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Topics: Industrial Internet, Industry 4.0, IIoT, Automation
We’ve talked about Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) here before. So, it should come as no surprise that, for our next look at collaboration, we are going to talk about what role machines play in improving manufacturing efficiency.
This issue is at the forefront of so many conversations about what is next for connected manufacturing. A recent article in the technology and science newspaper, The Register, discussed the next iteration of the mobile network, 5G, whose initial standards are set to be released in 2020.
We’ll cover this in greater detail in a future post, but what you need to understand for the purposes of this article is that ultra-fast, low latency wireless internet is on the horizon and being built to accommodate the needs of industry and the IIoT. What this means is that the manufacturing industry is going to see rapid changes in infrastructure, processing and automation capabilities. It will also mean a much more focused transition to IIoT, which will filter its way down to nearly all industries and business sizes.
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Topics: Industry 4.0, IIoT, collaboration, Automation
When evaluating new ways to implement best practices at your company, asking the right questions can be just as helpful as the answers you come up with. This is important on a number of levels, but most impactful is the effect on the bottom line and faster deliverables.
The business relationships we have, whether they be with vendors, customers, prospects or departments, are a good place to begin looking for what questions to ask. All of these collaborative connecting points are rife for process improvement initiatives.
We broke these manufacturing touch points down into four defined areas, which are:
- Collaboration Between Departments
- Collaboration with Vendors
- Collaboration with Machines
- Collaboration with Customers
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Topics: Industry 4.0, collaboration, Smart Factory, Big Data
Our world of people, places and things is coming together in some interesting and challenging ways. For those in manufacturing, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is connecting people, places and things in ever more functional and innovative ways, and it is changing the fabric of how things get made.
SEE ALSO: 15 Resources to Improve Your Understanding of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
It is also starting to change expectations. Customers are going to be more demanding as they learn the cost savings and time efficiencies that can be delivered in a Smart Factory. Additionally, this connectivity will also enable a much greater degree of customization, and the capacity to support increasingly smaller batch sizes.
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Topics: Industry 4.0, IIoT, The Connected Enterprise, Data Portal, Big Data
We are living in fast times with design and production going through disruptive changes. The biggest change is the amount of connectivity to people, places and things. This is what the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is all about. Here are 5 ways Big Data will help your business stay competitive.
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Topics: Industry 4.0, IIoT, Smart Factory, Big Data
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Topics: Industry 4.0, IIoT, The Connected Enterprise, Smart Factory
In any project, you want to use the right tool for the job. In electrical engineering design, because of its inherent complexity, this is especially true. The scope of an electrical project can be particularly unwieldy when the tools being used were not created for this kind of work.
Take, for instance, traditional CAD software, which was originally created for architectural design. AutoCAD, for instance, treats each page independently and creates a separate file for each page. However, electrical engineering designs are multiple page schematics, with all pages needing to be connected. This is the fundamental problem with using traditional CAD software in electricalengineering design work
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Topics: Industry 4.0, IIoT, Automation, CAE, CAD, Electrical Engineering
When it comes to design automation, it isn’t too hard to predict what the future will be, because it is already happening.
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Topics: Industry 4.0, IIoT, Automation, e-CAD, CAE, CAD, Smart Factory
Technology is disrupting nearly every industry and manufacturing is not immune…which is a good thing.
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Topics: Industry 4.0, IIoT, The Connected Enterprise, Database-Driven Design, Smart Factory
Collaboration in a multidiscipline team environment can be a challenge. Stakeholders, with their eyes on different aspects of the project, present a potential impediment to successful and timely completion. The following are 3 key areas to look at when working with multidiscipline teams.
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Topics: Industrial Internet, Engineering Efficiency, Industry 4.0, The Connected Enterprise, data consistency, project management
