Industrial IoT

It’s the dawn of a new era for utilities, and this year’s DistribuTECH is bringing some exciting new developments for the industry.  Held in San Antonio, Texas on January 23-25, be sure to take a walk along the Riverwalk, or America’s Venice!  As you break out your walking shoes to enjoy the v…

Across the United States, people are defrosting and starting to shovel their way out of January’s  Polar Vortex “bomb cyclone.” Even the state of Florida saw some chillier than usual temperatures. Florida has de-thawed now and next week security professionals from all-over head to South Beach for th…

In a previous blog, we discussed the role of new product introduction processes (NPI) and the part that collaboration tools are playing in helping drive better ideation while speeding time to production. Similarly, collaboration tools are rapidly changing maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) pr…

Customers, partners and industry leaders are soaking in Yucatan heat and learning about the latest developments in the Industrial IoT market this week at Cisco Live Cancun. Conference attendees have spent the last several days taking in educational sessions, gaining hands-on experience with the late…

SPS IPC Drives 2017 – Nuremberg Germany November 28-30, 2017 – Location: 10.0-320 (HOPF booth) I’m excited to announce that Cisco will have a presence at SPS Drives this year to showcase our network solutions with our partner, HOPF.  HOPF is a solution provider based in Germany that offe…

I recently took part in a plant tour with a manufacturer in the early days of modernizing its plant floor. Two decades old, this factory had always relied on manual data collection. The team hand-carried operational data back to the office to be correlated and analyzed. Then they would make improvem…

There has been a lot of discussion lately around why IoT projects fail. Many projects stall at the proof of concept (POC) phase, and only about a quarter of these investments are considered a success.  With these setbacks however, there are some notable achievements as well. As part of our factory o…

Digital transformation, digital business, digitization, digital disruption. There are countless ways to phrase it, but it boils down to this. When digital technologies enable new business models, that’s digital transformation. Digital factory initiatives are generating incredible business outcomes,…

April showers brings May flowers but if you are in Germany in late April, Hannover Messe is the breeding ground for innovation in the global manufacturing industry. HM is the largest Manufacturing show in Europe and due to the advancements that are being made with Industrie 4.0 and Industrial IoT ar…