Making the value of technology clear
As highlighted in a McKinsey report, “From Field to Remote Operations: Embracing Change to Enable Growth,” maximizing the efficiency of field service technicians is becoming increasingly crucial for organizations, especially as they face the retirement of their experienced field service technicians. Field service technicians also act as ambassadors for their company and directly impact their…
Can MES be available for manufacturers of all sizes, with reasonable pricing, the ability to connect to automation, fast implementation, and credible operations IT know-how behind it? Kanoa is aiming to achieve that goal by building MES modules on top of Inductive Automation’s Ignition platform. Kanoa is building MES in a low-/no-code platform that is…
What defines Manufacturing in the Age of AI? How much progress are companies making toward Industry 4.0? What data management elements have leading manufactures put in place to support rapid decisions? Our eBook Manufacturing in the Age of AI explains the findings of our survey of over 300 manufacturing professionals. It reveals answers to these…
Manufacturers desperately want faster results from their Industry 4.0 and digital transformation projects. The promise of lightweight apps sparkles, but most companies lack the essential data infrastructure. So, it was eye-opening to understand what serial entrepreneur John Oskin has been up to at Sage Clarity. These are apps that, after a few weeks’ implementation, can…
Are the next steps of IT/OT convergence at hand? Siemens would say yes. IT and OT are blending more than ever in some new offerings under an umbrella of data-driven manufacturing. Siemens just announced the expansion of their Totally Integrated Automation (TIA) framework into Industrial Operations X. Industrial Operations X includes Industrial IoT, Industrial Edge,…
As a production metrics maven, I’m energized by a recent briefing for Jim Brown and me with Edge2Web, Inc. about their expansion to a second platform and first foray into applications. Now its low-code IoT tools Director and Flow Server run both on Siemens Digital Industries Software MindSphere and Amazon Web Services (AWS). This opens…