Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is the most reliable practices metric for measuring manufacturing productivity. OEE is used as a baseline and benchmark to measure the utilization of a manufacturing operation or piece of equipment. Many uses OEE numbers to trace the progress of the company’s production quality over time. Benchmarks for OEE An OEE score […]
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Industrial IoT and the connected factory concept are red-hot topics. Yet often, there is confusion among professionals in both on and offline discussions around the role of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications. Questions like, “Does Internet of Things replace SCADA?”, “Can the two be integrated?” and “What is the difference between IoT, SCADA & […]
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Analysis of the IoT market often results in observers drawing a strong correlation between its trends, and rising popularity among techies and engineers, with a gravitational pull akin to last centuries internet boom, thanks in great part to pioneering minds like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson and their quest to bring broadband to […]
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The convergence of Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) systems may help manufacturers embrace new service offerings using web-based business models. Many years ago one of my distributor partners took me to do an automation demo for a very large industrial OEM. Afterward we went into a stockroom, where she noted on a clipboard […]
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IIoT or Industrial IoT (Internet of Things) is everywhere. It’s across all industries, from high tech transport, to natural resources and governments. IIoT software and hardware is deployed for numerous, varying applications, and it’s critical to understand just what the customer needs. Especially since the customer can’t always articulate exactly what the remote monitoring and sensor […]
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The internet of things (IoT) has been associated with major cyberattacks, often involving the abuse of vulnerable connected devices, such as surveillance cameras, to facilitate malicious activities. Of course, concerns have been raised about the IoT’s capability to secure billions of devices connected to the unwieldy internet, calling for viable solutions that could fill the […]
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According to an article published by Trend Micro: “in 2018, digital extortion will be at the core of most cybercriminals’ business model and will propel them into other schemes that will get their hands on potentially hefty payouts. Vulnerabilities in IoT devices will expand the attack surface as devices get further woven into the fabric […]
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There are two worlds of computer security – high-end systems and then everything else. Both high- and low-end systems typically employ “top-down” defenses to harden their attack surfaces. These are “software-only” security techniques. High-end and specialized systems have the additional protection of “bottom-up” defenses in the form of Hardware Security Modules (HSMs). HSMs sequester secrets […]
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IBM, Cisco, and GE are pushing the IIoT as a major revolution in how marketing and manufacturing is done. The IIoT demands nearly 100% uptime all the time, and the only way to make sure you get that, is with a Network Information management (NIM) that operates in real-time. Bridging the IT/OT and Moving to […]
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What is a microcontroller in IoT? Microcontrollers are tiny, self-contained computers hosted on a microchip. They enable connectivity and control in all the things which could be connected to the internet. Microcontrollers are designed to perform specific functions, and they can be integrated into almost anything ranging from industrial equipment, warehouse inventory items, wearables devices, […]
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The Internet of Things (IoT) enables vendors to create an entirely new line of “smart” solutions for its existing and new markets. While the decision to go “smart” is straightforward, the decision of how to do so is not. Vendors are faced with a “build, buy, partner” decision – build it themselves, buy or license […]
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As a Product Manager, we can’t keep chasing the next big thing all the time. It’s true we need to understand where technology is going, but we need to be more pragmatic and realize there is no single “killer app” for anything. Particularly for IIoT. Is predictive maintenance the killer app for IIoT? Predictive maintenance […]
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