do you use Kubernetes and not docker-compose? Any advantages? Is IIoT core a software component deployed […]
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What is downtime? ‘Downtime’ is one of the most dreaded words in manufacturing. While downtime is part of life in a factory, managers, operators, and technicians constantly strive to reduce it and mitigate its effects. When manufacturers have a decent understanding of their operation, usually this downtime is accounted for as “planned” downtime. Planned downtime […]
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Knowing how to manage and process data, information, is an asset of the digital enterprise. That’s why analytics tools are becoming increasingly important in the manufacturing sector. As highlighted by Gartner in one of its Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms, the trend (as well as the differential on which industry players are […]
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In countless applications that track live systems, real-time analytics play a key role in identifying problems and uncovering new opportunities. They enable data and operations managers to respond fast enough to make a difference in the moment. The need to quickly understand and act on telemetry has never been more important and challenging, as we […]
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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 make better, faster decisions, but also to enable automation across the organization making data analysis in manufacturing an important […]
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The onset of COVID-19 has shined a stark spotlight on a previously complacent attitude to workplace health and safety. Amidst spiralling infection rates and provincial lockdowns, long-standing workplace safety procedures have been strained under the impact of an invisible and deadly virus. It should be clear by now that what went before is not fit […]
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Industrial Digital Transformation is happening, but the reality is that most companies are handling data on paper. To think about analytics on the shop floor, one of the first things to be done is to automate not only the process, but the data collection and transformation. This is a key step to think about Artificial Intelligence or other terms like Digital Twins and that […]
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Many companies are turning to remote monitoring to achieve their goals of becoming safer, more efficient, and more sustainable in how they work and operate. Starting with SCADA, and now with the advent of the Internet of Things, these systems have been faithful companions to business leaders who want to empower their workforce and maximize […]
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The importance of data has changed over the years. Initially, data was just the “exhaust” from an organization’s On-Line Transactional Process (OLTP) systems. However as the volume, variety and velocity of the data grew over the past few years, the economic value of data has been transformed by the big data phenomena [1] that has […]
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As global competitive pressures have driven changes and higher expectations for manufacturing organizations, enterprise technology in manufacturing must respond at an accelerated pace today. Largely the result of fundamental changes enabled by transformative technologies, new and novel opportunities for industrial organizations are looming. This provides the capacity to leverage the role of industrial analytics and use […]
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For the last fourteen years, LNS Research and its predecessors published bi-annual research in partnership with MESA Manufacturing on the use of data in manufacturing. Until 2018, the research was titled, “Metrics That Matter.” Starting with 2018 we see an important shift in focus, examining “analytics that matter.” This evolutionary step in the study marks […]
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Why is it so hard for enterprise organizations to act like the startup companies they increasingly come up against? It’s a very good question. In every industry, across every vertical we see new businesses emerge from seemingly nowhere, impacting the market landscape. What is it that prevents our largest companies from adopting a similar path, […]
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