Not too surprisingly, the Internet of Things (IoT) and digitalization were hot topics at this year’s CSIA Executive Conference in Puerto Rico last week. I think it’s fair to say, […]

In February, two dominant industrial consortia for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) met in Zurich, Switzerland, to consider the potential alignment of their respective reference architectures. With a successful […]

Industrie 4.0 and Industrial Internet Consortium have been two different souls of a global trend. I was in some way disappointed from that, and wrote about the dualism in a […]

The phrase “smart manufacturing” has been heard everywhere this past year, and has become part of every discussion related to manufacturers’ need for a manufacturing execution system (MES) or manufacturing […]

Will machines take the place of people in factories? This is one of the questions most frequently asked about Smart Manufacturing. Why? Because for many years the prevalent belief has […]

January is typically the month of reflections and resolutions. A new year awaits us to improve on our past and aim at new targets. If this is true from a […]

The year at its turn, the whirring thread unrolls. One hour more, the last today, and what was living time is scrolls of dust dropping into a grave. I wait […]

When I look back on my experience as a system integrator and apply the changes I see taking place today, I see two competing issues affecting the future of industry. […]

When I think about the reduction of paper use in production—the so-called “paperless manufacturing”—I don’t feel that it is particularly innovative. I’ve been hearing about this for 15 years and […]

There are many different points of view when it comes to explaining what the term “smart manufacturing” means. The concept is complex because the term has very different meanings depending […]