Manufacturing
Getting Quality Control Right
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True quality control is fixing problems before they become issues leading to a recall.
Digitization@Work: The Manufacturing Plant
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Digitization is rapidly transforming the manufacturing industry. Manufacturers are now tracking supplies and resources, viewing work flow status, measuring production yield, and predicting downtime through extensive data collection and analytics in real time. Companies that digitize their operation will leave behind those relying on legacy systems. In fact, nearly 4 of the top 10 incumbents […]
General Motors Prevents Factory Downtime with Connected Machines
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Factory workers often learn about issues with their production machinery too late - after the line shuts down. Real-time condition monitoring and diagnostics can prevent unplanned downtime.
Rockwell Automation Wins the 2016 Engineers’ Choice Award!
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We are pleased to congratulate our industry partner Rockwell Automation for having won, for the third year in a row, the Control Engineering 2016 Engineers’ Choice Award in the Network Integration – Ethernet hardware Products category. This year, the voting session saw more than 140,000 industrial engineers responsible for automation, control, and instrumentation technologies. The final voting […]
5 Cybersecurity conversations you aren’t having
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In a recent meeting I saw this meme posted in a cubicle: How appropriate for a discussion on business executive moments of enlightenment. I have the opportunity to lead a line-of-business senior executive advisory board with members from the top manufacturing companies across the world. Our recent board meeting focused on digitization in manufacturing where […]
Librestream and GBM Improve Safety with Rapid Response in the Field
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Here’s a great story of how one of our oil and gas customers is making use of a sophisticated video collaboration solution in the field to accelerate response to issues and make significant improvements in safety and overall communication, especially in hazardous areas.
See Industries 4.0 Digital Manufacturing in Berlin
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This week at Cisco Live Berlin we are excited to share three new digital manufacturing demonstrations: • Cisco’s Connected Machine Solution powered by Mazak’s
Closing the Knowledge Gap in Manufacturing: Converge IT with OT
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Recently, the article “Making IoT Pay in Manufacturing” in Forbes caught my eye with a few interesting statistics from a recent study: 71% of manufacturers say IoT will have a significant impact or some impact on their business over the next five years (24% and 47% respectively) Yet 24% have no company wide understanding of […]
3 Secrets to Going Digital from Flex’s CIO
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What are the secrets to a successful digital transformation? We’re exploring that in our Going Digital podcast hosted by Peter High, President of Metis Strategy, Author and Keynote...
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