One buzzword rocking the manufacturing world these days is the "digital thread." But what is the digital thread? The digital thread is the framework of communication that allows for a connected data flow allowing you to…
High logistics costs, the lack of skilled labor, employee conflicts, and the complexity of the global supply chain – these and other factors encourage manufacturers to resort to distributed production. Outsourcing a part of the manufacturing…
The Industrial Internet Consortium ® (IIC™) today announced the IIoT Maturity Assessment, a web-based tool included in the IIC Resource Hub™ that enables users to better understand their enterprise IIoT maturity. The IIoT Maturity Assessment helps…
Industrial manufacturing organizations are increasingly motivated to seek value through connected systems. Yet few industrial IoT success stories contain enough details for showing others the way. Furthermore, statistics like “27% more efficient” or “19% productivity increase”…
How Maintenance Excellence can reduce downtime, overall maintenance costs and worker stress while boosting plant efficiency In recent blog posts I’ve explored how Asset Performance can affect your plant’s economic return. With Asset Reliability as the…
This post is the second of a 3-part series. Check back in next week for the conclusion of this series. In the first part of this series - The key role of Augmented Reality in Industry 4.0…
The Internet of Things (IoT) is ushering in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. While the need for digitalization is understood across-the-board, there are still many misconceptions that deter Industrial IoT (IIoT) implementation. Many organizations are postponing their…
A study by the American Association for Quality found that businesses shifting to digital processes and Industrial IoT have seen as high as 82% increase in efficiency accompanied with 49% less defects! Production on the shop floor is the most obvious place…
Artificial intelligence is reshaping the factory floor, the energy grid, and the supply chain — but its promise comes bundled with hard ethical questions that industrial leaders can no longer defer. At IIoT World, we've tracked…
I believe that every IoT and Industrial IoT system designer have to at least consider this question in the title. Or do you? In a modern market landscape, more and more companies own core value and…
We are in the midst of a massive change in manufacturing - and how well companies embrace and adapt to it is crucial to their future. Over the last several years, industrial companies have been undertaking…
A few weeks ago, Litmus Automation announced LoopEdge 2.0, the latest iteration of their edge computing platform designed to seamlessly connect all industrial assets and derive value with instant analytics. We asked COO John Younes to…