IIoT Curator 2018

Past two months, we were redesigning our whole website and were quite tied up in ensuring our new look and feel is not only beautiful but very user-friendly. Also, all the old assets are intact and are accessible. After two months of a break, we are back with a monthly basket of worthy IoT stories and facts from Industrial IoT world. In this issue, we present you stories on how enterprises can get more by marrying newer technologies with their existing technologies. We have a facts finding, insightful story about real, real IoT Projects and we also have an interesting article talking about tapping into the power of IIoT And Big Data.

Getting more from your OT systems

Although the manufacturing world is fast moving with adoption on new Industrial Edge technology, vast majority decision makers still have questions about “Why do I need IoT when I have MES, SCADA, CDS, ERP?” It is undeniable fact that the operational technology (OT) of DCS, SCADA, PLC, Historian, MES have been ingrained in manufacturing land for decades now. Several machine data is fetched into these systems and some dashboards are derived from the stored data. However, the old OT technology is fragmented, siloed and inefficient when it comes to complete picture of a plant or a factory. There exists a huge gap between IT and OT. Moreover, within manufacturing, the teams are implementing siloed incremental innovations but fail to achieve leap of change. This is where the IoT becomes a game changer. This article presents a comparative study and how IoT completes the picture. Manufacturers can greatly tap into the power of IoT to get more from their existing OT systems.

Unlocking the power of IIoT And Big Data

“The promise of IoT is well understood in the industry. This idea that we can finally harness the data coming in from all of these different sources, whether they are machines, humans, parts – but I think the real challenge is the next step – how do I execute? That’s the challenge.”- says Hester, manager at Hirotec, a tier-one Japanese automobile parts manufacturer, supplying components directly to makers such as GM, Ford, and BMW. Exploring this further, Forbes has published an interesting article on how to unlock the power of IIoT and Big Data in manufacturing. The article goes into how the team picked up smaller project, identified data gathering process, created plans for visualization and reporting, and how finally the power of big data analytics helped in decision making. Any manufacturer still sitting on the fence should read this article to gain confidence in IoT.

What we learn from Live IoT projects

Lastly, no matter how many “Gyan” and information you have gathered, unless and until you have real proof of successes and failures of IoT projects, the savvy manufacturer won’t trust anything. Cynthia Artin of IoT Evolution has put together very insightful research article based on real IoT Projects around the world. She goes beyond the proof of concept or beyond use cases and studied 1600 real projects where real problems for real customers are solved for. She has cited several examples of how companies are using IoT and whats working or not working. Bulk majority projects are from Smart City, Industrial Settings, and Connected Building. This is absolutely a must-read article for manufacturers who are exploring IoT projects.

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