If you’re an industrial manufacturer or OEM wishing to adopt IIoT as part of your overall digital strategy, you’ll find that edge computing is often a required component. Even though edge computing is used pervasively throughout IIoT, its exact purpose and place in the technology stack is not always clear. Edge Computing & IIoT This lack of […]
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This paper focuses on enabling and leveraging computational power at the edge The first paper in a short series on the Industrial IoT (IIoT) focused on the intrinsic need to decouple data generation from data usage, functionality that is enabled by replicating the decoupled ICT architecture of enterprise environments. This is needed in order to […]
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Visual inspection—making sure that the parts are all present, the labels are on straight, and the packing materials are all in place—is an essential component of quality control in the manufacturing industry. By double-checking everything before products leave the factory floor, you can dramatically cut expenses, reduce waste, make customers happier, and lower the chance […]
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IIoT initiatives can be major projects involving millions in custom development and integrations, years of work, and collaboration across all levels and departments of an organization. However, the result of such an approach is often a large, bulky, difficult-to-implement IoT “initiative” with no actionable use cases to speak of. Aside from the typically high failure rate of these IIoT projects, an unprecedented pandemic only exacerbated the problem. The question this begs asking: Why invest in digital transformation initiatives at the corporate level when you still don’t have usable data from the factory floor?
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One buzzwords nowadays is “4th Industrial Revolution”. Let’s ask ourselves: What are we talking about when we say “4th Industrial Revolution”? For sure, we are talking about a huge potential of innovation in Industry 4.0. Numerous studies have attempted to quantify the opportunities, and all talk about BIG numbers, in terms of number of connected devices, […]
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It should come as no surprise to anyone that global manufacturing operations have been deeply impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic – with shocks to supply chains, pricing structures and growth strategies. What may be less obvious is how companies can intelligently use analytics to meet these challenges. Sid Verma, general manager of the manufacturing practice […]
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Having visited more than 40 countries, 200 cities and lived in six countries in the last 10 years as well as working in the disruptive Internet of Things (IoT) space, the subject of how to solve urban problems and make cities smarter and more citizen friendly is of particular interest to me for both professional […]
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IIoT is driving the manufacturing industry to modernize its software infrastructure. Whether you call it Industry 4.0 or the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), manufacturing is in the midst of a significant transformation. A key motivation in this push to modernize is that real-time data and dynamic decision making yield meaningful performance improvements for businesses. […]
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Making a factory smart means taking advantage of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) – technologies that collect and centralize mass amounts of machine data gathered from industrial environments and create value from that data. Solutions built on IIoT platforms collect, aggregate, analyze, and provide insight to enable you to quickly act on the data to boost operational efficiency and […]
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There is no stopping an asset from getting older……and aging plant assets can create a number of challenges for industrial organizations: Frequent breakdowns Disruption Decreasing efficiency According to the former CEO of Factora, Charles A. Horth in an article published in Industry Week: “three categories of business drivers should drive IIoT decisions: Pain: What must […]
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Panel Sponsored by and The Industry 4.0 revolution brings with it a new operational risk for connected, smart manufacturers and digital supply networks: cyber. Industrial Cybersecurity should be an integral part of the strategy, design, and operations from the beginning of any new connected, Industry 4.0–driven initiative. In light of Industry 4.0, our expert line […]
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Existing maintenance solutions limit production. With the legacy tools and processes at their disposal, manufacturers commonly take reactive or scheduled maintenance approaches that present a multitude of challenges: Existing Maintenance approaches are costly: Up to $1.3M per hour cost of downtime in auto manufacturing (Source: PTC) 10x cost of unplanned downtime compared to planned (Source: ARC Advisory […]
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