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New Cisco Validated Designs offer customers more recipes for IoT success
In the kitchen, you strive to use the highest-quality ingredients possible. But you don’t typically serve one or two ingredients on a plate. Instead, you build a plan for what to serve and how to combine the ingredients to achieve the desired results. Unless you’re a culinary whiz, you probably want…
HMI 2019: Connecting the Dots
While at Hannover Messe 2019 a couple of weeks ago, I was struck by how much the event has changed since nine years ago. Back then, the halls were dominated by components and controls. It was about five years ago that Industry 4.0 emerged, with many dismissing it as some combination of hype and pipe…
Five Ways to Connect with Cisco IoT at Hannover Messe
The excitement is building as the Cisco IoT team continues preparing for Hannover Messe, April 1 – 5, 2019. With this year’s event focused on the intersection of Industry 4.0 and artificial intelligence, we’ll be showcasing our strengths in factory networking, industrial security, edge computing and…
Lessons from Hannover Messe: 5 Ways to Leverage IT for Your Industrial Ops
At the 2017 Hannover Messe this week, I talked with dozens of manufacturing execs trying to figure out how to move forward their platforms, teams, and philosophies to enable Industrie 4.0 outcomes at scale. Our customers are already connecting thousands of intelligent devices and demanding new trans…
Making the Factory of the Future a Reality with FANUC
A jam-packed media briefing room in Tokyo was the site of a big announcement this week. FANUC, the world’s leading maker of industrial robots, announced a collaborative effort with Cisco, Rockwell Automation, and Preferred Networks (PFN) to jointly develop and deploy the FANUC Intelligent Edge Link…
The Future of Manufacturing in a Connected World: Learn More at Automation Fair
Recently, there’s been a lot of discussion around digital disruption in various industries and in particular, how manufacturers need to jumpstart their digital transformation and adopt digital business models. We think the future of manufacturing in a connected world requires a roadmap as you go th…
Connected Machines: Reducing Unplanned Downtime and Improving Service
Many manufacturers operate at high volumes, and unplanned production downtime is costly. One leading auto manufacturer estimates unplanned downtime in a factory can cost them as much as $20,000 per minute. Often these line down situations are the result of production machine failures that could be a…
Mitigating Security Threats in Manufacturing with Cisco’s Connected Factory
Today’s manufacturing industry faces an aging industrial machinery infrastructure that presents huge security challenges poised for continued growth in the coming months and years. Increasingly, manufacturers are beginning to view data security as a top barrier to realizing the value of the Internet…
Making the ‘Plant of the Future’ a Reality Today
At Automation Fair last month, I participated in several sessions and industry forums as part of Cisco’s participation in this event, which is Rockwell Automation’s largest user conference. What struck me were some of the urgency for many manufacturers in investing in key technologies in their plant…