Digital transformation has resulted in an array of emerging technologies and scientific breakthroughs that profoundly change the way products are designed and manufactured, including Cognitive Manufacturing

Turbine monitoring is a hot area for new aftermarket services, given that both GE and Siemens are major turbine OEMs and each firm is now executing new internet service initiatives.

The recent Bentley Systems Year in Infrastructure 2020 Conference (YII) centered largely on digital twins.  The Executive Perspective sessions hosted at the conference provided attendees with a better understanding of the numerous advantages of deploying digital twins for infrastructure and industry.

5G and private wireless both promise significant incremental performance improvements that meet the needs of these core business drivers and their associated connectivity requirements

A digital twin is a dynamic virtual representation of a physical entity using real-world data.  The business value comes from Managing Digital Twins and Digital Threads to improve outcomes.

Digital change agents in leading companies now have a mandate, supported by investment, to accelerate a Successful Digital Transformation of their businesses.

The term “digital transformation” has become a buzzword lacking clear meaning.  We’ve segmented into three digital transformation categories and provided case examples of each

Going from batch to continuous processing may not seem like a major issue, but that’s not the case in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. 

the IT Industry in India continues its upward momentum as most of the IT services companies covered in the report exhibited above-average growth. 

The HMI has considerable impact on what improves operator effectiveness and overall plant and/or machinery reliability.

BASF’s Reliability Center accesses disparate industrial data sources from different locations at BASF sites around the globe and analyzes the data to support production sites with recommendations and troubleshooting.

Owner-operators and service companies in the oil & gas industry have also started to implement new technologies and capture the related benefits, and now we see oil & gas digitization slowly ramping up.

The Industrial Internet Consortium's (IIC’s) Industrial Internet Reference Architecture (IIRA) describes a reference architecture for an IIoT system derived from a layered databus architecture framework based on the ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010:2011 standard

Much has been written on the current imbalance between supply and demand for skilled and experienced industrial cybersecurity expertise .  While many related reports often focus on general-purpose IT cybersecurity, the situation is even more acute for industrial cybersecurity. 

The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering ISPE Boston Chapter held its annual product show at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts.

An increasing number of all types of traditionally fossil-fueled vehicles are making the transition to electrification, and ARC Advisory Group research indicates that the electrification of transportation will continue to accelerate well into this decade.

Like all major trade shows in 2020, the Smart Production Solutions ( SPS 2020 ) show, typically held annually in Germany at the end of November, went virtual this year as “SPS Connect.”

During the event, Trenitalia, Italy’s railway operator, communicated the company’s new IoT-enabled approach to dynamic maintenance management that will run on SAP software. At the time, Trenitalia anticipated that the approach would help it save more than €100 million annually in maintenance costs, and still does. 

ARC Advisory Group’s recent India Forum in Bangalore included a number of interesting and insightful sessions about the latest trends in manufacturing across industries, including renewable energy

The fire at Grenfell Tower in London last summer resulted in scores of deaths and shocked us all.  Media reports suggest that the Grenfell Tower did not have a functioning central fire alarm system.

Terry Unruh, Production & Maintenance Process Leader at Ascend Performance Materials explained the company’s operations prior to implementing its internal “Mobility” and “Visual Factory” projects.  This uses Wonderware mobility and operational intelligence solutions from Schneider Electric.

To reach the Paris Agreement goals, the world will need vast amounts of green hydrogen production and wind will provide a large portion of the power needed for it.  

Common metrics have helped Consortium participants better understand what is possible to achieve through the use of automation and other operational technology (OT) and the impact that various actions could have on their respective businesses. 

As for any business, the owners of a wind turbine and other assets want to maximize revenue. This is accomplished by producing as much power as possible, without damaging the equipment.

The distributed control node (DCN) is the smallest, lowest level, and lowest cost component in the ExxonMobil Open Process Automation (OPA) vision.