This is Dave Edstrom's personal blog called Photons and Electrons. This blog is about technology, as well as some of my personal interests. I am the CEO/CTO of Virtual Photons Electrons. I was the CTO for MEMEX for three years, the President and Chairman of the Board for the MTConnect Institute from May 2010 to January 2014 and prior to that I spent 23 years at Sun Microsystems.
Thursday, August 6, 2015
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and MTConnect
We are in the hype phase right now with Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). The hype phase is where real-life questions are not asked.
The single most important question is, "so, how do connect all of these 'things' together and easily get meaningful data from them?" Sound familiar to those of you who have tried to connect your machine tools? It should, because this is a fundamental problem and it has been answered by MTConnect.
What we are seeing with shop floor monitoring companies and MTConnect enabled manufacturers is a significant increase in how to deploy sensors to augment their dashboards and reports to improve performance and lower costs through additional data. Simple examples such as adding coolant, temperature, pressure, pH, noise, analog and digital sensors is just the start. There has been a sensor group for many years at the MTConnect Institute and IIoT will drive increased membership for companies who want to MTConnect enable their devices, sensors and other 'things'. MTConnect is the pathway for IIoT success in manufacturing."
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