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Industry Week Survey: Most Manufacturers Don’t Get IoT
A new Industry Week survey shows that most manufacturers are, at best, just testing the IoT waters, and few have made the management changes necessary that show they understand the IoT’s revolutionary potential to change every aspect of their products, manufacturing, and even their management.
The survey, “The Internet of Things: Finding the Path to Value,” […]
Live Blogging from SAP’s SCM CRM IoT 2016 – Day 2
Greg Gorbach, ARC Advisory Group, Industrial Internet of Things:
ARC is an analyst firm, in Boston.
new service models
new products
new production techniques
new business processes
new competitors
new partners
new workers
new business opportunities.
innovation improves competitiveness: value-based competitiveness raises value of output.
Drivers:
reduced machine or asset downtime
more rapid service response
improved process performance
improved personnel productivity
reduced machine or asset lifecycle costs
improved asset utilization/RoA
opportunity for business […]
Day 2, Live Blogging from SAP’s IoT2016 Internet of Things Event
I’m up first this morning, & hope to lift attendees’ vision of what can be achieved with the Internet of Things: sure, cool devices and greater efficiency are great, but there’s so much more: how about total transformation of businesses and the economy, to make them more creative, precise, and even environmentally sustainable?
I’ve just revised my […]
Testing the IoT Waters: 1st Steps in Creating an IoT Corporate Strategy
What if you’re interested in the Internet of Things, but are a little scared of making a major commitment and making major expenditures until you build your familiarity level and start to enjoy some tangible results?
That concern is understandable, especially when prognosticators such as I emphasize what a transformational impact the IoT will have on every […]
Why Global Warming Must Be IoT Focus for Everyone
I want to offer you six great reasons — five of them are seated with my wife and me in this photo — why we all should make global warming a primary focus of IoT projects for the foreseeable future.
There simply is no way to sugar-coat the grim news coming out of the Paris climate talks: […]
The IoT Will Reinvent Replacement Parts Industry
Of all the Internet of Things’ revolutionary impacts on industry, perhaps none will be as dramatic as on replacement parts, where it will team with 3-D printing to reduce service time, inventory and costs.
I came to that realization circuitously, upon noticing Warren Buffett’s blockbuster purchase of Precision Castparts, the major precision parts supplier to the aeronautics industry. Having read last […]
The IoT Can Revolutionize Every Aspect of Small Farming
When the New York Times weighs in on an Internet of Things phenomenon, you know it’s about to achieve mainstream consciousness, and that’s now the case with what I like to call “precision agriculture,” enabled by a combination of IoT sensors in the fields and big data analysis tools.
The combination is potent and vital because an adequate supply of safe […]
Intel’s IoT tech improves its own manufacturing efficiency
This demonstration IoT manufacturing project hits my buttons!
I love IoT-enabled manufacturing (what I call “precision manufacturing“) and I REALLY love companies (such as GE, at its Durathon battery plant) that eat their own dogfood by applying their IoT technology internally. Gotta walk the talk!
That’s why I was happy to learn how Intel is applied its own IoT technology […]
I Have Seen the Future of Agriculture & It is the IoT (Grove Labs)
Agriculture is a passion of mine, partially because of environmental concerns, and also because I love veggie gardening. There has been an encouraging trend in the US recently, with the advent of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and the localvore movement. However, that’s counterbalanced by the terrible continuing California drought, and the sobering realization that, worldwide, […]
Is GE the future of manufacturing? IoT + nanotech + 3D-printing
The specific impetus for this post was an article in The Boston Globe about heart stents that fit perfectly because they’re 3-D printed individuallly for each patient.
That prompted me to think of how manufacturing may change when three of my favorite technologies — nanotech, 3-D printing and the Internet of Things — are fully mature […]
