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What You Need to Know About the IIC’s Digital Transformation Enabler Playbooks

Organizations in industry are under pressure from a relentless barrage of emerging and emergent digital technologies that threaten to disrupt and transform their business and operations. Organizations that fail to act on these threats (and opportunities) risk significant disruptions to their business and operations, exposing them to pressures from nimbler and more innovative competitors threatening to make them obsolete.

Digital transformation is a catch-all term that refers to efforts by organizations to leverage disruptive technologies and transform the way they operate and deliver value to the market. The overall objective is to deliver better outcomes to customers and shareholders and achieve better ROI, while maintaining compliance, security and trustworthiness throughout the transformation journey.

The term industry digital transformation (IDX) reflects the digital transformation context within industry. IDX is primarily a business endeavor focused on the coherent and innovative application of emerging and emergent digital technologies in a principled manner, and the strategic realignment of the organization towards the improvement of business models, industrial models, and processes and ultimately the creation of entirely new ones.

One important aspect of IDX initiatives is that they involve sensor-driven IoT solutions that by definition incorporate a digital/physical boundary. This results in concerns about the IT/OT divide and a potential convergence and integration between their respective operations. These concerns manifest themselves during the transformation journey and at multiple levels, including systems, procedures, best practices, compliance, organization structure and workforce.

Digital Transformation Enablers

Digital transformation enablers (DXEs) are specific digital technologies that can enable or accelerate the transformative effects of core processes, the enterprise and its operations.

A DXE playbook provides a description of a DXE (focused on a particular technology) and includes examples of the use of this technology in real-world applications, the issues that had to be considered and the concerns that had to be dealt with, and how. The document can also help a stakeholder understand ways in which this technology can transform a core process and ultimately a business, ranging from strategies and policies to frameworks, standards and technologies. DX efforts are driven by business initiatives that are often motivated by pain points, such as difficulties in uploading software to automobiles or the high costs associated with unscheduled maintenance.

Some DXEs apply to a specific set of application verticals, although many can be employed more widely. However, since adopters can generally understand examples pertaining to their own industry better than examples in other industries, DXE playbooks will include multiple examples to foster deeper understanding. The DXE playbook supplements associated frameworks by providing guide points rather than a map of the technical and architectural capabilities and considerations related to the technology.

How to Use a DXE Playbook

The following diagram highlights the steps involved in using a digital transformation enabler:

Figure: Steps involved in using the DX Enabler. Source: IIC.

These steps are typically executed in the following order:

  • The reader reads the DXE playbook.
  • With the knowledge gained, the reader’s organization begins ML-specific tasks (design, implementation, operation) that support the DX journey.
  • This transformation enables the organization to achieve a transformative outcome.
  • The organization is now equipped to fulfill new goals in a way that were not possible before the transformation.
  • The reader can now perform a gap analysis to see in which ways the organization can be improved.
  • This analysis drives the creation of new requirements.
  • New requirements may call for the deployment of a new technology that has not yet been previously considered.
  • The reader obtains another DXE playbook focused on this new technology and restarts the process again at the first step.

Each DXE playbook is aligned with the viewpoints of the industrial IoT as defined in the IIC Industrial Internet Reference Architecture (IIRA). It is also aligned with the specific technology frameworks that are regularly published by the IIC. For example, the Industrial IoT Analytics Framework, the Industrial IoT Artificial Intelligence Framework and Industrial Internet Security Framework.

DXE Playbook for Machine Learning

The first playbook published by the IIC is the Digital Transformation Enabler (DXE) playbook. It provides a high-level description of digital transformation and of machine learning (ML) technology (artificial intelligence). It offers examples and insights into ways this technology has been successfully deployed in industrial IoT environments to transform those businesses and their operations digitally.

It also provides technical guidance that helps organizations to uncover new and transformative ML-based solutions to deal with customer problems, enabling the creation of value-added services that drive new revenue streams.

Playbooks and templates are available for free. To create a Digital Transformation Enabler playbook for your organization’s featured technology, you are invited to download the MS Word templates:

  • Digital Transformation Enabler: Machine Learning
    – From the Industry Working Group and the Digital Transformation Working Group
  • Digital Transformation Enabler Playbook Templates
    >Digital Transformation Enabler – MS Word Template
    > Digital Transformation Enabler – MS Word Template for Your Technology Example (Playbook Section 3)
    – From the Industry Working Group and the Digital Transformation Working Group

For further information about digital transformation:

  • Digital Transformation in Industry, IIC Industry White Paper
  • Digital Transformation Journey in the Enterprise and its Leadership from the IIC Journal of Innovation

Posted at 3:51 pm in Adopting the Industrial Internet,Industrial Internet Innovation,Industry IoT Consortium,Technology, | Permalink

03/31/2023

What You Need to Know About the IIC’s IoT Pattern Initiative

The Industry IoT Consortium (IIC) is producing a library of IoT architectural and design patterns for cross-industry use. The first […]... Read more →

Posted at 12:28 pm in Adopting the Industrial Internet,Applications,Industry IoT Consortium,Science,Technology,Updates From the IIC, | Permalink

03/16/2023

Applications of Industrial Machine Vision

New advances in cameras, processors and AI provide a wealth of opportunity for IoT operations. With advances in technology, cameras […]... Read more →

Posted at 6:25 pm in Adopting the Industrial Internet,Applications,Industry IoT Consortium,Manufacturing,Science,Technology, | Permalink

08/10/2022

Future Connectivity – Successfully Tested Today

Update from the Time Sensitive Network (TSN) Testbed by Florian Frick (ISW – Stuttgart), chair of the IIC TSN Testbed […]... Read more →

Posted at 1:42 pm in Industrial Internet Consortium,Industrial Internet Innovation,Industrial Internet Standards,Industry IoT Consortium,Uncategorized,Updates From the IIC, | Permalink

08/08/2022

Turning Headwinds into Tailwinds Part 2

Digital transformation enablers are specific digital technologies, best practices, or approaches that (surprise!) enable digital transformation. The effect of a […]... Read more →

Posted at 4:05 pm in Industrial Internet Consortium,Industry IoT Consortium, | Permalink

08/01/2022

Turning Headwinds into Tailwinds

By Stephen Mellor, CTO of Industry IoT Consortium How IIC members turn wind resistance into wind assistance The Industry IoT […]... Read more →

Posted at 6:41 pm in Industry IoT Consortium, | Permalink

07/21/2022

Turning Headwinds into Tailwinds

How IIC members turn wind resistance into wind assistance The Industry IoT Consortium was founded 2014-03-27 by five global companies […]... Read more →

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07/07/2022

Pattern Systems a necessity for progress in IoT

Written by Daniel Burkhardt/Ferdinand Steinbeis Institute and Eric Simmon/NIST We believe “pattern” is a term that you can see nowadays […]... Read more →

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06/20/2022

Meet the IIC Experts: Edy Liongosari, Accenture

Edy Liongosari, Chief Research Scientist at Accenture Labs, discusses his role in the IIC Thought Leadership Task Group and the […]... Read more →

Posted at 6:03 pm in Industry IoT Consortium,Meet the IIC Experts, | Permalink

Industry IoT Consortium Updates Industrial Internet Connectivity Framework

We are happy to announce the updated version of the Industrial Internet Connectivity Framework (IICF), a foundation document that guides the […]... Read more →

Posted at 5:10 pm in Industrial Internet Consortium,Technology,Uncategorized, | Permalink

03/21/2022

A Framework for Industrial Artificial Intelligence

A typical multi-party asset tracking application involves shippers, receivers and a freight-carrier network with multiple stakeholders (e.g., manufacturer, distributor, provider, carrier) that have mutual obligations to deliver assets in time. Unfortunately, the traditional asset-tracking solutions have posed a multitude of concerns due to the lack of trustworthy and transparent information across the supply chain.... Read more →

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01/27/2022

AuthTrail: A Trusted and Transparent Asset Tracking Framework

By Xinxin Fan and Raullen (Qi) Chai, IoTex A typical multi-party asset tracking application involves shippers, receivers and a freight-carrier network with multiple stakeholders (e.g., manufacturer, distributor, provider, carrier) that have mutual obligations to deliver assets in time. Unfortunately, the traditional asset-tracking solutions have posed a multitude of concerns due..... Read more →

Posted at 2:34 am in Uncategorized, | Permalink

11/30/2021

New Journal of Innovation! Rapid Advancements in Digital Transformation

Read the Journal of Innovation here Digital transformation is hardly a new topic. From the early beginnings of the IT revolution, over six decades ago, organizations have leveraged digital technologies to digitize their information, digitalize their business processes to enhance their operational efficiencies, optimize the way they deliver value to... Read more →

Posted at 7:08 am in Uncategorized, | Permalink

09/01/2021

Consequences of Inattention to Trustworthiness: An Automotive Example

By Frederick Hirsch, Upham Security Third in a series of blogs from the Industry IoT Consortium Trustworthiness Task Group. For a comprehensive look at trustworthiness foundations in IIoT, download our foundational document. Connected systems introduce risks to each other, so a single system cannot be effectively trusted unless the other... Read more →

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Tags: CYBER, IIC, IOT, IOTSECURITY, SECURITY, TRUSTWORTHINESS,

08/10/2021

A Look at Trustworthiness & its Key Characteristics in Context

By Bob Martin, MITRE Second in a series of blogs from the Industrial Internet Consortium Trustworthy Task Group. For a comprehensive look at trustworthiness foundations in IIoT, download our foundational document. Definition Trustworthiness The degree of confidence one has that the system performs as expected. Characteristics include safety, security, privacy... Read more →

Posted at 7:28 am in Uncategorized, | Permalink

Tags: CYBER, IIC, IOT, IOTSECURITY, MITRE, SECURITY, TRUSTWORTHINESS,

07/28/2021

Trustworthiness for Cyber-Physical Systems

By Marcellus Buchheit, Co-founder of WIBU-SYSTEMS AG, President and CEO of WIBU-SYSTEMS USA First in a series of blogs from the Industry IoT Consortium Trustworthiness Task Group. For a comprehensive look at trustworthiness foundations in IIoT, download our foundational document. Trustworthiness, and confidence in that trustworthiness, are essential aspects of... Read more →

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