
Digital Factory Solutions (report series) | Agile Innovation – Crossing the IT/OT Divide
The only way to innovate is to collaborate. In the fourth installment in our new series on smart manufacturing technologies, UK-based global editor-in-chief editor James Blackman looks at how the …

Making Industry Smarter (report series) | Metals & Mining – Digging with Data
Digging for gold. The digital transformation of the metals and mining sectors – a review of the strategies, technologies and stakes in play as the mining industry seeks more sustainable …

Digital Factory Solutions Report Series: Operational Intelligence
How is data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) transforming the manufacturing sector? In the third installment in a new series on smart manufacturing technologies, UK-based global editor-in-chief editor James Blackman …

Editorial Report: IoT Connectivity – Who’s Winning What?
For all the experience of LTE and excitement of 5G, the IoT market has been propped by low-power wide-area (LPWA) technologies. The concept of smart-anything as the prerequisite for industrial …

Editorial Report | Making Industry Smarter Report Series: Energy & Power
With localised power generation, the flow of electricity and data has to go both ways. New electricity metering infrastructure establishes an integrated system of meter hardware, communications networks, and data …

Editorial Report | Making Industry Smarter Series – Connecting Agriculture
The digital transformation of the agricultural sector – a review of the strategies, technologies and stakes in play as farmers seek more sustainable and competitive ways to feed the world.

Editorial Report | Digital Factory Solutions Series – Industrial LTE and 5G
How will incoming cellular technologies transform smart manufacturing? In the first installment in a new series on smart manufacturing technologies, UK-based global editor-in-chief editor James Blackman looks at the role …

Editorial Report: Making Industry Smarter Series – From supply chain to demand chain
If the internet of things (IoT), utilising both low-power and high-bandwidth connectivity, establishes an architectural springboard for digital change, then AI provides the industrial elasticity that will make the market …

Editorial Report: AI and IoT at the cutting edge – when to move industrial intelligence closer to the action
Operational intelligence does not come just by connecting machines; it requires advanced analytics to sort the data and recommend a course of action. Many critical use cases at the edge …

Editorial Report: How to buy and sell a smart city – Procurement models to make every city smart
The problem with smart cities is no one wants to buy them. Because no one knows how to sell them. The technology is proven, but the commercial models are only …