The food & beverage industry is facing a number of key manufacturing operational challenges. Food & beverage manufacturing typically consists of complex processes, such as clean-in-place, traceability, capturing mislabeled products, and serialization. The industry needs to ensure the utmost consistency of brand and product quality, taste and safety while simultaneously lowering the costs of production […]
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Unplanned work stoppages cost global industries millions of dollars in lost revenue. Downtime can be caused for multiple reasons. Examples can be weather delays in airline companies or cyber crime which lead to infrastructure breakdowns. Susceptibility to failure persists, particularly as it relates to factories. According to some research information, more than 90% of machines […]
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Sooner or later the data science jargon and marketing hype is going to subside, and manufacturing companies, among many other sectors, are going to find themselves sitting with broken promises. It is therefore important that these organizations understand clearly how they stand to benefit from and be empowered by data science and the challenges thereof. […]
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Industrial espionage is nothing new. Theft of trade secrets and corporate intellectual property (IP) such as proprietary manufacturing processes, formulas, recipes, and product designs has been happening for decades. And you probably already know this if you work in industries such as manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals. What is industrial espionage? Industrial espionage is sometimes credited […]
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A smart, connected enterprise can embrace the digital transformation in the coming Internet of Things (IoT) world. Manufacturers must adopt technologies that transform operating models and allow for digital connections of processes, events, actions, internal workers and external partners. This transformation will allow manufacturers greater agility and flexibility for regional or global production. It appears manufacturing executives […]
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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 to Industry 4.0. First and foremost, creating networks that can adapt and respond to change will be a vital […]
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Knowledge is king in the industrial manufacturing environment today as decisions need to occur with 20/20 vision, no blind spots. Network visibility allows manufacturers to discover issues that impact process integrity and performance, fix hidden problems in their networks and protect critical systems against cyber threats. Having the right technology allows the user to understand the network and […]
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Over the past few years there has been a lot of talk on how Industrial IoT can change how industries derive more value and new revenue opportunities such that there is little need to outline its value proposition in a general sense. Rather, in this article I wish to focus on a particular industry – […]
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For a few years now, industry players have been touting the benefits of the Internet of Things (IoT). Want to streamline processes? Look into IoT. Want to create new service revenue streams? A job for IoT. Want to dramatically reduce downtime? IoT to the rescue. It is easy to see how manufacturers may be daunted […]
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Advanced Design and Manufacturing (ADM) Cleveland is less than one week away, March 29–30, and I would like to invite you to attend as my guest! Simply use promo code IIoTWorld when you register online to claim your FREE pass. ADM Cleveland is Northeast Ohio’s only comprehensive design and manufacturing event, offering five industry-specific zones […]
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Useful IoT prototypes can be built from a variety of visual and step-by-step tools, and are instrumental in showing the vision and promise of bring IoT into your enterprise. When it’s time to design the production system that will support your production business cases, new aspects must be considered and accounted for that were not […]
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