Today’s manufacturers must operate at breakneck speed to keep pace with ever-changing customer demands, market trends and global competitors in a rapidly evolving marketplace. Yet many traditional challenges, such as increasing costs, unplanned downtime, quality control (QC), evolving business requirements and aging infrastructure, continue to hamper progress, but the benefits of IIoT impact everything. Advantages […]
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Many industrial businesses today see IIoT as a solution to the 21st century business issues they face. There’s ever-increasing pressure from shareholders for better financial results, to generate greater returns on the considerable amount of capital invested in production facilities. New generations of workers, customers and investors are emerging. They have different expectations (e.g. flexibility, […]
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Welcome to the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) data problem series. The goal of this series is to help leaders understand the data problems that industrial businesses face when deploying IIoT networks. Cybersecurity in productivity was saved for last, as it is perhaps the most prevalent and relevant issue to many organizations. A recent Financial […]
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It’s possible to protect critical infrastructure without compromising security or your budget — find out how. The Need for Micro-segmentation Industry experts and organizations such as NIST, PCI, and the U.S. Department of Defense are all in agreement concerning the benefits of micro-segmentation, and for good reason: With tens of billions of devices connected to […]
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There are an endless number of buzzwords in the technology industry at any given moment. We’ve all heard more than enough about the Cloud, the Edge and the Internet of Things (IoT) for the past several years. However, there still seems to be some confusion in the Smart Manufacturing industry about how these three terms […]
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The COVID-19 coronavirus and the human suffering it has wrought are rapidly changing the way we live and work. In the near term, staying at home and practicing social distancing are vital to ‘flattening the curve’. We must all do what we can to protect the most vulnerable, and to bring closer the day when we […]
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution is key to getting the global economy, and our lives, back on track Preventive measures implemented by countries worldwide to halt the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in its tracks are forcing us to make fundamental changes to how we live, from work to play, business to education, policymaking to legislation. How long […]
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The industrial internet of things (IIoT) has completely changed the competitive landscape for manufacturers. It is ushering in entirely new ways of thinking about every business process from product design, engineering and manufacturing to maintenance and asset management—not to mention new business models. It drives greater levels of efficiency that were never thought possible before. Before the advent of […]
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Badr Al-Olama heads the Aerospace Business Unit at Mubadala Investment Company which invests in high-tech manufacturing and integrated industrial services, including Strata Manufacturing PJSC (Strata), Turbine Services and Solutions (TS&S) and Sanad Aero Solutions (Sanad). Nominated as a Young Global Leader for the Middle East and North Africa region by the World Economic Forum, Badr […]
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5G is going to change the game for industrial operations. We’ll be able to access more data than before, faster than ever before. For manufacturers, though, one of the primary advantages will come in the form of IoT devices. IoT devices like industrial smart sensors on a 5G network will operate thanks to the improved […]
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To maximize IIoT device profitability and customer satisfaction, users can take a few simple steps to augment yocto’s robust platform with tooling to increase security and decrease update frequency, while still maintaining aggressive delivery timelines. Yocto is quickly becoming the de facto standard build environment for embedded devices. Its configurability and wide range of supported […]
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