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IIoT in manufacturing
- July 02, 2020
02 Jul'20
Manufacturers turn to servitization for competitive advantage
Servitization leads to more resilient and profitable businesses, but only a few manufacturers are fully enabled to adopt the new model, according to IDC.
- May 22, 2020
22 May'20
Machine health systems play critical role in age of disruption
As the COVID-19 crisis disrupts industries, manufacturers can keep lines running by using machine health monitoring systems to manage equipment and diagnose problems remotely.
- March 05, 2020
05 Mar'20
Manufacturing outlook hopeful despite recession fears
A new survey of midmarket manufacturing CFOs shows that most anticipate increases in revenue and profitability in 2020, in the face of an expected economic slowdown.
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- March 02, 2020
02 Mar'20
Connected worker platforms bring people into digital transformation
A dairy production company is using a connected worker platform to fill in the gaps of ERP and manufacturing systems and tie in front-line workers to its digital transformation.
- September 18, 2019
18 Sep'19
Sigfox network provides cheap, efficient connectivity for IoT
IoT applications for manufacturing and supply chain don't require 5G networks to send small packets of data. Sigfox believes they're better suited for a 0G network.
- August 15, 2018
15 Aug'18
Industrial cloud moving from public to hybrid systems
A new survey by ABI Research indicates that manufacturers will move IIoT systems from public cloud to hybrid systems as more storage and processing can be done at the device level.
- November 29, 2017
29 Nov'17
Adoption of IIOT applications rising but full value yet to come
Bsquare survey indicates most companies are happy with IIoT but haven't seen full benefits; Plex survey shows the 4th Industrial Revolution is happening now, enabled by the cloud.
- September 28, 2015
28 Sep'15
Using Apple iPads in manufacturing has mixed results
Two companies tried using Apple iPads in the warehouse, and they each had different experiences: one good, one bad. Here is their story.
- April 28, 2015
28 Apr'15
Manufacturing pioneers embrace product as a service
Despite the hoopla over the IoT, it's still early days for product as a service as manufacturers steer a slow course to new business models.