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The State of the MES Market. Goodbye, Old Friends.

by Rick Franzosa  |  October 28, 2019

The 2018-2019 Gartner/MESA International 'Business Value of MES' Survey published on October 18.  The 2019 Magic Quadrant for Manufacturing Execution Systems will publish (tentatively) tomorrow, October 29.  This blog presents some...

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How CX Changes When Your Customer is a Thing

by Don Scheibenreif  |  August 29, 2019

  Digital society is emerging around us. It is the collection of people, organizations and things that are engaged in persistent digital interactions. What's more, Internet-connected things and ambient artificial...

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Training versus Inference

by Paul DeBeasi  |  February 14, 2019

Few data-driven technologies provide greater opportunity to derive value from Internet of Things (IoT) initiatives as machine learning. The accelerated growth of data captured from the sensors in IoT solutions...

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Machine Learning Integration Options

by Paul DeBeasi  |  January 30, 2019

Machine learning projects are inherently different from traditional IT projects in that they are significantly more heuristic and experimental, requiring skills spanning multiple domains, including statistical analysis, data analysis and...

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It's 2018, Do You Know Where Your Digital Manufacturing Is?

by Rick Franzosa  |  October 22, 2018

What an exciting time for manufacturers!  Endless possibilities with new technologies taking the forefront.  Like the glimmering lights of a casino, vendors portray their "Industrie 4.0" solutions, Digital twins, Digital Threads,...

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2018 IoT Endpoint Security Assessment Services Survey

by Erik T. Heidt  |  August 30, 2018

2018 has seen a significant uptick in Gartner clients asking for help identifying security services in support of their IoT efforts. At this time I don't believe there is sufficient demand to make...

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"Lite" Works for Beer, but not for MES

by Rick Franzosa  |  July 16, 2018

There's a phenomenon that has become prevalent in the Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) market that is a source of confusion with manufacturers.  New solutions described as "MES-Lite" or "Thin MES" rely in...

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The Search for the Elixir of Interoperability Reaches IoT Land

by Andrew White  |  May 16, 2018

I saw with some interest an article today: New European consortium to improve IoT security, interoperability.  I have to say up front that I don't cover Internet of Things, nor do...

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IoT Security | NISTIR 8200 in Draft - Act NOW!

by Erik T. Heidt  |  February 14, 2018

We knew this was coming, and this is a big day in IoT security and risk management. Let's explore why it is important for your organization to take action now,...

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On-prem/Private IoT Platform Gotchas

by Erik T. Heidt  |  January 11, 2018

During 2017 I had a number of conversations with clients about where the computational power for their IoT projects would be located. In my webinar "IoT Target Architecture: Your Strategy's...

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