Opinion Pieces
Three ways to make your Industry 4.0 strategy pay
If you work in an industrial organisation, you already know that your future is digital. Across sectors, from manufacturing and logistics to energy and utilities...
Read MoreHow to convince your top team that Industry 4.0 will pay
The biggest challenge of industrial digitalisation isn’t technology, it’s people. Before IoT, advanced analytics or augmented reality can fulfil their...
Read MoreBuilding an Industry 4.0 business case
Many industrial companies are now looking to exploit the potential of the new wave of smart digital approaches, such as advanced analytics...
Read MoreWhy industrial cyber security must be built in, not bolted on
Cyber-attacks on industrial control systems are a real – and growing – threat. In one survey of infrastructure firms, more than half admitted...
Read MoreSmoothing the transition from DNO to DSO
Long gone are the days when electricity distribution was all about delivering power in a linear, one-way flow from producer to consumer based simply...
Read MoreIndustry 4.0 in practice
It’s just a buzzword, right? Or is it a way for the technology industry to sell new lucrative products and services that solve problems companies don’t really have? Businesses are right to be skeptical any...
Read MoreIndustrial control systems of the future need intelligence everywhere
Data in itself has limited value, it’s what you do with it that counts. The true value of the industrial internet of things (IIoT) doesn’t come from...
Read MoreIf Data is the new currency, which Bank should you trust?
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been with my bank for over 30 years and I know I’m not the only one. I recently read an article that stated statistically...
Read MoreWhere next for Systems Integrators?
For industrial businesses, the digital revolution is driving far-reaching organisational change. As the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) advanced analytics and artificial intelligence technologies...
Read MoreWinning the war in cyberspace
A trawl through the latest news on the subject of cyber security throws up a whole host of troubling headlines: ‘Orangeworm’ cyber-attack group targets health sector; Lack of cyber security funding...
Read MoreWhat has finding a good plumber got to do with the latest advances in Industry 4.0?
Hopefully that grabbed your attention. So, if like me, you are at all interested in the area of industrial...
Read MoreSecurity, process, control
To protect Industrial Control Systems (ICS) from cyber threats, you need robust security processes across the whole organisation. As we’ve noted before, cyber-security is not something that can...
Read MoreVisualising Industry 4.0
Much of the discussion surrounding Industry 4.0 is focused on decision-making by machines. That is certainly a key area of innovation and rapid progress. Advanced automation systems, artificial...
Read MoreIndustry 4.0 – is it really the next big thing?
Industry 4.0 is about combining the physical world of products and manufacturing machines with the digital world of rapid communication, advanced...
Read MoreYour people are a critical-link in the industrial cyber-security chain
Most successful cyber-attacks rely on human fallibility. Authorised users can be tricked into disclosing passwords or installing malicious ...
Read MoreIoT – Getting away from the point
IoT – Getting away from the point The Internet of Things gives companies digital access to thousands of individual objects...
Read MoreIndustry 4.0: ready to make the leap
Industry 4.0, or “Smart Manufacturing” if you prefer the U.S. term, covers a broad range of concepts and technologies...
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