Zebra Technologies Corporation published the results of the Zebra’s 2017 Manufacturing Vision Study, a body of research analyzing the emerging manufacturing trends shaping the future of connected factories. The global study revealed manufacturers are adopting the IIoT to…
Whether you’ve embraced the notion of digital manufacturing or you’re wondering where to even begin, there are things you can do right now to move a little closer to the future and make that all-important transition…
There is an enormous amount of buzz about predictive maintenance and how it can save money for manufacturers, but it’s often difficult to figure out what is and isn’t hype. Also, there are a lot of…
Industrial IoT gives packaging and weighing equipment manufacturers real-time visibility into scale accuracy and machine health. A packing scale tipping 12 times per minute and overfilling a 10 kg bag by just half a kilogram produces…
Why Does Africa Need IIoT and Industrie 4.0? Africa faces massive scope for IIoT adoption, according to Nico Steyn, CEO of IoT.nxt. Steyn states that IoT technology can catapult Africa into the Fourth Industrial Revolution, making…
IoT adoption is accelerating faster than society's readiness for its full consequences, according to Auto-ID specialist Mohammad Amer Shallah. Historical examples, including air traffic radar, airplane blackboxes, road traffic sensors, fire alarm systems, pollution sensors, and…
Cloud-centered IIoT architecture faces fundamental limits in scalability, uptime, and network latency for mission-critical applications. Decentralized edge computing, promoted by initiatives like EdgeX Foundry and the OpenFog, moves analytics and decision-making to the edge. Platforms including…
Automation, driven by robotics, artificial intelligence, and IoT, is reshaping the US jobs market across nearly every industry. The transportation sector alone faces displacement of 2.2 to 3.1 million workers globally. Yet studies indicate that mass…
Industrial Internet of Things platforms, offered by software and automation suppliers including Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services, play an integral role in analytics, remote asset monitoring, performance management, and connected products. According to ARC's IIoT…
“We must develop a comprehensive and globally shared view of how technology is affecting our lives and reshaping our economic, social, cultural, and human environments. There has never been a time of greater promise, or greater…
IT and OT collaboration is necessary for industrial cybersecurity because IT security teams hold the security knowledge while OT teams hold the domain expertise to assess how security measures affect industrial control systems. Without C-Level involvement,…
Intelligrated, now part of Honeywell, developed IRIS, the Intelligrated Reliability Intelligence Solution, a computerized maintenance management software (CMMS) that connects to customer equipment via IIoT to gather machine data. The system reduces inventory costs by 10-15%,…