September 2016 marked an important milestone in the purposeful development and intelligent evolution of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), namely the publication of the Industrial Internet ...

There’s a well-known old parable about some blind men who, upon meeting an elephant for the first time, try to appraise it and figure out just what exactly an elephant is. One man feels the elephant’s ...

IoT's business benefits -- among them better intelligence, increased productivity and improved asset management -- are well known. Industrial IoT is poised to bring the same advantages to industrial ...

Innovative IIoT technologies and solutions are slowly becoming omnipresent at major trade shows and on the factory floor from machine controllers to field devices, to software and communications.

Manufacturing execution systems (MES) have undergone many transformations in the past several years—from simple point solutions to comprehensive shop floor systems that are now mission-critical to ...

We all are aware of the concept of turning on and off the lights with the mobile phone. For manufacturers, it is possible to achieve it with the help of IoT (Internet of thing). IoT is a very simple ...

Here is a generic business case example for a medium-sized manufacturer’s IIoT strategy to optimize operations, increase efficiency, reduce downtime and enhance competitiveness. As manufacturing ...

How wireless technology, IIoT, and good cybersecurity practices can support modern mining and metals facilities. Modern metals and mining companies are sophisticated and often highly automated ...

In a 2018 survey conducted by Inmarsat, a provider of satellite communications, one quarter of survey respondents said they anticipated spending at least 10% of their IT budgets over the next three ...

IIoT has the ability to significantly transform many industrial sectors, both in discrete manufacturing and the process industries. Across the emerging IIoT ecosystem there will be an extremely large ...