BROWSING: PI System
Aveva to buy OSIsoft for $5bn to service ‘largest digital-change projects in history’
UK based software company Aveva, majority owned by France based automation specialist Schneider Electric, has struck a deal to acquire US data management outfit OSIsoft for $5 billion. OSIsoft is backed by Japan-based tech firm Softbank. The pair said they will “service the largest...
Crossing the IT/OT divide – co-configuration and real scale (part 4)
This article continues from here. It is an excerpt from a full report, called ‘Crossing the IT/OT divide – from co-creation to co-configuration, and how to bring industrial IoT to scale’. The report, part of Enterprise IoT Insights’ ongoing Digital Factory Solutions series, is...
Crossing the IT/OT divide – bridge-building and co-creation (part 3)
This article continues from here. It is an excerpt from a full report, called ‘Crossing the IT/OT divide – from co-creation to co-configuration, and how to bring industrial IoT to scale’. The report, part of Enterprise IoT Insights’ ongoing Digital Factory Solutions series, is...
Crossing the IT/OT divide – the blame game and the magic box (part 2)
This article continues from here. It is an excerpt from a full report, called ‘Crossing the IT/OT divide – from co-creation to co-configuration, and how to bring industrial IoT to scale’. The report, part of Enterprise IoT Insights’ ongoing Digital Factory Solutions series, is...
Crossing the IT/OT divide – IT solutions and OT problems (part 1)
This is an excerpt from a full report called ‘Crossing the IT/OT divide – from co-creation to co-configuration, and how to bring industrial IoT to scale’. The report, part of Enterprise IoT Insights’ ongoing Digital Factory Solutions series, is available to download (for free)...
Why (most) industrial IoT platforms suck – and solve nothing by themselves
Sometimes content gets left on the cutting room floor, and sometimes it does not even make the edit. And often that content is excellent, and deserves a feature all of its own. This is a (delayed) retelling of a briefing Enterprise IoT Insights had...
“Utilities don’t need AI yet – they just need better human access to data,” says OSIsoft
One key element that was skirted around in Enterprise IoT Insights’ recent report on digital change in the power sector: the nitty-gritty of data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI). We referenced these as key disciplines – as the real art of digital change, in...
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...
OSIsoft brings PI System to AWS with ‘quick start’ and ‘integration’ tools
OSIsoft's PI System is now available on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The company has launched a suite of products to enable industrial players to more easily run and manage its data management platform, which unites data from operational and information environments, on AWS.
These...
Caterpillar and OSIsoft debut AI platform to reduce costs for shipping industry
The marine division of US machinery and equipment maker Caterpillar has integrated OSIsoft’s data management system into its industrial artificial intelligence (AI) platform to help shipping companies reduce fuel and maintenance costs and increase uptime.
The resulting asset intelligence platform combines OSIsoft’s PI System, which...
The data goldmine – how Aurelia Metals got smart digging for gold with data
Gold mining is like manufacturing in reverse. Instead of putting things together, you smash them up, mix with chemicals, and dry them out. Every process can be tuned with data, and the result is… a product: pure gold, worth AUS$1,300 per ounce.
The application of...