Facebook for Industry

New technologies can provide realtime operational intelligence (RtOI) to industry professionals the same way as Facebook provides real-time social intelligence (RtSI) to consumers.

Oct 1st, 2013

By utilizing new innovations in industrial software, mobile platforms and analytics, RtOI systems employ simple-tounderstand user interfaces with powerful back end intelligence that adds context and value to raw data.

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Spatial Computing and Digital Twin Drive Interactive AR Simulations

PTC’s Vuforia Engine Area Targets brings augmented reality and digital twin technologies together to create interactive, photorealistic simulations of factory environments.

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Artificial Intelligence Use in the Energy Sector Targets Operations Visibility

Canvass AI’s no-code artificial intelligence (AI) software aims to circumvent the digital skills gap by making AI more accessible for contextualizing data and identifying trends.

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OEM Digitally Transforms Its Business for Remote Support

BID Group, a sawmill equipment manufacturer, adopts PTC’s ThingWorx IIoT platform and Vuforia augmented reality technologies to reduce customer downtime and eliminate asset component failures.

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IoT Platform Partnerships Continue to Gain Traction

Fujitsu becomes a system integrator for PTC’s ThingWorx and Vuforia platforms to ease adoption and scaling of Internet of Things capabilities.

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Advantech and the Artificial Intelligence of Things

With more sophisticated computing, faster networking, and large-scale cloud-storage becoming readily available, Advantech sees artificial intelligence delivered to the edge as the future of IIoT.

Check out The Cobot Spot from Universal Robots

Check out The Cobot Spot from Universal Robots

Looking for automation solutions for packaging and palletizing? This is your destination for all things cobot. Whether it’s webinars, video case studies or product information, you’ll find it all in this one spot.

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Open AI Energy Initiative Partnership Formed

Shell, Baker Hughes, Microsoft, and C3 AI fuse their expertise to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence (AI) for energy sector applications.

How to Implement Edge Computing—From Concept to Launch

In this episode, we discuss how to successfully plan for and implement edge computing technologies at both OEM and manufacturing/processing facilities with Stratus Technologies' Aric Prost and John Vicente.

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Progress Continues on Industrial Open Source Software

With demand for interoperability in the industrial software and hardware space continuing to grow, the Eclipse Foundation releases a report on the status of the organization’s work in several areas affecting industrial technology.

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Work on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Standards Begins

Hoping to clear the path for the development of AI and machine learning standards, the Securing Artificial Intelligence Industry Specification Group has released a report highlighting the field’s predominant challenges.

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Integrating Process Safety, Visibility, and Cybersecurity

Following its acquisition by Hexagon, PAS explains how its software integrates with Hexagon’s technologies to address critical industrial process operations factors.

Check out The Cobot Spot from Universal Robots

Check out The Cobot Spot from Universal Robots

Looking for automation solutions for packaging and palletizing? This is your destination for all things cobot. Whether it’s webinars, video case studies or product information, you’ll find it all in this one spot.

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Device-to-Cloud Communications Bypass the Purdue Model

Endress+Hauser showcased how its Netillion platform bypasses the Purdue Model for more direct device to cloud communication while maintaining critical security levels.

Dick Slansky, senior analyst, ARC Advisory Group

How the Digital Twin Drives Smart Manufacturing

Discover how the digital twin is significantly impacting how companies implement smart manufacturing, in order to simulate, predict, optimize, and maintain products, assets, and production systems.

Technology Matters: Industrial Network and Sustainability Trends

In this video, we look at how automation technology advances are elevating the importance of industrial networks and how industrial sustainability efforts have—and have not—changed since 2016.

Diane Sacra, Director of Marketing, LNS Research

Get Connected to Protect Frontline Workforce and Increase Operational Agility

With workforce shortages and COVID-19 continuing to challenge manufacturers, find out how a connected workforce can drive improvement and competitive advantage while keeping employees safe.

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Network Portal Targets Interoperability

With the release of its PCH Portal, Parker Hannifin looks to address industry’s ongoing need to integrate disparate networks and devices with a flexible network portal capable of communicating across protocols, standards, and vendors.

Is the Cloud Beneficial for Small and Mid-Sized Manufacturers?

Learn how manufacturers are actually using cloud computing today and how it can be leveraged for optimal application by smaller manufacturing organizations in this discussion with Brian Fenn, COO of system integration company Avanceon.

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Emerson Takes on Magnolia Power Plant Project in Mississippi

Manufacturers aren’t the only adopters of Industry 4.0 technologies—the utility sector has long been active in the space as well, and the Tennessee Valley Authority has recently pledged $110 million to digitally transform its power generation fleet.

Siemens Industrial Edge v1.0 platform encompasses an edge management system, edge apps, and edge devices. Source: Siemens

Edge Computing Gets a Platform Focus

Recent announcements from Siemens and Stratus Technologies/Rockwell Automation show how edge computing is evolving into a platform for broader industrial digitalization applications.

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Production of the Atlas SUV at Volkswagen's Chattanooga, Tenn., site.

Volkswagen Expands Cloud Project Beyond Europe

The Industrial Cloud Initiative at Volkswagen, designed to streamline data gathering and analysis as well as best practice adoption, is expanding to one U.S. plant and two in Mexico.

Alec Konynenburg

Digitization – A Case For Manufacturing

Learn how implementing Industry 4.0 can improve your company’s productivity, opportunity, and growth from the Managing Director of Nukon.

A New Kind of Connected Factory

As a pandemic forces social distancing, manufacturers are using technology to stay connected, creating a new vision for how data is aggregated, shared, and acted upon to unite factories and people.

Dick Slansky, senior analyst, ARC Advisory Group

Moving to a More “Open” Environment

Discover how edge computing and open source software are important contributions to the successful implementation of IoT at your company.

CloudRail.Box features enable direct sensor-to-cloud connections.

Connecting Sensors to the Cloud

The “last mile” connection of lower-level plant floor devices to the cloud is the focus of a new partnership between ifm and CloudRail.

Duane Grob, Avanceon

Pre-Project Consulting Role for SI

Discover how incorporating a System Integrator at the beginning of your automation integration process can have a vital impact on the success of your overall project.

Sanjiv K Preferred

The Connected Plant in the Digital World

While most in the manufacturing industry understand the implications of a connected plant, less know why or how this shift should occur. Find out three actions your company should consider before making the transformation.

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Assessing Your Digital Transformation Status

From confronting specific industry sector issues to vision creation and analytics, there are a number of factors manufacturers should address carefully when preparing for or assessing the digitization of their operations.

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The Challenge of Manufacturing Data Management

What happens when automation and plant IT teams get past their differences and work together effectively? A chance for the company to outperform the competition and make progress on Industry 4.0 projects.

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Microsoft Extends Industrial Focus with Expanded Rockwell Automation Partnership

The aim of this new partnership is to connect development, operations, and maintenance teams through a “singular, trusted data environment” that extends from the edge to the cloud.

The Aventics AF2 Series flow sensor is an IIoT-enabled device that provides air consumption and leak detection analytics. Source: Emerson

Digital Transformation in Manufacturing: Small Steps or One Giant Leap?

How taking three practical steps can generate short-term wins and achieve long-term success with Industrial Internet of Things technologies.

Beginning the Digital Transformation Process

In this episode, we connect with Bill Pollock, CEO of Optimation, to explore how industrial companies are moving forward with their digital transformations. We discuss how to assess current operations, avoid common mistakes, and apply metrics.