TwinThread Seminar Series: Achieving Your Manufacturing Goals in the Age of Uncertainty Using an AI-Assisted Top-Down / Bottom-Up Process to Accelerate Innovation & Operationalize Results Typical Manufacturing Exec Scorecard We all have them - scorecards and goals. We all have operating plans ...

Substandard Standards and Their Committees Industrial and Enterprise software standards are ubiquitous especially as it relates to connectivity and interoperability. The real opportunity today lies in innovation enablement through data insights- standards are not going to address this challenge. ...

The Paradox of ‘Big Cloud’ Hyperscalers and Scaling IIoT Solutions The security-centric pitch of hyperscalers is compelling, but it often fails to address the need for sustainability and scalability in the development of IIoT solutions. Security should be equally prioritized with the need to ...

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