Good Governance for Dark Data: Guidelines for Industrial IoT Managers
By Gregory Gimpel and Allan Alter
Companies are introducing “smart products” and deploying sensors into the environment, intent on gaining data-driven insights. Although often framed...
The Case for Automation in Manufacturing
It seems wherever you read, people are either fascinated with automation or downright scared of it. For companies, it presents endless possibilities for innovation...
Enter the Industry 4.0 Era Today by Using “Dark Data” You Already Have
By Gregory Gimpel and Allan Alter
The Industrial Internet-of-Things (IoT), also known as Industry 4.0, provides new opportunities to harness data-driven insights to improve business...
Managing Remote Industrial Sites, Assets and Infrastructure with Automated UAVs
There are many challenges associated with managing industrial facilities and infrastructure, and the difficulty of those challenges increases exponentially when those facilities are remote...
Why the Fourth Industrial Revolution Requires More Supply Chain CEOs
By Wolfgang Lehmacher
CEOs need to transform businesses – an imperative which is increasingly relevant in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Apparently, as the supply chain...
Digital Twins: How Big is the Opportunity for Industrial Organisations?
By Deborah Sherry
Looking at how advanced our world has become, a bridge to the virtual world is no longer an imagination as the concept...
Industry 4.0 –Designing the Factory of Tomorrow in North Rhine-Westphalia
It is the topic with the biggest economic dynamic. Industry 4.0 is revolutionising the production process – and North RhineWestphalia (NRW), Germany's industrial heartland,...
The Real Industry 4.0 Challenge
By Richard Markoff and Ralf Seifert
As the manufacturing industry enters into the fourth industrial revolution or the Industry 4.0, supply chain leaders are challenged...
Breaking the Mould! A New Business Model for the 21st Century
By Karl-Heinz Streibich The pace of change in the digital era is too fast, and survival is the main objective. Software AG CEO Karl-Heinz Streibich...
Who Needs Silicon Valley? Made in Digital Germany is Europe’s Big Hope
The industrial and manufacturing landscape of 2025 will be massively different from today and every single “traditional” company has to digitally innovate if it...
A New World Order with Industry 4.0
From the Editors The Internet of things has invaded individual space and now live in our pockets in the shape of that little computer gadget...
Industry 4.0: How Businesses in Aargau are Mastering Technological Change
Businesses operating in Switzerland are particularly exposed to global competition. High production costs and the strong Swiss franc mean that they are forced to...