US manufacturers are lagging on digital transformation, says report
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailUS manufacturers have been slow to adopt digital manufacturing processes, and embrace digital transformation. This is the conclusion of a new report by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), …
Six challenges for smart manufacturing and industrial IoT
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailResearch house Strategy Analytics has produced a report, in conjunction with low-power wide-area (LPWA) network provider Actility, that considers the opportunities and the challenges of internet-of-things (IoT) technologies in smart …
What is Lean Six Sigma (Black Belt), and why is it important for industrial IoT?
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailThe 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 …
Speaking the language: the collision of OT and IT
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailOperational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) have been living in two different worlds for a very long time. Historically, they have looked at things very differently. With the emergence …
G20 countries ranked on progress towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailThe latest index of countries’ progress against the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) makes for grim reading. No country is on track to achieve the targets, set out by the …
The IIoT interview (pt3) “We’re selling innovations, not solutions,” says Hitachi
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailIn the final instalment in our industrial IoT trilogy with Hitachi, Greg Kinsey, in charge of the company’s digital transformation business, says innovation is not available to pre-order and take-away, …
Motor cars and gas turbines: Two ‘predictive downtime’ use cases from Hitachi
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailAs we have seen already, through separate discussion of Hitachi’s approach to ‘predictive quality’ and ‘dynamic scheduling’, the digital transformation of industry is multi-faceted. There is a third way, apart …
The IIoT intervew: “Edge computing is the death of the cloud as we know it,” says IIC
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailWhere is the edge of the data network, where compute power increasingly resides? This is the question industrial operatives are asking, as they look to combine advanced connectivity technologies and …
Planes, computers and books: Three ‘dynamic scheduling’ use cases from Hitachi
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailThere are three strands to industrial transformation, reckons Hitachi Vantara, the digital change unit of Japanese hardware and software maker Hitachi. The point is to eliminate, or at least manage …
Drugs, steel and tyres: Three ‘predictive quality’ use cases from Hitachi
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailHitachi sets about the task of industrial transformation with its customers by posing three simple, but very pointed, questions. “What if you could predict and prevent production downtime? What if …
