There’s a well-known old parable about some blind men who, upon meeting an elephant for the first time, try to appraise it and figure out just what exactly an elephant is. One man feels the elephant’s ...

September 2016 marked an important milestone in the purposeful development and intelligent evolution of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), namely the publication of the Industrial Internet ...

IoT's business benefits -- among them better intelligence, increased productivity and improved asset management -- are well known. Industrial IoT is poised to bring the same advantages to industrial ...

Manufacturing execution systems (MES) have undergone many transformations in the past several years—from simple point solutions to comprehensive shop floor systems that are now mission-critical to ...

Innovative IIoT technologies and solutions are slowly becoming omnipresent at major trade shows and on the factory floor from machine controllers to field devices, to software and communications.

Here is a generic business case example for a medium-sized manufacturer’s IIoT strategy to optimize operations, increase efficiency, reduce downtime and enhance competitiveness. As manufacturing ...

We all are aware of the concept of turning on and off the lights with the mobile phone. For manufacturers, it is possible to achieve it with the help of IoT (Internet of thing). IoT is a very simple ...

IIoT has the ability to significantly transform many industrial sectors, both in discrete manufacturing and the process industries. Across the emerging IIoT ecosystem there will be an extremely large ...

In a 2018 survey conducted by Inmarsat, a provider of satellite communications, one quarter of survey respondents said they anticipated spending at least 10% of their IT budgets over the next three ...

One of the key developments associated with the emergence of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Industry 4.0 is the expanding use of sensors throughout automation systems, including ...