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State of things | Smart manufacturing (part 4): Buying digital change

This article is the fourth instalment in a series taken from a longer report, Smart manufacturing: asset management, predictive maintenance, dynamic scheduling and other use cases, from August 2018. The report tells the story of smart manufacturing in four chapters. The first two examine...

State of things | Smart manufacturing (part 3): Use case modelling

This article is the third instalment in a series taken from a longer report, Smart manufacturing: asset management, predictive maintenance, dynamic scheduling and other use cases, from August 2018. The report tells the story of smart manufacturing in four chapters. The first two examine the...

Exhaust pipes, SCADA systems and sausages: Five smart manufacturing use cases

Momentum is building, fast, for smart manufacturing. Here, Enterprise IoT Insights presents five more use cases from leading industrial IoT (IIoT) solutions providers. Also, check out the major new report on the state of smart manufacturing from Enterprise IoT Insights. 1 | DYNAMIC SCHEDULING |...

Appetite for smart manufacturing grows, but the market remains troubled and confused

The appetite for new digital technologies is growing among manufacturers, with certain brands in certain sectors in certain regions experiencing a considerable uplift in performance. But the take-up of smart manufacturing solutions remains tentative, as companies are unsure how to start with digital change...

Hirotec adopts smart factory concept to reduce downtime

Predictive maintenance is a key smart manufacturing use case Japanese company Hirotec Group, one of the largest private production companies in the global automotive market, wanted to implement Industry 4.0 innovations to tackle unplanned downtime. To achieve this, the company paired an IoT platform from Hewlett...