The supply chain is dead; long live the demand chain! How AI is tilting the balance between supply and demand
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailFor digital transformation of the supply chain, artificial intelligence (AI) is effectively the only game in town. This is because it is the only technological discipline that knits together a …
State of things | Smart manufacturing (part 4): Buying digital change
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThis 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 …
State of things | Smart manufacturing (part 3): Use case modelling
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThis 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 …
State of things | Smart manufacturing (part 1): The hype and the glory
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThis article is 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 …
Hitachi opens smart factory hub for Southeast Asia
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail Through the new facility, Hitachi aims to foster the adoption of smart factory technology in Asia Japanese firm Hitachi has opened a digital services hub in Thailand with …
Exhaust pipes, SCADA systems and sausages: Five smart manufacturing use cases
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailMomentum 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 …
Appetite for smart manufacturing grows, but the market remains troubled and confused
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe 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 …
Beer, cars and robots: Five smart manufacturing use cases
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailMomentum is building, fast, for smart manufacturing. Here, Enterprise IoT Insights presents five use cases from five leading industrial IoT (IIoT) solutions providers. Also, look out for the report and …
From AI to AR: The top 10 (+1) smart manufacturing platforms
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailA new investigation by analyst house ABI Research has ranked the top smart manufacturing platforms, and placed PTC’s ThingWorx top of the pile. PTC has ranked at the top consistently …
What is Lean Six Sigma (Black Belt), and why is it important for industrial IoT?
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe Lean Six Sigma doctrine proposes a set of data-oriented management techniques to eliminate defects and raise quality in process-driven environments. It has become standard in manufacturing. In essence, it …
