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May 29, 2021 | 
Why Industry 4.0 Adoption Has a Significant Upside
When manufacturing began to embrace digital technology a decade ago, it acquired a new term: smart manufacturing, or Industry 4.0. By incorporating cloud, automation, advanced analytics, machine learning, and big data into manufacturing and supply chain management operations, a connected…
May 26, 2021 |
Industry 4.0: Strengthening Maintenance and Reliability
Industry 3.0 pioneered the idea of automated mass manufacturing, enabling the efficient production of millions of similar goods. As the process's pace and size grew, labor became an impediment, ushering in an era of outsourcing. Manufacturers rapidly outsourced labor-intensive operations…
May 24, 2021 |
Three Human Factors Critical to Industry 4.0 initiatives
Manufacturers worldwide are under pressure to modernize their factory workforces, but 57 percent of manufacturing leaders report that their company lacks the trained staff necessary to support digitization plans, according to a Gartner, Inc. survey. The survey found that manufacturers…
May 18, 2021 |
Four ways asset OEMs, owners & operators can remove roadblocks to delivering intelligence
This and the last year has been eventful for all sectors, but the pandemic has been particularly devastating for the manufacturing sector, which relies on the delicate balancing of supply chains to work effectively. As one of the first industries…
May 17, 2021 |
Take control of your proprietary data
The current IoT landscape is highly OEM-centric - it is heavily OEM-data-biased and at first services the interests of the equipment manufacturer. The end customers, the asset operators, plant owners, and process owners, have been sharing their operational data with…