A recent blog from Schneider Electric considers how digitisation of production and operations bring business benefits to companies in the consumer-packaged goods industry and how it drives…
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Addressing Edge Data Centre Cybersecurity
For Schneider Electric, connectivity is central to the adoption of its EcoStruxure IT platform, whose integrity results from continuous dynamic vulnerability scanning. In a recent blog, they consider the importance of edge…
Transforming IIoT Big Data into a Usable Currency
Industry 4.0 and IIot are largely about connectivity of equipment and devices to improve the way we work. In this article, we look at transforming IIoT big data into a usable currency.
In manufacturing the…
Ensuring Sustainability & Critical Engineering Decisions
It is easy to assume that ensuring sustainability is someone else’s responsibility, or that our engineering decisions are too small to affect the bigger picture. That is not the case: there are constant daily…
Importance of AI to Manufacturing clear says study
It is vital not to underestimate the importance of AI to manufacturing says a recent report by Accenture. Their study across sixteen industries indicates that amongst those benefiting most will be…
Will AI deliver tangible value from big data?
The Internet of Things (IoT) changes everything at record speed. It is said that 90 percent of the data in the world has been generated in the last two years. The latest estimate is…
Acheiving profitable reliability from IIoT
Finding ways to improve operational profitability is not a new topic. If you have not already started down this road, there will be opportunities wherever you look. But if you have been working on…
Data as a Currency: Expect New Business Models to Grow
For many years business models in automation have been very similar. However, their foundation is based on assumptions that IIot will probably make invalid. Schneider Electric sees that with the digitisation of plants…
OPC UA TSN: Will it change Industrial Ethernet?
There has been a lot in the automation press and online about using OPC UA over Time Sensitive Networks. The resulting OPC UA TSN certainly could be the basis for a vendor independent real-time…
Benefiting from IIoT Plant Modernisation
If you are in the fortunate position of developing a ‘green field’ manufacturing plant, digitisation is the obvious way forward. But for most companies, this is not the case. It is more likely you…
Manufacturing Lighthouses Show Industry the Way
Manufacturers have tried for years to develop a computer network standard for interconnecting devices from various manufacturers (remember MAP?). Now things are different: IoT is providing the underlying platform. Markedly, equipment and device makers…
EcoStruxure Machine Expert: Intuitive Automation
EcoStruxure is the Schneider Electric open IoT systems to help organisations compete in the coming digital economy. Within EcoStruxure, Machine Expert is an intuitive software solution for simplifying machine automation. It provides all the…
Self-Powered Remote Sensors Connect to Cloud
A new generation of self-powered remote sensors enables connection of previously unconnectable remote assets. Groups like farmers, railway systems and utilities can now directly access cloud-based monitoring.
The breakthrough introduces the possibility of offering precise…
Sustainable Competitive Advantage in Factory Automation
In their white paper Business Models for Smart Machines, Schneider Electric argues for machine builders to think about creating sustainable competitive advantage for their organisations. They need…
Cybersecurity is Critical for Schneider Electric
Ensuring its customers and partners are secure in today’s digital economy is critical for Schneider Electric. Cybersecurity and data privacy are integral to their business strategy. To help customers understand how they mitigate Cybersecurity…
EcoStruxure Machine Advisor offers Remote Maintenance
Manufacturing machinery is a complex blend of electronic and mechanical components integrated into a single machine or production line. The designs are sophisticated, and the technology used is complex, even for the designers. More…
Prescriptive Maintenance: Going Beyond Condition Monitoring
In a recent white paper discussing profitable reliability, Schneider Electric identifies four levels of maintenance from reactive through to prescriptive maintenance. Prescriptive maintenance uses information from predictive maintenance tools…
Secomea Secure Remote Access: Cross-Sector & Industry Leading
Be it new build machines for manufacturing or for public utilities, unquestionably, remote access is essential. Secomea is leading supplier of secure remote access solutions. Moreover, they work across almost every sector…
Manufacturing Automation: Key to Improved Efficiency & Performance
When thinking about advanced factory automation the first places that come to mind are invariably car plants. Images are of robot assembly lines, relatively few people and widespread use of AGVs. However, achieving this…
EcoStruxure for Industry: A New Offering
EcoStruxure is a Schneider Electric’s open IoT system that helps industry compete in the modern digital economy. It offers customised architectures across multiple industries where they have expertise and experience. Markedly, EcoStruxure for Industry…