Industrie4.0 & IIC consortium leaders duke it out Regardless of the IoT political atmospherics, Hannover Messe 2016 was once again the highlight of the year worldwide for every manner of innovation related to manufacturing. Lot size of one. In full effect at the SAP stand. This year saw the USA as country partners with Germany […]
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OPC day 2015 lays out the OPCUA IoT / Industrie 4.0 roadmap with a little help from Kuka & Microsoft
OPCUA Conference 2015 from the outside looking in.. Why is OPCUA so popular? It sits on ethernet, is a secure client-server object oriented way to expose object data. And now it is open source too. Spike is based on OPCUA and exposes a generic set of data semantics i.e. objects from some well known process […]
Industry 4.0 reaches critical mass at Hannover Messe 2015
Industry Experts outline the key challenges facing Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 is a term used in Germany to describe the complete integration of the Automation component supply chain, custom manufacture & assembly, and customer requirements. This high level of integration may be achieved through the following bedrock of technologies; eClass – An online database of […]
Consumer IoT; what’s all the fuss about? Enterprise IoT has a solution already
The internet of (no)things is what the Economist magazine calls the wild west of standards that is IoT (internet of things) technology presently. http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2014/05/difference-engine-1 A quick web search brings up the following (at least) 6 competing IoT standards. Intel/Dell/Samsung: IOCMicrosoft/Cisco/LG/Panasonic: AllSeen AllianceGE/Cisco/Intel/IBM: Industrial Internet ConsortiumIBM: MQTTApple: HomeKitQualcomm: AllJoynBT/Intel/ARM/IBM: Hypercat Google haven’t quite shown their hand […]
Disruptive Innovation
Clayton Christensen explains disruptive innovation as this: “It transforms a product that was historically so expensive and complicated that only a few people with a lot of money and a lot of skill had access to it. Disruptive innovation makes it so much more affordable and accessible that a much larger population have access to […]