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…
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Manufacturing in the Age of AI
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…
Sage Clarity’s Digital Transformation Accelerator Apps (Insight)
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…
Siemens Advances IT/OT Convergence with Industrial Operations X (Insight)
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,…
Edge2Web Moves from Tools to Manufacturing Intelligence Application on AWS (Insight)
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…
What is Advanced Manufacturing? (podcast)
Manufacturing is constantly evolving, so how do you define advanced manufacturing? In this podcast episode, Julie Fraser and James Zhang, VP Market Development, Connected Operations at PTC, share their views. It starts with what constitutes advanced manufacturing today and how that has changed. New technologies can play a role, but are not sufficient. How a…