Reinvent your Sales Model – Create Lean Distribution to prepare for the Industrial IoT Era
Industrial manufacturers seeking a market-share increase must become proactive and help distributors to evolve by reinventing into marketing and sales organizations. These organizations are part of a new order called lean distribution. They are highly focused on product selling, sales
5 Ways Drones Are Transforming Earthworks Projects
Drones have quickly become one of the most versatile tools on the construction site. Whether it’s for documentation before pouring concrete, making pre-design processes more efficient, or speeding up data collection for infrastructure projects, drones have become the aerial eye
The main issues with today’s Industrial Automation Sales Channel
For decades, American industry has purchased much of its electrical, electronic and hydraulic products from independent distributors. Customers and manufacturers experience many advantages by using the industrial distributor business model. Local support, off-book cost, customer credit buffer and customer knowledge
CEO Insights: We’re entering a “Golden Age” as it relates to the field of robotics
As part of the CEO Insights Series, IIoT World's Managing Editor, Lucian Fogoros, interviews Ben Wolff, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer & Director of Sarcos, about industrial robots. Lucian Fogoros: The number of industrial robots deployed worldwide will increase to around 2.6 million units
How will ICS cybersecurity standards be impacted by IIoT?
There has been quite a bit of discussion and speculation about the potential impact of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) on the development, deployment, and operation of industrial control systems (ICS). Predictions have ranged from “Nothing changes” to “It
Joseph Weiss, Managing Partner
Joseph Weiss is an industry expert on control systems and electronic security of control systems, with more than 40 years of experience in the energy industry. Mr. Weiss spent more than 14 years at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
Securing Industrial IoT: There is no simple answer
There are lots of terms thrown around these days, such as: Internet of Things (IoT), Industrial Controls Systems (ICS), Operational Technology (OT). What this means is that there are billions of interconnected consumer devices and industrial systems, not running a
The right representation of Digital Twins for Data Analytics
What are digital twins? Digital twins are digital representations of physical objects. In simple cases, sensors for example, the digital representations may be trivial (e.g., current values for temperature, RPMs, etc.). More interesting cases involve complex, and usually expensive, capital assets
Saar Yoskovitz, CEO
Saar Yoskovitz, an avid entrepreneur, has extensive experience in machine learning, signal processing algorithms and system architecture. Prior to founding Augury, Saar worked as an analog architect at Intel. Saar holds a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and a
Juan José Bello, Contributor
Juan José is an IoT enthusiast and content writer for Ubidots, an Internet of Things platform that enables thousands of makers and companies to prototype and scale their own IoT projects. Juan enjoys getting lost a book during the week
Suman Singh, Product Marketing Manager
Suman has several years of B2B marketing experience across various functions including Product Marketing, Content Marketing, Competitive Intelligence and Campaign Management. As a global product marketing manager at Fujitsu Technology Solutions, he is responsible for Fujitsu's ESPRIMO product line. Prior
Five cybersecurity experts about CrashOverride malware: main dangers and lessons for IIoT
The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) is aware of public reports from ESET and Dragos outlining a new, highly capable Industrial Controls Systems (ICS) attack platform that was reportedly used in 2016 against critical infrastructure in Ukraine. As