By Julie Pike, Sr. Digital Content Manager, Industrial Internet Consortium 2015 was an exciting year at the Industrial Internet Consortium. Not only did we hit the 200-member milestone (to date, we have 230 members hailing from 27 countries), but we also earned a larger role in Industrial Internet thought leadership... Read more →
12/22/2015
2015: The Year Things Came Together
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12/10/2015
The Importance of Innovation: Introducing the Journal of Innovation
By Brian J Westcott PhD, CEO, Intelligent Structures Inc; Editor of the IIC Journal of Innovation Today, the Industrial Internet Consortium released the inaugural volume of the IIC Journal of Innovation. We have chosen the theme of Innovation for the Industrial Internet Consortium's Journal because we feel it is an... Read more →
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11/09/2015
Recap of the Industrial Internet Security Forum
By Evan Birkhead, VP Marketing and Business Development, Bayshore Networks At the first Industrial Internet Security Forum, held Tuesday at IBM headquarters in New York City, attendees were privileged to hear from leading cybersecurity technologists. Here are three take-aways from the event: 1. The best minds in security are turning... Read more →
11/03/2015
IIC Security TweetChat: Thoughts on Protecting Industrial Internet Systems, IIoT
By David Bisson, Associate Editor of "The State of Security" blog, Tripwire The Industrial Internet is currently one of the most exciting prospects for our web-connected world. This phenomenon, as Belden Inc explains, involves combining industrial machines with data-driven analytics to better understand business processes, reduce unplanned downtime, and increase... Read more →
10/27/2015
The Main Themes of Industrial Internet – Part III: Local Autonomy
By Dr. Shi-Wan Lin, IoT Technologist and Co-Chair of the Industrial Internet Consortium Technology Working Group This is Part 3 of a 3-part blog series. Read Part 1 and Part 2 here. As we work to realize the benefits of Smart Maintenance and Global Optimization in operations, it it tempting... Read more →
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10/19/2015
The Main Themes of Industrial Internet – Part II: Global Optimization
By Dr. Shi-Wan Lin, IoT Technologist and Co-Chair of the Industrial Internet Consortium Technology Working Group This is Part 2 of a 3-part blog series. Read Part 1 here. With connected assets, we can go beyond the theme of Smart Maintenance -- to seek a higher operational efficiency at the... Read more →
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10/05/2015
The Main Themes of Industrial Internet: Smart Maintenance, Global Optimization and Local Autonomy
By Dr. Shi-Wan Lin, IoT Technologist and Co-Chair of the Industrial Internet Consortium Technology Working Group This is part 1 of a 3-part blog series. Industrial Internet is the application of Internet of Things in the industrial space, often referred to as Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Industrial Internet systems... Read more →
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09/30/2015
Dynamic APIs: Negotiating Change
By Dave Duggal, Founder/Managing Director, EnterpriseWeb IT departments expose functionality via software interfaces to a wide variety of applications, microservices, systems, databases, devices and machines. Such interfaces are generally referred to as APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). The use of APIs has exploded with the growth of distributed computing driven by... Read more →
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09/18/2015
Putting IoT to Work in Barcelona
By Lynne Canavan, VP of Program Management, Industrial Internet Consortium Over the past 18 months, we’ve talked a lot about the work to be done in order to accelerate and enable the Industrial Internet. There has been progress on many fronts – the Industrial Internet Reference Architecture; establishing the common... Read more →
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09/14/2015
Approval from IIC for an IoT Testbed Solution Model
By Takao Mizutani, Senior Manager, Fujitsu Limited Approval by the Industrial Internet Consortium of Fujitsu's proposed IoT testbed, the Factory Operations Visibility and Intelligence model, is a great milestone for Fujitsu, and, we believe, the manufacturing industry as well. We anticipate that this will spur manufacturing on to increasingly take... Read more →
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