Who’s really running your industrial IoT project?
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Who’s really running your industrial IoT project?

Who’s in charge? Is it the engineering manager selecting building blocks for putting the platform together? Could it be the IT leader preparing data lakes for absorbing the output of analog machines into the digital domain? Perhaps the Chief Digital Officer creating a vision for the future is in charge. Maybe it’s the product owner […]

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Focus! …and Take IIoT Action
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Focus! …and Take IIoT Action

Your focus may be within your four walls – but the real value is shifting the Industrial IoT attention to your supply chain. While the latest edge computing consolidates, contextualizes and filters end-point sensor data near the point of creation, it also provides a pathway for this data to be packaged and delivered. Where it’s […]

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IIC Launches the IIoT Maturity Assessment Explorer

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 organizations become best-practice adopters of IIoT by guiding business managers through a range of questions about the adoption, usage […]

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Industrial IoT as Practical Digital Transformation
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Industrial IoT as Practical Digital Transformation

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” are rarely meaningful or transferable to other businesses and vertical applications. Fortunately, one enterprise recently sat down to share […]

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6 Myths about IIoT Implementation Debunked
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6 Myths about IIoT Implementation Debunked

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 IIoT initiatives or hesitate to move beyond pilots due to complexity and cost concerns. Preparing for the worst isn’t […]

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[New ebook] Improving Operational Efficiency with Industrial IoT
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[New ebook] Improving Operational Efficiency with Industrial IoT

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 to start when looking at benefits, but Industrial IoT drives operational efficiency in many other areas including predictive maintenance, […]

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Does hardware matter?
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Does hardware matter?

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 competitive edge is coming purely from the software. In more specific from the usability, capability, and features of that […]

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How IIoT Creates Real-Time Visibility for Manufacturing – IIoT webinar and Q&A
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How IIoT Creates Real-Time Visibility for Manufacturing – IIoT webinar and Q&A

Recorded version of “How IIoT Creates Real-Time Visibility for Manufacturing” webinar and Q&A Creating real-time visibility in operations is about delivering the right information at the right time to the right person. In today’s factories, manufacturing visibility is often limited because of disparate IT and OT systems, reports based on data from last week, and […]

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Industrial IoT Vision & Investment Guidelines
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Industrial IoT Vision & Investment Guidelines

A connected factory, a robotic arm, and a power drill walk into a bar. The bartender asks them for data. All three start yelling at the same time. The bartender walks out. The next day, his body is found in a trough of disillusionment outside the old Gartner place. The data wars had begun… Today, the […]

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4 Things Asset Tracking Won’t Do (and a few it will)
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4 Things Asset Tracking Won’t Do (and a few it will)

Asset tracking is a big topic, with more than a little relevance to the Industrial Internet of Things. Although it can do quite a bit for your business, it won’t solve every problem. Also, even the best implementation of the best system might need some clever integration to reach its highest value, and even that […]

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Our Picks from Hannover Messe 2019 – Day 1. What’s next on our agenda?
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Our Picks from Hannover Messe 2019 – Day 1. What’s next on our agenda?

It seems that 2019 is truly the year for Digital Transformation, as almost all of the announcements/sessions we heard today were about Industrial IoT and Industrial cybersecurity. We might be biased as our focus is 100% on IIoT. Here is what we found out today at Hannover Messe: The purpose of Azure Security Center for […]

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