seIn any manufacturing industry, particularly in one with geographically distributed assets, reliable monitoring of assets (people, process, and equipment) can be quite a challenge. This challenge arises from multiple causes. For example, onsite staff may be limited or critical equipment failure can occur without warning, creating blockades along the chain. In this situation, remote monitoring presents […]
The last decade has witnessed an explosive growth in the number of IoT-driven connected devices in the manufacturing landscape. This explosion has led to a flood of data being generated within the ecosystem, from the production floors and spreading across the entire supply chain. Undoubtedly, in the coming years, this data deluge will continue to […]
Industry 4.0 is at its zenith, with the new trends and technologies transforming the way businesses are run. Also referred to as the fourth industrial revolution, it encompasses the amalgamation of automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies. The traditional models of production are shifting towards newer approaches, such as smart manufacturing and smart factory. […]
With IoT capturing the imagination of the manufacturing environment, every nook and corner of the production landscape is singing praises of IoT-driven solutions and their advantages, including quick time-to-market, reduced costs of manufacturing, exponentially high productivity, and the list goes on. Across verticals that threaten to go the commodity route, immediate availability of assets and […]
Manufacturing organizations, both discrete and process industries, are engrossed in firing up their systems and processes to win the digital transformation race and get straight into Industry X.0. However, being an asset-intensive industry inching super close to commoditization in most verticals, every manufacturer needs all the technology-enabled differentiators possible to give them an edge in […]