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By Farid Bichareh, CTO, AASA, Inc. (Excerpted from IIC Tech Brief Digital Transformation in Manufacturing: Key Insights & Future Trends) The global pandemic is shaping a different world. In this new world, despite the short-term decrease in demand, in the medium-to-long run, the COVID-19 digital transformation impact seems to be... Read more →
By Seth DeSantis, Director, Brilliant Manufacturing P&E, GE Aviation (Excerpted from IIC Tech Brief Digital Transformation in Manufacturing: Key Insights & Future Trends) GE Aviation started its IIoT journey during the second quarter of 2015. That journey started when a group of engineers were looking to code custom PLC logic... Read more →
By IIC Thought Leadership Task Group Co-Chairs: Edy Liongosari, Chief Research Scientist, Accenture Labs, and Mark Crawford, Director, Standards Strategy, SAP As of this publication date, there have been more than 50.5 million cases of COVID-19 worldwide and more than 1.2 million deaths[1]. The virus has been detected in nearly... Read more →
By Michael Thomas, SAS Systems Architect, SAS (Excerpted from IIC Tech Brief.) AR is the digital augmentation of the physical world. The term is most popularly applied to wearable headgear that projects the digital augmentation directly on the wearer’s view of reality. Commonly, this is achieved by projecting the augmentation... Read more →
Organizations can either adopt change willingly and proactively, or forcibly by market demand. Any choice in the matter faced an unlikely dictator this year in the form of a worldwide pandemic. One that some organizations had no choice but to scale in ways they had only previously envisaged, within the context of a long-term strategy.... Read more →
Once recognized as slow to adapt to technology, the construction segment is now an industry on the fast track. By connecting start-ups with major industry organizations, the Industrial Internet Consortium's Smart Construction Challenge enabled implementations of the next-gen smart construction digital ecosystems.... Read more →
Disruptive technologies are transforming all industries into digital industries and repositioning them to reap the benefits of Industry 4.0. In the industrial context, digital transformation (DX) is primarily a business objective.The IIC has captured the many challenges and technological hurdles that accompany this journey along with guidance in their recently published white paper, Digital Transformation in Industry.... Read more →
We pride ourselves in our resilience and our ability to think and invent our way out of a crisis. Technological optimism has been one of the engines of modern life, and its promise has often held true in the past. Time and again, technology has helped us master the challenges of history. At the same time, we have become reliant on it, and too often willfully ignorant of the consequences.... Read more →
We lost a beloved colleague earlier this week. I wanted to take this time and space to express our gratitude for having the great fortune to have known Brett Murphy in his too-short life and share how important he has been to us. Brett Murphy has been a member of... Read more →
Software trustworthiness – what does it mean for developers, owner-operators and decision makers in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems? The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) recently published a white paper, Software Trustworthiness Best Practices, that delved into the complete software lifecycle process, including such practical issues as software updates and end-of-life strategies, as well as among many other issues, considering vulnerabilities in the system environment and the consequences of failure in such environments. The overall objective of the white paper was to take a comprehensive look at all of the elements involved in achieving the ultimate goal of trustworthy software and protection mechanisms that produce predictable and desirable business and operational outcomes in the IIoT.... Read more →
We are excited to announce the official launch of the IIC Community Forum for you, the IIoT community. We invite you all to be part of this initiative and to spread the word to your colleagues, peers and customers.... Read more →
Since it was founded in March 2014, the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has been tested and proven to bring together organizations and technologies necessary to accelerate the growth of the industrial internet. The organization has become the largest IIoT consortium in the world and proven to be a thought leader repeatedly through identifying, assembling, testing and promoting best practices. 2019 was indubitably one of the most transformative, influential years so far.... Read more →
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have made huge gains over the last few years, thanks to the vast amount of data available and to the gains made in raw hardware processing power. The success of AI and ML also comes with certain risks, however – in particular the risks around privacy of the collected data... Read more →
Trustworthiness in the Internet of Things and Digital Transformation is a concept that has been pioneered by the Industrial Internet Consortium. It’s a really innovative concept in this context, and is destined to make much of today’s debate about simple ‘Security’ seem out of date.... Read more →