The Ubiquitous Connect and Visualize Platform The basic IIoT platform includes features that facilitate automated connection to data sources, data contextualization, rudimentary analytics, and visualization through dashboards and reports. These offerings, along with the companies that develop them ...

The Stack and the Twin IIoT platforms and solutions come in many different shapes and sizes, and it can be challenging to understand the differences and determine which is the best fit for a manufacturer or field equipment provider. This series will examine various IIoT platform approaches, what is ...

I’ve been reflecting on the substantial changes in our economic, political, and environmental climates over the last year. And, because I work with industrial companies, I’ve been considering how technology can enable or disable their resilience (the ability to continue forward despite external ...

Run a quick Google search on “manufacturing energy crisis,” and the results are nothing short of alarming. Across Europe, in particular, headlines characterize manufacturers as “embattled.” Some publications even raise the specter of factories “going dark” this winter.

We are at an inflection point in how industrial companies manage complex equipment assets, whether inside a factory or deployed in the field. These assets traditionally require highly skilled workers with deep domain expertise around the specific asset and its application. The Covid pandemic over ...

The ‘E’ in ESG refers to environmental concerns, and in the context of industrial manufacturers, the optimization of energy usage. 

New downtime analysis, batch optimization, and process visualization tools deliver timely functionality improvements to counter increasingly challenging operating conditions

Why tackling energy reduction in isolation doesn’t make sense and a better way to go Over time I’ve consulted with, worked on, and otherwise participated in all sorts of natural resource savings and conservation projects - usually with Fortune 500 size manufacturing companies. 

"Looking at the broader view of the opportunity - it could be from a financial... or efficiencies [perspective] - ... energy efficiencies, labor efficiencies, diverting resources to different areas that you may not have [thought of] before..." —Darren Haverkamp Technical Director, Colgate-Palmolive ...

"You've got to identify those companies that are willing to invest their time, their resources, and their technologies in you as a partner." —Warren Pruitt VP Global Engineering Services, Colgate-Palmolive  

"The goal was to convert out of the black book and into prescribed startup conditions based on the algorithms within the Digital Twin." —Darren Haverkamp Technical Director, Colgate-Palmolive  

In our last installment, we covered the role of low-code/no-code technologies in empowering your organization to keep pace with change. This installment focuses on this need from another angle: the need to rapidly scale from pilot program, to broader rollout, to full enterprise use.