I recently took part in a plant tour with a manufacturer in the early days of modernizing its plant floor. Two decades old, this factory had always relied on manual data collection. The team hand-carried operational data back to the office to be
There has been a lot of discussion lately around why IoT projects fail. Many projects stall at the proof of concept (POC) phase, and only about a quarter of these investments are considered a success. With these setbacks however, there are some
The Cisco IR 829 dual LTE gateway now delivers secure connectivity across multiple carriers with the simple management necessary to deploy and operate cost-effectively at scale as well as the edge application execution to transform IoT data into
We wrapped up the Hannover Messe event at the end of April in Hannover, Germany, and I can say one thing – Wow! The official numbers are still not in,...
After a very successful Hannover Messe event last week, our Cisco manufacturing team focuses this week on the annual CSIA Executive Conference, May 2-5, in Ft. Lauderdale.
At the 2017 Hannover Messe, dozens of manufacturing execs were trying to figure out how to move forward their platforms, teams, and philosophies to enable Industrie 4.0 outcomes at scale.