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- EH&S|
  The Smart Industry 50
  
  Our 2017 honorees are making digital revolution real.
  
  By Keith Larson, Editor in Chief Even revolutions are hard to see when you’re in the midst of them. Certainly, there’s a generous dose of marketing hype around the potential of the Industrial Internet of Things, cloud computing and big data analytics to advance industrial performance and remake business models. But speak to those on the front lines of digital innovation and their stories make clear that industry is indeed in the midst of an accelerating transformation made possible by increasingly powerful and accessible digital technology. “Some say we’re in the midst of a fourth industrial revolution,” says Steve Jones of Steelcase, one of the class of 2017 Smart Industry 50 honorees. “That’s a bold statement, but I think…
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  Mesh networking tackles in-plant obstacles
  
  Follow the money to find case for IIoT
  
  The transformative power of enterprise connectivity
  
  How to justify your first IIoT trial
- Services Innovation|
  The last generation to remember a product-based economy?
  
  What does this mean for manufacturers?
  
  Generation Z, those born between the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s, will be the last generation to remember a product-based economy, according to a new global research report “The Rise of Asset and Service Data Gravity”, conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of ServiceMax from GE Digital. As the trend to servitization (bundling services with products) and the appetite for outcome-based contracts and business models continues, 77% of those surveyed believe Gen Z will be the last generation to experience an economy dominated by products alone without any embedded services or outcomes. The research, which surveyed 600 IT decision makers and field service management leaders across the USA, UK, France, Germany, Turkey, UAE and Saudi Arabia,…
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  TRUMPF expands training capabilities
  
  Q&A: New York Power Authority CEO Gil Quiniones
  
  Excelling in the age of information abundance
  
  Indegy launches industrial security-risk-assessment service
- Process Innovation|
  The last generation to remember a product-based economy?
  
  What does this mean for manufacturers?
  
  Generation Z, those born between the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s, will be the last generation to remember a product-based economy, according to a new global research report “The Rise of Asset and Service Data Gravity”, conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of ServiceMax from GE Digital. As the trend to servitization (bundling services with products) and the appetite for outcome-based contracts and business models continues, 77% of those surveyed believe Gen Z will be the last generation to experience an economy dominated by products alone without any embedded services or outcomes. The research, which surveyed 600 IT decision makers and field service management leaders across the USA, UK, France, Germany, Turkey, UAE and Saudi Arabia,…
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  Honeywell event focuses on digital transformation
  
  Autonomous Solutions & Barrick Gold autonomous haulage
  
  TRUMPF expands training capabilities
  
  PTC and Rockwell Automation partner to drive innovation
- Human Capital|
  Making work smarter, making workers safer
  
  IBM's Omer Arad uses digital tools to protect flesh and bone.
  
  Omer Arad, IBM researcher/developer and member of the Forbes Israel 30 Under 30 class of 2018, IBM's Omer Arad specializes in applying elements of the IoT for personal safety, using voice and gesture activation to identify workers’ behavior patterns and tapping artificial intelligence and sensor data to prevent accidents in hazardous work environments. We chatted with him about workplace safety, how age affects digital adoption, and the role of safety in IIoT initiatives. Take a look… Smart Industry: What’s new in personal safety? Omer: We are working on research connected to wearable devices, which are worn on the bodies and collect biometic data. We use ID tags that generate real-time data in order to protect workers in extreme…
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  Leveraging digital tools to advance lean initiatives
  
  Publisher’s Road Notes: Educating the manufacturing workforce
  
  The Smart Industry 50
  
  Exponential IT/OT convergence will change industry
- Efficiency|
  The last generation to remember a product-based economy?
  
  What does this mean for manufacturers?
  
  Generation Z, those born between the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s, will be the last generation to remember a product-based economy, according to a new global research report “The Rise of Asset and Service Data Gravity”, conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of ServiceMax from GE Digital. As the trend to servitization (bundling services with products) and the appetite for outcome-based contracts and business models continues, 77% of those surveyed believe Gen Z will be the last generation to experience an economy dominated by products alone without any embedded services or outcomes. The research, which surveyed 600 IT decision makers and field service management leaders across the USA, UK, France, Germany, Turkey, UAE and Saudi Arabia,…
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  Honeywell event focuses on digital transformation
  
  Autonomous Solutions & Barrick Gold autonomous haulage
  
  IIC publishes edge computing in IIoT white paper
  
  Siemens, Bentley Systems launch Process Industries Academy
- Uptime|
  A digital approach to an ancient craft
  
  Data analytics meets craft beer. Cheers!
  
  In September, Tim Alexander presents “Deschutes Boosts Quality, Throughput with Predictive Analytics” at Deschutes' Tim Alexander the 2018 Smart Industry Conference. Today the brewery-operations technology manager previews his presentation and shares his thoughts on data in the world of craft beer, boosting consistency and speeding processing times. Take a look... Smart Industry: Describe your role in this era of digital transformation. Tim: I oversee operations technology at the brewery. This includes process automation, our process historian, operational interactions and integrations with the company ERP system, databases for collecting/organizing/storing quality and recipe data, and creating reports and combining data as required…
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  Q&A: New York Power Authority CEO Gil Quiniones
  
  Digital transformation...transforming
  
  Perusing the "library of equipment failure"
  
  Lightning strikes twice...reliability modeling to the rescue
- Quality|
  Who tells the modern machine what to do?
  
  Machines adapting to batch-of-one.
  
  Industrial machines are changing. No longer the single-purposed dinosaurs of the plant floor, modern B&R's John Kowal manufacturing assets are now computers, data-generators, data-analyzers, and—in a nutshell—more nimble than their rusting ancestors. We chatted with John Kowal, B&R director of business development, to learn more about the current state of the adaptive machine. Take a look… Smart Industry: Describe the concept of "the adaptive machine." John: Simply put, it’s a machine that adapts to the product being made or packaged, instead of running sequences of identical products and changing over between runs. Instead of a process that is sequential, each product is independently controlled. Smart Industry:…
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  The nimble nature of the adaptive machine
  
  CC-Link IE field-safety embedded into Mitsubishi Servo Amplifiers
  
  Industrie 4.0: What does it mean for chemical companies?
  
  The appeal & dangers of ad-hoc evolution
- Compliance|
  Publisher’s Road Notes: Educating the manufacturing workforce
  
  A conversation with OPC Foundation's Tom Burke.
  
  By Tony D’Avino, Smart Industry publisher Digitalization has fast become a priority initiative among growth-oriented manufacturing companies. Fostering the integration of IT technologies across the complete value chain—from product-design to production to maintenance—is the work at hand. OPC-UA provides semantic interoperability for the smart world of connected systems. Very popular within industry, OPC-UA is now taking center stage within the world of Industrie 4.0 and the Internet of Things. I caught up with Tom Burke, president and executive director of the OPC Foundation, during an OPC-UA event at the Timken Faircrest Facility in Canton, OH. We chatted about educating the manufacturing workforce, driving industry standards…
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  Case Study: Lighthouse Systems enables 40% output increase at solar manufacturer
  
  The benefits of better medical and high-tech component manufacturing
  
  Digitalization & unlimited potential for consumer-products companies
  
  The Smart Industry 50
- Product Innovation
  OnProcess Technology launches IntelliForce SM
  
  Optimizes service delivery for field operations.
  
  OnProcess Technology today launched IntelliForce, a field-service management solution that aims to eliminate the industry’s inherently heavy fixed costs. Featuring an on-demand digital marketplace, which is intelligently powered by OnProcess’ advanced analytics engine with built-in star rating system, IntelliForce provides a fully optimized, variable, field-labor service, which results in financial savings and operational improvements, according to its maker. “With businesses differentiating more and more on customer experience, and being expected to do more with less, the role field-service organizations play has never been more crucial. They must deliver flawless service and, to meet increasing corporate-profitability goals, also…
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  CC-Link IE technology on Renesas IE communication SoC
  
  Banner Engineering solution enabled with machine learning
  
  Opto 22 announces edge-programmable industrial controller
  
  Digitalization as the new critical success factor
Use Cases
- Decision support|
  Data helps drive compressed air management at Ford
  
  System-wide optimization, continuous monitoring key to realizing efficiency gains.
  
  By Christine LaFave Grace, Plant Services managing editor Internet-connected (and interconnected) technologies on the plant floor offer unprecedented opportunities to generate, track and analyze asset performance data. But just as important, they can be a vital tool for bolstering back-to-the-basics best practices for optimizing asset use, Joe Ghislain, recently retired senior manager at Ford Motor Co., said at Smart Industry 2017. In a session on how compressed air systems fit into and advance Ford's digital manufacturing strategy, "All of those robots are driven by compressed air." Citing a recent line overhaul that involved 500 state-of-the-art robots, Ford Motor Co.’s Joe Ghislain discussed the critical role that compressed air…
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  Most read of 2017
  
  The Smart Industry 50
  
  Inductive Automation and Cirrus Link release Ignition Edge
  
  Digitizing horizontal and vertical value chains
- Maintenance|
  Perusing the "library of equipment failure"
  
  They've been building the library for 25 years...it's time to put it to use.
  
  Data-analytics firm Uptake recently acquired Asset Performance Technologies, and in doing so adopted Uptake's Mark Benak what they labeled “the world’s most comprehensive library of equipment failure modes used for preventive maintenance optimization in power generation, petrochemical, oil and gas, steel and other industries.” That phrase stuck in our heads, so we connected with Mark Benak, formerly of Asset Performance Technologies / now with Uptake serving as vice president of business ventures, to provide a little more background. Take a look… Smart Industry: Talk to us about the library. Mark: We don’t want to confuse this with data. Data is great, but you have to make sense of it. The reason we call it a library is that…
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  Banner Engineering solution enabled with machine learning
  
  The impact of Industry 4.0 on safety instrumented systems
  
  Honeywell UOP pioneering 'optimization-as-a-service'
  
  Gas processor advancing remote control methodologies
- Field Service|
  Honeywell introduces intelligent wearables for field workers
  
  Live data and real-time support to increase safety and efficiency.
  
  Honeywell announced a handsfree, wearable Connected Plant technology that allows industrial workers to more safely, reliably and efficiently accomplish their tasks in the plant or the field, according to its maker. Honeywell’s Skills Insight Intelligent Wearables feature a head-mounted visual display that responds to voice and brings live data, documents, work procedures, as well as health and safety information into view. Honeywell's Connected Plant technology The new wearable technology connects field workers with remote experts in real time and enables them to assimilate valuable skills and knowledge while working, according to Honeywell. “This new Honeywell Connected Plant technology offers industrial workers the information they…
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  Making work smarter, making workers safer
  
  Compressed air: Capital investment or paid utility?
  
  New York unveils its end-to-end digital utility
  
  The Smart Industry 50
- Asset Performance|
  Autonomous Solutions & Barrick Gold autonomous haulage
  
  The goal is to deliver improvements in safety, efficiency and production.
  
  Autonomous Solutions, Inc. has begun work on a project with Barrick Gold Corporation to retrofit and automate a fleet of haul trucks at the company’s Arturo Joint Venture operation in Nevada. “This represents the first major autonomous deployment within the continental United States and signals a larger movement to adopt automation across the mining industry,” said Drew Larsen, director of business development for ASI Mining. During the initial phase of the project, ASI will retrofit five Komatsu 930-E Ultra Class haul trucks to autonomous operation at the Arturo mine, located on property adjacent to Barrick’s Goldstrike operations. This phase will consist primarily of waste haulage, prior to moving into production. Subsequent…
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  Honeywell migration tool facilitates upgrades of PLCs
  
  Scaling your IIoT project?
  
  A digital approach to an ancient craft
  
  Who tells the modern machine what to do?
- Planning & Execution|
  Scaling your IIoT project?
  
  Get out of the office.
  
  Jeff Smith, corporate IoT business development manager at Parker-Hannifin, has overseen dozens of IIoT implementations around the globe. He’s seen every type of problem. He’s celebrated all of the successes of digital transformation. And he shares his perspective here: Smart Industry: What are the greatest challenges to scaling IIoT efforts after early wins? Jeff: In my experience the next step after early wins is a big one. Early wins place you in the Alpha or Beta phase. So, scaling up means you are now ready for this solution to be generally available. Areas that immediately get called into action include supply chain sourcing, IT support and the defined target locations for rollout. Smart Industry: Should enterprises use early…
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  The nimble nature of the adaptive machine
  
  Featured Speaker: Haresh Malkani on the democratization of smart manufacturing
  
  Uptake acquires Asset Performance Technologies
  
  Blockchain for the manufacturing supply chain
- Supply Chain|
  Featured Speaker: Haresh Malkani on the democratization of smart manufacturing
  
  Think big, start small, get quick wins and feed the frenzy.
  
  In September, Haresh Malkani presents the keynote “The Democratization of Smart, Sustainable Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute's Haresh Malkani, who keynotes the 2018 Smart Industry Conference Manufacturing” at the fourth-annual Smart Industry Conference. Today the chief technology officer with the Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CESMII) shares his thoughts on the journey to smart manufacturing, the strategic use of tools and the opportunities for small manufacturers to take part in digital transformation. Smart Industry: Explain what is meant by "The Democratization of Smart, Sustainable Manufacturing?" Haresh: Smart Manufacturing is not something that materializes overnight. It is a…
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  Blockchain for the manufacturing supply chain
  
  Part working factory. Part showroom. All smart.
  
  Most read of 2017
  
  The Smart Industry 50
- Control & Optimization
  Honeywell migration tool facilitates upgrades of PLCs
  
  Rip and replace? ControlEdge aims to protect aging plant infrastructure.
  
  Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) announced ControlEdge Transition, a tool for migrating obsolete, risk-prone PLCs to Honeywell ControlEdge PLCs, which the maker claims transforms them from liabilities into productive assets that can enhance process uptime and strengthen the security of an industrial site. ControlEdge Transition supports upgrades to Honeywell ControlEdge PLCs, which can then be integrated into a SCADA or DCS system. Additionally, the speed and efficiency of the conversion procedure saves systems integrators and project engineers significant time, cost and risk compared to a manual migration effort, according to Honeywell. “Industrial sites around the world are challenged by aging infrastructure and equipment that are…
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  Who tells the modern machine what to do?
  
  Q&A: New York Power Authority CEO Gil Quiniones
  
  Digital transformation...transforming
  
  The nimble nature of the adaptive machine
Enabling Tech
- Data Analytics|
  Scaling your IIoT project?
  
  Get out of the office.
  
  Jeff Smith, corporate IoT business development manager at Parker-Hannifin, has overseen dozens of IIoT implementations around the globe. He’s seen every type of problem. He’s celebrated all of the successes of digital transformation. And he shares his perspective here: Smart Industry: What are the greatest challenges to scaling IIoT efforts after early wins? Jeff: In my experience the next step after early wins is a big one. Early wins place you in the Alpha or Beta phase. So, scaling up means you are now ready for this solution to be generally available. Areas that immediately get called into action include supply chain sourcing, IT support and the defined target locations for rollout. Smart Industry: Should enterprises use early…
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  A digital approach to an ancient craft
  
  Sprint launches its IoT Factory
  
  Q&A: New York Power Authority CEO Gil Quiniones
  
  Digital transformation...transforming
- Simulation & Modeling|
  Honeywell introduces intelligent wearables for field workers
  
  Live data and real-time support to increase safety and efficiency.
  
  Honeywell announced a handsfree, wearable Connected Plant technology that allows industrial workers to more safely, reliably and efficiently accomplish their tasks in the plant or the field, according to its maker. Honeywell’s Skills Insight Intelligent Wearables feature a head-mounted visual display that responds to voice and brings live data, documents, work procedures, as well as health and safety information into view. Honeywell's Connected Plant technology The new wearable technology connects field workers with remote experts in real time and enables them to assimilate valuable skills and knowledge while working, according to Honeywell. “This new Honeywell Connected Plant technology offers industrial workers the information they…
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  Lightning strikes twice...reliability modeling to the rescue
  
  The intelligence of productivity
  
  DMDII opens its manufacturing floor to the community
  
  Most read of 2017
- Integrated Design|
  Part working factory. Part showroom. All smart.
  
  The Trumpf Smart Factory brings digital-transformation concepts to life (and invites guests to poke around).
  
  Late last year, metal-fabricating giant Trumpf opened the doors of a new type of facility—the Trumpf Smart Factory. Part working factory. Part showroom. Part tour destination. All digital transformation, demonstrating how a fully networked production system works in the real world. Trumpf's Tobias Reuther The $30 million facility demonstrates fully transparent digital networking, offering customers the ability to continuously monitor the status of their projects. Indirect procedures are automated. Processes become more controllable, a particular advantage for small lot sizes. While the facility, located in suburban Chicago, can serve global sheet-metal processors of all sizes, the target group is small/medium-sized contract…
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- Cloud Hosting|
  FogHorn partners with Google Cloud to deliver IIoT solution
  
  Edge Intelligence platform boosts value of data from IoT devices.
  
  FogHorn Systems announced a collaboration with Google Cloud IoT Core to simplify the deployment and maximize the business impact of IIoT applications. The companies have teamed up to integrate FogHorn’s Lightning edge-analytics and machine-learning platform with Cloud IoT Core, a fully managed service that enables enterprise to securely connect, manage, and ingest data from globally dispersed devices. “Cloud IoT Core simply and securely brings the power of Google Cloud’s world-class data infrastructure capabilities to the IIoT market,” said Antony Passemard, head of IoT product management at Google Cloud. “By combining industry-leading edge intelligence from FogHorn, we’ve created a fully-integrated edge and cloud solution…
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  Honeywell debuts cloud historian for connected plant
  
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- Cybersecurity|
  Q&A: New York Power Authority CEO Gil Quiniones
  
  From Thomas Edison to the digital twin.
  
  In 1882, Thomas Edison built the nation’s first powerplant in Manhattan. Recently in nearby White Plains, New York, the New York Power Authority (NYPA) unveiled its Integrated Smart Operations Center, a state-of-the-art headquarters that uses GE Digital's predictive-analytics software to forecast and prevent equipment failures and significant outages at the NYPA's 16 power plants and 1,400 circuit miles of transmission lines. Online monitoring of power plants, sub-stations and power lines increases plant efficiency and productivity, reduces unplanned downtime, lowers maintenance costs and minimizes operational risks. The technology will help NYPA progress toward meeting their state’s Governor's Clean Energy Standard, which requires…
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  Digital transformation...transforming
  
  GRIDSMART creates cybersecurity division for infrastructure threats
  
  Indegy launches industrial security-risk-assessment service
  
  Risk Management: Lessons from 102 stories up
- Industrial Networks|
  Hexagon announces Xalt to harness potential of IoT data
  
  Fast-tracking a customer’s ability to fully leverage IoT data.
  
  Hexagon AB announced Xalt, a new framework for accelerating digital transformation by fast-tracking a customer’s ability to fully leverage IoT data. The goal of Xalt is to create Autonomous Connected Ecosystems (ACE), a state where data is connected seamlessly through the convergence of the physical and digital worlds, and intelligence is built-in to all processes from the core to the edge of a customer’s network, according to Hexagon AB. Xalt’s framework promises to leverage disruptive technologies that address the critical IoT points of leverage: enterprise integration; cloud orchestration; data visualization; built-in mobility; intelligent edge connectivity; and artificial intelligence (AI). It is the cornerstone of Hexagon’s…
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  TRUMPF expands training capabilities
  
  Honeywell migration tool facilitates upgrades of PLCs
  
  Scaling your IIoT project?
  
  A digital approach to an ancient craft
- Mobility|
  Mobility rises above
  
  Process users are further increasing their range with more diverse solutions—and even taking flight.
  
  By Jim Montague If you can't see the forest for all the trees, it's time get up above those trees. Because the need to know what's going on in process applications always demands more data and finer resolution from more places, one useful indicator just sparks the desire for more. That's why, after process controls engineers and other plant-floor professionals gain mobile tools and software, they still want to accelerate and diversify their capabilities even further, and extend them to new locations and applications. "We had one user with a telescope pointed at a level instrument on an elevated water tower across town, which he used regularly until we added a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system and radio," says Robert…
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  Enabling the mobile worker, optimizing growth
- IIoT Platforms
  IIC publishes edge computing in IIoT white paper
  
  Practical guidance for building edge computing implementations.
  
  The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) announced the publication of the IIC Introduction to Edge Computing in IIoT white paper. The paper provides practical guidance on edge computing, architectures and the building blocks necessary for edge-computing implementations. The IIC is also planning to release an Edge Computing Technical Report that will contain in-depth technical information in the coming months. “Many companies are wanting to realize the business benefits that edge computing is purported to provide but are unsure where to begin or how to realize those advantages. The IIC has been at the vanguard of the industrial internet since its inception, and edge computing has been an integral part of driving the…
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  Hexagon announces Xalt to harness potential of IoT data
  
  PTC and Rockwell Automation partner to drive innovation
  
  SAP and Endress+Hauser work on joint IIoT solutions
  
  Honeywell migration tool facilitates upgrades of PLCs
Emerging Tech
- Additive Manufacturing|
  The Smart Industry 50
  
  Our 2017 honorees are making digital revolution real.
  
  By Keith Larson, Editor in Chief Even revolutions are hard to see when you’re in the midst of them. Certainly, there’s a generous dose of marketing hype around the potential of the Industrial Internet of Things, cloud computing and big data analytics to advance industrial performance and remake business models. But speak to those on the front lines of digital innovation and their stories make clear that industry is indeed in the midst of an accelerating transformation made possible by increasingly powerful and accessible digital technology. “Some say we’re in the midst of a fourth industrial revolution,” says Steve Jones of Steelcase, one of the class of 2017 Smart Industry 50 honorees. “That’s a bold statement, but I think…
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  GE ‘all in’ on digital transformation
  
  Siemens/Stratasys partner on additive manufacturing
  
  A deeper reality via modeled reality
  
  Gateway bridges any two industrial Ethernet Networks
- Cobotics|
  Robotics-as-a-Service to unlock market development
  
  Global revenues for RaaS to reach US$34 billion by 2026.
  
  By Rian Whitton, research analyst at market-foresight advisory firm ABI Research Robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) is an elastic concept and can mean different things. It broadly refers to robotics ABI Research's Rian Whitton providers that do not simply sell their products, but rather rent or lease their products with solutions to customers as a full service. Though the robotics market continues to grow, ongoing pressure on robotics vendors to maintain margin means that they are looking to widen market opportunities beyond just selling robots as products. Our recent report highlights the potential of RaaS in unlocking the next phase of market development in robotics, estimating that the installed base for RaaS will grow from 4,442 units in…
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  Mobility rises above
  
  The Smart Industry 50
  
  Enabling robots to adopt more tasks
  
  Robotics' role in the digital transformation
- Smart Systems|
  Siemens, Bentley Systems launch Process Industries Academy
  
  Best-practice approaches for project-delivery and asset operations.
  
  Siemens’ Process Industries and Drives and Digital Factories divisions are teaming up with Bentley Systems’ Bentley Institute to establish the Process Industries Academy that will support the companies’ joint vision for cloud services and digital workflows in engineering and operations. The Process Industries Academy aims to help organizations better understand and develop effective digital strategies across all aspects of the asset lifecycle, based on the practical experience and knowledge of the industry’s leading experts. Based on the experience and knowledge of the enterprises' experts, the Process Industries Academy will provide sessions focusing on real-world examples of digital approaches to capital-project…
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  SAP and Endress+Hauser work on joint IIoT solutions
  
  Honeywell migration tool facilitates upgrades of PLCs
  
  Scaling your IIoT project?
  
  Who tells the modern machine what to do?
- Machine Intelligence|
  Who tells the modern machine what to do?
  
  Machines adapting to batch-of-one.
  
  Industrial machines are changing. No longer the single-purposed dinosaurs of the plant floor, modern B&R's John Kowal manufacturing assets are now computers, data-generators, data-analyzers, and—in a nutshell—more nimble than their rusting ancestors. We chatted with John Kowal, B&R director of business development, to learn more about the current state of the adaptive machine. Take a look… Smart Industry: Describe the concept of "the adaptive machine." John: Simply put, it’s a machine that adapts to the product being made or packaged, instead of running sequences of identical products and changing over between runs. Instead of a process that is sequential, each product is independently controlled. Smart Industry:…
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  Sprint launches its IoT Factory
  
  Digital transformation...transforming
  
  Publisher's Road Noes: Pitney Bowes' Marie-Pierre Belanger
  
  Robotics-as-a-Service to unlock market development
- Blockchain|
  The benefits of blockchain in food processing
  
  Blockchain can transform information-transfer in supply chains.
  
  By Nathan Jin, Ivy Everyone is clamoring for greater traceability and sustainability. And as we all move toward technological operating frameworks, enterprises are seeking solutions to boost traceability and recordkeeping. The potential for blockchain technology to change the information-transfer of food supply chains has become a hot topic. Blockchain has its roots in 2009 as a distributed ledger for recording monetary transactions in the Bitcoin network. Here's how it works: transactions between participants on the system are bundled into blocks, which are then linked to the previous block, forming a chain. Each subsequent block is based on the previous block, so retroactively changing entries in previous blocks is functionally…
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  Blockchain for the manufacturing supply chain
  
  Part working factory. Part showroom. All smart.
  
  The Smart Industry 50
- Smart Materials|
  The Smart Industry 50
  
  Our 2017 honorees are making digital revolution real.
  
  By Keith Larson, Editor in Chief Even revolutions are hard to see when you’re in the midst of them. Certainly, there’s a generous dose of marketing hype around the potential of the Industrial Internet of Things, cloud computing and big data analytics to advance industrial performance and remake business models. But speak to those on the front lines of digital innovation and their stories make clear that industry is indeed in the midst of an accelerating transformation made possible by increasingly powerful and accessible digital technology. “Some say we’re in the midst of a fourth industrial revolution,” says Steve Jones of Steelcase, one of the class of 2017 Smart Industry 50 honorees. “That’s a bold statement, but I think…
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  The near future of smart roads
- Digital Twin|
  Q&A: New York Power Authority CEO Gil Quiniones
  
  From Thomas Edison to the digital twin.
  
  In 1882, Thomas Edison built the nation’s first powerplant in Manhattan. Recently in nearby White Plains, New York, the New York Power Authority (NYPA) unveiled its Integrated Smart Operations Center, a state-of-the-art headquarters that uses GE Digital's predictive-analytics software to forecast and prevent equipment failures and significant outages at the NYPA's 16 power plants and 1,400 circuit miles of transmission lines. Online monitoring of power plants, sub-stations and power lines increases plant efficiency and productivity, reduces unplanned downtime, lowers maintenance costs and minimizes operational risks. The technology will help NYPA progress toward meeting their state’s Governor's Clean Energy Standard, which requires…
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  Part working factory. Part showroom. All smart.
  
  Digital twins for the asset operator
  
  The Smart Industry 50
  
  Digital twin to enable asset optimization
- Augmented Reality
  Honeywell introduces intelligent wearables for field workers
  
  Live data and real-time support to increase safety and efficiency.
  
  Honeywell announced a handsfree, wearable Connected Plant technology that allows industrial workers to more safely, reliably and efficiently accomplish their tasks in the plant or the field, according to its maker. Honeywell’s Skills Insight Intelligent Wearables feature a head-mounted visual display that responds to voice and brings live data, documents, work procedures, as well as health and safety information into view. Honeywell's Connected Plant technology The new wearable technology connects field workers with remote experts in real time and enables them to assimilate valuable skills and knowledge while working, according to Honeywell. “This new Honeywell Connected Plant technology offers industrial workers the information they…
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  Recent
  
  Part working factory. Part showroom. All smart.
  
  The Smart Industry 50
Industries
- Machinery|
  Who tells the modern machine what to do?
  
  Machines adapting to batch-of-one.
  
  Industrial machines are changing. No longer the single-purposed dinosaurs of the plant floor, modern B&R's John Kowal manufacturing assets are now computers, data-generators, data-analyzers, and—in a nutshell—more nimble than their rusting ancestors. We chatted with John Kowal, B&R director of business development, to learn more about the current state of the adaptive machine. Take a look… Smart Industry: Describe the concept of "the adaptive machine." John: Simply put, it’s a machine that adapts to the product being made or packaged, instead of running sequences of identical products and changing over between runs. Instead of a process that is sequential, each product is independently controlled. Smart Industry:…
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  Data doctors in the IIoT era
  
  Perusing the "library of equipment failure"
  
  Vortex flowmeter calibration & rangeability
  
  The smart professionals behind the smart machines
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  In September, Tim Alexander presents “Deschutes Boosts Quality, Throughput with Predictive Analytics” at Deschutes' Tim Alexander the 2018 Smart Industry Conference. Today the brewery-operations technology manager previews his presentation and shares his thoughts on data in the world of craft beer, boosting consistency and speeding processing times. Take a look... Smart Industry: Describe your role in this era of digital transformation. Tim: I oversee operations technology at the brewery. This includes process automation, our process historian, operational interactions and integrations with the company ERP system, databases for collecting/organizing/storing quality and recipe data, and creating reports and combining data as required…
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  By Keith Larson, Editor in Chief Even revolutions are hard to see when you’re in the midst of them. Certainly, there’s a generous dose of marketing hype around the potential of the Industrial Internet of Things, cloud computing and big data analytics to advance industrial performance and remake business models. But speak to those on the front lines of digital innovation and their stories make clear that industry is indeed in the midst of an accelerating transformation made possible by increasingly powerful and accessible digital technology. “Some say we’re in the midst of a fourth industrial revolution,” says Steve Jones of Steelcase, one of the class of 2017 Smart Industry 50 honorees. “That’s a bold statement, but I think…
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  Omer Arad, IBM researcher/developer and member of the Forbes Israel 30 Under 30 class of 2018, IBM's Omer Arad specializes in applying elements of the IoT for personal safety, using voice and gesture activation to identify workers’ behavior patterns and tapping artificial intelligence and sensor data to prevent accidents in hazardous work environments. We chatted with him about workplace safety, how age affects digital adoption, and the role of safety in IIoT initiatives. Take a look… Smart Industry: What’s new in personal safety? Omer: We are working on research connected to wearable devices, which are worn on the bodies and collect biometic data. We use ID tags that generate real-time data in order to protect workers in extreme…
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  Applications with monitoring of motors, pumps, blowers and more.
  
  Banner Engineering today announces its wireless condition-monitoring solution with machine learning for more intuitive predictive maintenance. The QM42VT wireless vibration-monitoring sensor continuously measures RMS velocity, high frequency RMS acceleration and temperature, enabling the sensor to identify machine problems before they become severe and result in unplanned downtime, according to Banner. It also allows facility managers to plan maintenance more efficiently and reduce labor costs by eliminating manual checks. Using a proprietary machine-learning algorithm, Banner’s condition-monitoring solution collects data from the QM42VT vibration-detection motor sensor to establish a machine’s vibration baseline and automatically set…
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  The goal is to deliver improvements in safety, efficiency and production.
  
  Autonomous Solutions, Inc. has begun work on a project with Barrick Gold Corporation to retrofit and automate a fleet of haul trucks at the company’s Arturo Joint Venture operation in Nevada. “This represents the first major autonomous deployment within the continental United States and signals a larger movement to adopt automation across the mining industry,” said Drew Larsen, director of business development for ASI Mining. During the initial phase of the project, ASI will retrofit five Komatsu 930-E Ultra Class haul trucks to autonomous operation at the Arturo mine, located on property adjacent to Barrick’s Goldstrike operations. This phase will consist primarily of waste haulage, prior to moving into production. Subsequent…
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  In 1882, Thomas Edison built the nation’s first powerplant in Manhattan. Recently in nearby White Plains, New York, the New York Power Authority (NYPA) unveiled its Integrated Smart Operations Center, a state-of-the-art headquarters that uses GE Digital's predictive-analytics software to forecast and prevent equipment failures and significant outages at the NYPA's 16 power plants and 1,400 circuit miles of transmission lines. Online monitoring of power plants, sub-stations and power lines increases plant efficiency and productivity, reduces unplanned downtime, lowers maintenance costs and minimizes operational risks. The technology will help NYPA progress toward meeting their state’s Governor's Clean Energy Standard, which requires…
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  Generation Z, those born between the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s, will be the last generation to remember a product-based economy, according to a new global research report “The Rise of Asset and Service Data Gravity”, conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of ServiceMax from GE Digital. As the trend to servitization (bundling services with products) and the appetite for outcome-based contracts and business models continues, 77% of those surveyed believe Gen Z will be the last generation to experience an economy dominated by products alone without any embedded services or outcomes. The research, which surveyed 600 IT decision makers and field service management leaders across the USA, UK, France, Germany, Turkey, UAE and Saudi Arabia,…
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  The last generation to remember a product-based economy?
  
  What does this mean for manufacturers?
  
  Generation Z, those born between the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s, will be the last generation to remember a product-based economy, according to a new global research report “The Rise of Asset and Service Data Gravity”, conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of ServiceMax from GE Digital. As the trend to servitization (bundling services with products) and the appetite for outcome-based contracts and business models continues, 77% of those surveyed believe Gen Z will be the last generation to experience an economy dominated by products alone without any embedded services or outcomes. The research, which surveyed 600 IT decision makers and field service management leaders across the USA, UK, France, Germany, Turkey, UAE and Saudi Arabia,…
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  Turning data into actionable insight requires more than just upgrading technology.
  
  Emerging connected-plant technologies were the highlight today when Honeywell kicked off its largest annual gathering of industrial customers, with a focus on showing manufacturers how digital transformation can help them achieve new levels of consistently high performance. The ability of Honeywell Connected Plant’s offerings to deliver higher levels of safety, reliability, efficiency and profitability will continue to be the primary discussion point at the 43rd Honeywell Users Group (HUG) Americas symposium, which runs through Friday. More than 1,300 delegates from across the oil and gas, chemical, pulp and paper, and metals and mining sectors are attending the event, which features numerous displays of the newest technologies along…
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