by Gavin Halse | Mar 6, 2019 | IT in Manufacturing
How is your IT outsourced services provider performing? The Gartner hype cycle provides a simple graphic representation of how emerging technologies are adopted in the market. The principle is quite simple: a new technology (such as augmented reality) will start...
by Gavin Halse | Oct 6, 2018 | IT in Manufacturing
Digital transformation, according to Microsoft, is about reimagining how you bring together people, data and processes to create value for your customers and maintain a competitive advantage in a digital-first world. For manufacturers, digital transformation involves...
by Gavin Halse | Jun 1, 2018 | IT in Manufacturing
During my days as a process engineer, I worked on an amino acid fermentation plant where it was very important to keep the process sterile at all times otherwise entire batches could be lost to contamination. Dozens of automated diaphragm valves were used to control...
by Gavin Halse | Feb 2, 2018 | IT in Manufacturing
Blockchain technology has recently come into focus with Bitcoin’s prominence as a viable cryptocurrency. In manufacturing circles, it is probably fair to say that there is some uncertainty as to exactly what future impact blockchain may have on manufacturing systems....
by Gavin Halse | Dec 1, 2017 | IT in Manufacturing
There is no doubt that with Industrie 4.0 there is a lot of innovation taking place in manufacturing IT. But ‘innovation’ is not only the creation of a new idea out of nothing but more often the combination of two existing ideas in a new way to create something...
by Gavin Halse | Oct 7, 2017 | IT in Manufacturing
Process manufacturing plants create enormous amounts of data every day, much of which is captured and stored in SCADA systems. At the same time business ERP systems also contribute to the volume of data collected and stored. Documents in e-mail systems contain...
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