How to Capture the Right Type of Data
· Analytics

How to Capture the Right Type of Data

When it comes to collecting data with industrial IoT within the world of manufacturing, it isn’t just about quantity. It’s also about the quality of the information that you are gathering from various machines; manufacturing data analytics that enables you to analyze it and make decisions now, and for the long term. What is Deep Data […]

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Building Trust in the Smart City – Think Beyond Cybersecurity and Privacy
· Smart Cities

Building Trust in the Smart City – Think Beyond Cybersecurity and Privacy

What is trust in the smart city and why is it important? Smart city projects represent one of the hottest initiatives among city leaders, urban planners and technology vendors today. According to IDC, these initiatives will translate to $80 billion of technology investments worldwide by 2018 and $135 billion by 2021. While the smart city […]

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The Lottery You Don’t Want to Win: Introducing the RunSafe Pwn Index™
· Cybersecurity

The Lottery You Don’t Want to Win: Introducing the RunSafe Pwn Index™

Financial instruments have given enterprises good tools and processes by which to manage their risk, but there is absolutely no limit to the amount of threat intelligence that security teams can benefit from having at their disposal. To help enterprise security teams reduce risk even more, we’ve just announced the release of the RunSafe Pwn […]

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Missteps to Avoid When Implementing Digital Transformation Strategy
· Connected Industry

Missteps to Avoid When Implementing Digital Transformation Strategy

Implementing digital transformation strategy presents many challenges.  These can range from having to manage massive revamping of business and work processes to implementing completely new models for customer engagement. Some challenges are understood but still difficult, such as dealing with legacy technology and infrastructure. Many other challenges of digital transformation simply can’t be foreseen, yet […]

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The Four Steps to the IoT Epiphany
· Connected Industry

The Four Steps to the IoT Epiphany

Industrial equipment manufacturers around the world are looking for ways to protect their core businesses while also seeking new cost savings and customer revenue opportunities. Many look to digital transformation and industrial IoT for enabling new services like remote monitoring and predictive maintenance. They’re seeking methods for collecting and integrating machine and enterprise data, and optimizing their […]

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Monetizing Your IoT Project
· Connected Industry

Monetizing Your IoT Project

One of the biggest challenges in getting funding for an IoT project is being unable to monetize the results. Complete IoT solutions often cost a lot of money – new hardware needs to be purchased and custom software needs to be created.  When asked to justify the cost of a solution, many people focus on […]

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Retrospective digitalisation
· Connected Industry

Retrospective digitalisation

Making the most of legacy equipment According to the Annual Manufacturing Report, 2018, four in five manufacturers believe that smart factory technologies will improve their supply chain relationships. The proposed benefits of data collection from smart sensors are huge, but some manufacturers still feel that a smart factory is out of their reach.   In […]

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Building a Successful Roadmap to IIoT Implementation
· Connected Industry

Building a Successful Roadmap to IIoT Implementation

Having the right pieces in place, setting reasonable expectations, and a dedication to project initiatives may be the best roadmap to a succesful IIoT implementation. Planning a Digital Transformation We often talk to companies who have predictive and preventative aspirations but who still don’t have machines networked, the necessary IT infrastructure to capture and aggregate […]

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Three developments in industrial safety
· Connected Industry

Three developments in industrial safety

How Industry 4.0 technology can be used to improve staff safety Increased productivity is not the only benefit of Industry 4.0. The focus on real-time monitoring and connected technology has allowed plant managers to place greater emphasis on the health and safety of their staff.  It’s not uncommon for film stars to injure themselves at […]

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Benefits of 5G can usher in a new era for Industrial IoT – and maybe new taxes, too
· Connected Industry

Benefits of 5G can usher in a new era for Industrial IoT – and maybe new taxes, too

With the long-anticipated roll-out of 5G, there are high expectations for the potential impact of new technologies and business models enabled by these networks. The advent of 5G brings multiple advantages, including greater speed to move more data, lower latency to reduce delays, and the ability to connect more devices. In particular, the industrial IoT […]

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CxO Insights with Michael Murray: “The level of cybersecurity awareness is as high as I have ever seen it”
· Cybersecurity

CxO Insights with Michael Murray: “The level of cybersecurity awareness is as high as I have ever seen it”

As connectivity to the outside world grows, security is becoming one of the most important topics in industrial IT and Operational Technology. In this interview, Michael Murray, SVP and GM Cyber Physical at BlackRidge Technology, responds to our questions focused on ICS security. Carolina Rudinschi: How would you rate the level of cybersecurity awareness among industry in general? Why? Michael […]

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Prepare Your Enterprise For Industrial IoT Success
· Connected Industry

Prepare Your Enterprise For Industrial IoT Success

Throughout our ten years of working with equipment manufacturers to connect, collect, and integrate operational data with enterprise systems, we’ve seen many trends impacting industrial IoT project success. The world has finally moved beyond most of the technological limitations for building innovative solutions for IIoT. All the necessary tools exist to create connected product systems […]

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