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IIoT Applications Deliver a Competitive Advantage to Process Industries
The IIoT essentially involves acquiring data from hundreds—if not thousands—of process and equipment sensors, and transmitting the data to central locations via wireless or hardwired networks. Once ac -
Connectivity, Productivity and Efficiency Benefits of IIoT Depend on Integrated Cybersecurity
The Industrial Internet of Things is an important advancement, and a real opportunity to increase ROI and asset value. But first, industrial control systems have to be made secure from hackers and cyb -
Bill’s Top 10 Automation & Control Trends for 2018 - A Year of Technology Driven Change
After another busy year talking to a wide range of users, suppliers and industry consultants, and attending over 20 industry conferences and related events, I have another year’s worth of informed insights to share on the latest trends that will shape automation in 2018. -
Internet of Things: Creating Customer Value from Home to Industry
Industrial companies are leveraging IoT connectivity so customers can have the same level of connectivity in their workplace as they do at home -
Why MQTT Is an Ideal Connectivity Protocol for the Industrial Internet of Things
MQTT appears to be a protocol with a good track record, good adoption, and unique suitability for industrial control systems and IIoT applications. -
How to Use the Cloud to Store and Distribute Manufacturing Data
The cloud is expanding and becoming valuable for improving manufacturing systems. -
How IIoT Revolutionizes Real-Time Plant Maintenance and Analytics
Data from automation and monitoring systems, leveraged with analytics, monitoring, and reporting, creates the basis for a real-time maintenance program. -
What Are the Benefits of Connected Manufacturing?
Connected manufacturing gives everyone in the organization a voice, from the shop-floor employees to the CEO. -
Separating Hype from the True Value of Industrial Big Data Analytics
Perhaps no other new technology comes with more promise to manufacturing executives than big data analytics for manufacturing and the process industries. -
IoT Is Ready for the Process Industries
For on-site & off-site analysis, industrial IoT delivers data to the right personnel without requiring connection to the plant’s real-time control system. -
Is the Internet of Things Creating Unfocused Urgency to Monitor Everything?
The hyper-focus on IoT is creating an unfocused urgency monitor everything, which could lead to over instrumenting automation systems & creating data noise. -
How to Succeed with the Industrial Internet of Things
To achieve success with the IIoT, industrial businesses and manufacturers must create a long-term vision with an associated value proposition, -
Book Excerpt + Author Q&A: Industrial Ethernet
Industrial Internet is a guidebook for people who need to fully understand factory floor Ethernet and features new sections on Industrial Internet of Things -
Webinar: Benefits of Integrating IIoT-Ready PLC and DCS Platforms
An IIoT-ready PLC should optimize operations and maintenance efficiencies to liberate personnel from manual processes. -
What are the Challenges of the Industrial Internet of Things?
As IIoT technology develops, challenges on its adoption are beginning to dissipate. -
The Internet of Everything Delivers Smart Manufacturing
There is a greater transition to “smart manufacturing” environments which use standardized IP-centric networks to leverage the Internet of Everything. -
Industrial Big Data Analytics: Present and Future
Big data storage and fast processing capabilities need to become one hybrid system. -
Industrial Automation Industry Exploring and Implementing the Internet of Things
The industrial automation industry is starting to explore and implement Internet of Things concepts and technology. -
Big Data Focus at 2013 ISA Water/Wastewater Symposium
Big Data is Big News in just about every corner of our digitally connected world. Leveraging massive amounts of process data archives is a game changer for practically any industrial process, enabling -
Web-Enabling Your PLC
Enough has been written during the past couple years to convince most plant managers of the benefits of connecting plant floor equipment and processes to the Internet or Intranet. So, now that we're all convinced of the benefits of web-enabled automation, what pieces and parts are required to put this technology to work?
