How to prepare your machining processes for Industry 4.0
· Connected Industry

How to prepare your machining processes for Industry 4.0

Industry 4.0 is all about new technology. Here’s how to prepare your machining processes for the next industrial revolution. Machining Processes Overview You have probably heard that we’re entering the next “industrial revolution” – Industry 4.0. Like the three that came before it, this will be a period of disruption and monumental shift for every […]

Read more →
Manufacturing Success Through Data-Driven Operations
· Smart Manufacturing

Manufacturing Success Through Data-Driven Operations

Many manufacturers have faced more change in the last five years than in the previous 20. Increased complexity, competition and a changing environment is putting more pressure on manufacturers to increase agility and flexibility to meet customer demands while operating at higher levels of efficiency and resilience. Digital solutions offer a path to succeed in […]

Read more →
How Industrial Linux Enables Distributed IIoT Applications
· Connected Industry

How Industrial Linux Enables Distributed IIoT Applications

Distributed applications are on the cutting edge of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). By leveraging the latest advances in edge computing, that is, deploying edge gateways to collect and preprocess data from numerous sensors and other devices spread across many different field locations before transmitting mission-critical information to the cloud, distributed IIoT applications bring […]

Read more →
Edge Architecture for IIoT
· Industrial IoT

Edge Architecture for IIoT

If you’re an industrial manufacturer or OEM wishing to adopt IIoT as part of your overall digital strategy, you’ll find that edge computing is often a required component. Even though edge computing is used pervasively throughout IIoT, its exact purpose and place in the technology stack is not always clear. Edge Computing & IIoT This lack of […]

Read more →
Creating and Deploying Industrial IoT Solutions in Enterprise Environments
· Connected Industry

Creating and Deploying Industrial IoT Solutions in Enterprise Environments

This paper focuses on enabling and leveraging computational power at the edge The first paper in a short series on the Industrial IoT (IIoT) focused on the intrinsic need to decouple data generation from data usage, functionality that is enabled by replicating the decoupled ICT architecture of enterprise environments. This is needed in order to […]

Read more →
Virtualization in the Factory
· Smart Manufacturing

Virtualization in the Factory

Virtualization, which in recent years has taken increasingly important steps, has become the model of integration and management of systems with the most promising evolution. Virtualization also means rationalizing the use of a network, of a data storage resource, of software. The concept of virtualization describes a technology that is abstracted from the physical component, […]

Read more →
Evolution of Quality. What’s next in digital era?
· Connected Industry

Evolution of Quality. What’s next in digital era?

This e-book captures how quality concepts have evolved over the last century and explains how some common but proven quality tools are taking a new avatar in the current scenario with the evolution of digital technologies.As the focus shifted from quality control to quality assurance, strengthening process quality became a key pillar of delivering a […]

Read more →
Computer Vision Platforms Mean Flexible Visual Inspection for Agile Manufacturing
· Artificial Intelligence

Computer Vision Platforms Mean Flexible Visual Inspection for Agile Manufacturing

Visual inspection—making sure that the parts are all present, the labels are on straight, and the packing materials are all in place—is an essential component of quality control in the manufacturing industry. By double-checking everything before products leave the factory floor, you can dramatically cut expenses, reduce waste, make customers happier, and lower the chance […]

Read more →
Industrial IoT and the Cloud: Why Data is Only Half the Battle
· Connected Industry

Industrial IoT and the Cloud: Why Data is Only Half the Battle

Regardless of whether you are retrofitting or purchasing new IT systems to remain competitive in manfacturing, you should develop a digitized, data-driven production strategy based on Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). It’s important to recognize the collection and storage of production-relevant data is only half the battle. A networked production line will only realize its full […]

Read more →
Accelerating IIoT Initiatives Through an Ecosystem Approach
· Smart Manufacturing

Accelerating IIoT Initiatives Through an Ecosystem Approach

IIoT initiatives can be major projects involving millions in custom development and integrations, years of work, and collaboration across all levels and departments of an organization. However, the result of such an approach is often a large, bulky, difficult-to-implement IoT “initiative” with no actionable use cases to speak of. Aside from the typically high failure rate of these IIoT projects, an unprecedented pandemic only exacerbated the problem. The question this begs asking: Why invest in digital transformation initiatives at the corporate level when you still don’t have usable data from the factory floor?

Read more →
Enabling a New Era of Industrial IoT with Free-Use Wireless Spectrum
· Connected Industry

Enabling a New Era of Industrial IoT with Free-Use Wireless Spectrum

Flexibility, ingrained security and centralized management are the touchstone of successful network deployments in just about any setting, especially as devices and services proliferate whether it be over wired or wireless infrastructure. What Free-Use Wireless Spectrum Delivers A lot has been coming together for 2021. The advent of 5G over CBRS  “free-to-use spectrum,” edge cloud […]

Read more →