The IIoT digital solution platform market at the end of 2018
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The IIoT digital solution platform market at the end of 2018

Do you know your platform solution? Knowing your digital solutions is key to choose industrial platforms, as they might not meet your exact needs. What is under the hood of an Industrial Platform solution? What do you look for? IIoT Platforms are still under significant construction. How do you judge the platforms that are out there? Companies have this […]

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Pick solutions, not platforms: How to choose an Industrial IoT platform
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Pick solutions, not platforms: How to choose an Industrial IoT platform

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” That common phrase once defined manufacturing’s approach to optimization. But today, enterprises are painfully aware that smarter production lines and more efficient processes can save them millions in downtime and lost yield. So, plant managers- people in what traditionally is one of the more conservative roles –  are […]

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Getting ready for implementing an Industrial IoT project for a customer
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Getting ready for implementing an Industrial IoT project for a customer

Industrial IoT projects can cost millions to buy or develop and still not improve business outcomes. How does this happen to even experienced industrial manufacturers? The details vary. Yet the root causes are the same. A post-mortem of each IoT failure inevitably reveals a common set of fatal flaws. That’s good news. It’s not that […]

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CEO Insights: Manufacturing is one of the most prevalent industries ripe for implementing IIoT solutions
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CEO Insights: Manufacturing is one of the most prevalent industries ripe for implementing IIoT solutions

The manufacturing industry has a long history of automated machines and systems. IIoT is part of larger digital transformation efforts to help connect critical assets, extract data, and improve factory operations. IIoT still raises a lot of questions and here are a few that we asked the COO of Litmus Automation, John Younes. Carolina Rudinschi: […]

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Navigating the big pivot from IoT to AI-driven analytics
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Navigating the big pivot from IoT to AI-driven analytics

If you’ve worked in industry for any length of time, you’ve experienced wave after wave of digital technologies washing over the plant floor, from robots to tablets. The next decade will see a new technological wave breaking over the landscape, as artificial intelligence expands from a narrow set of tasks to far more sophisticated applications […]

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IoT Gateway Software For Connecting Industrial Equipment
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IoT Gateway Software For Connecting Industrial Equipment

IoT gateway software is the unsung hero of industrial IoT. Your IoT gateway bridges the worlds of OT and IT, where the physical becomes digital. Your industrial equipment speaks through varied industrial protocols, and your gateway software understands them all. First, it translates and cleans up incoming data, and adds critical context. Then it stores […]

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Tracking Industrial Assets for Better Business Decisions
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Tracking Industrial Assets for Better Business Decisions

While Industrial IoT continues to mature, many customers are hesitant to share project details for obvious competitive reasons.  As an alternative, it can be useful to look at potential use cases to see how IoT can benefit industrial enterprises. In this industrial asset tracking use case, the sample customer is a large multinational mining company with […]

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The Hidden Risks of Unreliable Data in IIoT
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The Hidden Risks of Unreliable Data in IIoT

One of the key goals of Industry 4.0 is business optimization, whether it’s from predictive maintenance, asset optimization, or other capabilities that drive operational efficiencies. Each of these capabilities is driven by data, and their success is dependent on having the right data at the right time fed into the appropriate models and predictive algorithms. […]

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Becoming the Master of your Connected Industrial Universe
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Becoming the Master of your Connected Industrial Universe

The world is changing, and today’s leading industrial OEMs are developing connected products to avoid being left behind. Machine learning and artificial intelligence drive predictive maintenance and business optimization. Remote asset monitoring and management eliminate costly unscheduled downtime and boost operational efficiency. Real-time and historical visualizations create better products and services, while workflow integrations help make […]

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[IIC Whitepaper] Industrial Networking Enabling IIoT Communication
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[IIC Whitepaper] Industrial Networking Enabling IIoT Communication

The internet is now redefining industries like energy, manufacturing, transportation and healthcare. This new wave is the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT): an internet of things, machines, computers and people, enabling intelligent industrial operations using advanced data analytics for transformational business outcomes, according to Industrial Internet Consortium Industrial Internet Vocabulary, Version 1.0, May 7, 2015. The […]

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The Ideal IIoT Solution For OEMs
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The Ideal IIoT Solution For OEMs

The Internet of Things (IoT) represents an undeniable business opportunity to OEMs developing industrial equipment and machinery. Just about every industry is digitizing, and industrial equipment is no different. While customers purchase equipment to perform a specific task, connecting the asset can help them make more money and improve efficiencies for the asset’s limited lifecycle.  Forward-thinking […]

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Smart Sensors Increasingly Important in the Industrial IoT Age
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Smart Sensors Increasingly Important in the Industrial IoT Age

While there is no single standard that could be applied to support a claim that a sensor is “smart,” Smart Sensors are typically characterized by on-board intelligence and the ability to communicate via a digital network.  With the emergence of both the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Industrial IoT (IIoT), new smart IoT sensors […]

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