IoT – The Future DNA of the Automobile Industry
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IoT – The Future DNA of the Automobile Industry

The Internet of Things empowers digital transformations in tremendous ways and has already established a significant impact on different sectors, including retail, healthcare, construction, agriculture, and tech companies. IoT in the automobile industry plays a phenomenal role, in that it paves the way to a more sophisticated platform with impeccable inbuilt features. IoT in Various […]

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Are Your Current Maintenance Practices Draining Profits?
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Are Your Current Maintenance Practices Draining Profits?

How Maintenance Excellence can reduce downtime, overall maintenance costs and worker stress while boosting plant efficiency In recent blog posts I’ve explored how Asset Performance can affect your plant’s economic return. With Asset Reliability as the first step in your action plan, the next thing to consider is Maintenance Excellence. To help explain the concept […]

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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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Is Artificial Intelligence Good or Bad: Debating the Ethics of AI
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Is Artificial Intelligence Good or Bad: Debating the Ethics of AI

On August 4, 1997, Skynet came online to control the weapons arsenal of the United States with a mandate of “safeguarding the world.” Skynet started to learn at a geometric rate and became self-aware at 2:14am on August 29, 1997. Humans saw the artificial intelligence (AI) as a threat and attempted to shut it down. […]

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Three key ways to ensure that implementing IIoT goes off smoothly
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Three key ways to ensure that implementing IIoT goes off smoothly

There are three key ways to ensure that implementing IIoT—and in particular IoT integration on the factory floor—in your manufacturing environment goes off without too much difficulty: Make sure that you are not getting stuck with the 20/60/20 rule of change management. This is where 20% of your workforce is firmly on board with your plans, […]

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How to Capture the Right Type of Data
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How to Capture the Right Type of Data

When it comes to collecting data with industrial IoT within the world of manufacturing, it isn’t just about quantity. It’s also about the quality of the information that you are gathering from various machines; manufacturing data analytics that enables you to analyze it and make decisions now, and for the long term. What is Deep Data […]

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Retrospective digitalisation
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Retrospective digitalisation

Making the most of legacy equipment According to the Annual Manufacturing Report, 2018, four in five manufacturers believe that smart factory technologies will improve their supply chain relationships. The proposed benefits of data collection from smart sensors are huge, but some manufacturers still feel that a smart factory is out of their reach.   In […]

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Building a Successful Roadmap to IIoT Implementation
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Building a Successful Roadmap to IIoT Implementation

Having the right pieces in place, setting reasonable expectations, and a dedication to project initiatives may be the best roadmap to a succesful IIoT implementation. Planning a Digital Transformation We often talk to companies who have predictive and preventative aspirations but who still don’t have machines networked, the necessary IT infrastructure to capture and aggregate […]

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Remote Machine Monitoring: A Game-Changer for Machine Builders
· Predictive Analytics

Remote Machine Monitoring: A Game-Changer for Machine Builders

An issue in manufacturing that is singular to machine builders is the speed with which they can respond with service to the machines, in the case of a failure. In the past, this has usually meant an actual failure has taken place, resulting in a delayed order, scrapped parts, and potentially days of downtime. When […]

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Combine Crosser Edge Streaming Analytics and Azure IoT Edge
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Combine Crosser Edge Streaming Analytics and Azure IoT Edge

Based on customer requests we have implemented support for running Crosser Edge Streaming Analytics on Azure IoT Edge. Now you can innovate much faster and without the cost, risk and developer dependencies that come with writing code. The Crosser Edge Streaming Analytics solution allows non-software developers to implement and deploy streaming analytics at the edge, […]

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Being smart at the Intelligent Edge
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Being smart at the Intelligent Edge

The Internet of Things (IoT) offers new ways to drive efficiencies, engage customers, and develop new business with greater insights at the Intelligent Edge. This requires more and more computing power at the edge to capture and analyze data right where it is generated. This can be in a car, in a factory, on a […]

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Machine Monitoring: Your first step in Industrial IoT
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Machine Monitoring: Your first step in Industrial IoT

The first step in adopting Industrial IoT is Machine Monitoring Industrial IoT is the wave of the future for manufacturing. Why? Because the goal in any plant or on any factory floor is to reduce costs to improve profitability without compromising quality and, therefore, remaining competitive. Add in the need to be able to respond to […]

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