5 Benefits of the IIoT in Manufacturing
The IIoT is no longer a distant promise for the future. It’s here today. And, it’s one more reason to embrace digital transformation in your manufacturing enterprise.
February 11, 2021
Category: Digital Thread
User Acceptance Will Decide if Your Digital Transformation Journey is a
Here are several obvious and not-so-obvious factors that can have a big influence on whether your employees will embrace the new technology that is given to them.
January 21, 2021
MES, ERP & PLM Integration: A Blueprint for Success
The digital transformation that underlies Industry 4.0 relies on capturing contextual data and aggregating it in such a way to improve decision support and operational excellence.
December 15, 2020
Tying Together All the Threads of a Digital Cloth
This post is a look into the types of digital continuity where all the threads originate and the types of data they bring together, tying all the threads of a digital cloth.
July 21, 2020
Technology’s Role in Shifting Manufacturing Back to Industrialized
As we mark the halfway point through 2020, it certainly has been a year of disruption, extreme challenge, and rapid change. Technology has played a central role in solving issues, creating new opportunities, and accelerating the rate of change that is now possible.
July 14, 2020
The Digital Cloth of a Model-Based MRO Enterprise
To weave a Digital Cloth, MRO centric industries should expect more focus on sustainment and lifetime program support.
July 01, 2020
Digital Cloth Is the Fabric of Industry 4.0
For companies that accept they need to weave all their loose threads together into a digital cloth, here is a blueprint on how to begin that process as part of their journey towards an Industry 4.0 future.
June 17, 2020
Weaving Digital Threads into a Digital Cloth
A Digital Thread provides the data framework, and the reality is that multiple threads are coexisting, which sometimes resemble a tangled ball of virtual string. The solution to untangling these multiple threads and providing true cross-silo and multi-enterprise data flows is to weave the digital threads into a Digital Cloth.
June 09, 2020
Digital Continuity – The First Step to Creating an Industry Ecosystem
As new digital marketplaces continue to evolve and expand, there is a risk of being left behind if investments are not made today to be part of this ecosystem. Fortunately, an industry ecosystem can be readily established that is valuable to customers and end users. Continue reading to learn about first steps.
January 20, 2020
New Standards for the Industrial IoT in Manufacturing
The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has released new standards for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) designed to provide a connectivity framework that can be held in common by IT companies, manufactures and providers of operational technology (OT).
October 18, 2019
Automation Driving Digital Transformation
Companies automating and integrating in the IT dimension are moving the needle towards digital manufacturing faster while getting immediate benefits from modern manufacturing execution systems.
July 09, 2019
Digital Maturity Translates into Market Dominance
Digitally advanced companies are not just those focused on the consumer. As it turns out, there are digitization champions in just about every vertical. This includes the aerospace and defense industries where the goal is comprehensive digitization of manufacturing to encompass all shop floor, administrative, management and supply chain interactions.
June 26, 2019