At the recent Smart Industry 2016, held in Chicago Sept. 26-28, Phil Marshall, CEO of Hilscher North America, Inc., joined other experts on a panel to address “Preparing Legacy Systems for the Industrial Internet of Things.”
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OPC UA Supports Advanced IIoT Models
Hilscher’s netIOT family leverages OPC UA to kick-start a new era in automation
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Is your “shadow network" in place?
Believe it or not it’s 30 years since automation went “digital”. Yes, digital networks were around for some time before that (some of those still are!) but the networking of “smart” field devices really began around 1987.
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OPC Foundation and Object Management Group (OMG) Announce Collaborative Strategy for the OPC UA and DDS Connectivity Standards
The two standards organizations, along with the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and members of Industrie 4.0 define a position paper describing how they will cooperate with their communication technologies, OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) and Data Distribution Services (DDS)
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Will Artificial Intelligence Give Us the Edge?
Current applications and research indicate that thinking machines will play a significant role in automation technologies sooner rather than later.
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Hilscher @ SINDEX 2016
Gain insights on the continuous communication from sensor to IT/cloud. Hilscher Swiss demonstrates a communication in a live showcase through netIOT Edge Gateway Connectivity at the Sindex 2016 trade fair in Bern.
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How “Industrial Cloud Communications” Delivers the Benefits of Internet-Connected Manufacturing - Part 2
The industry is facing a paradigm shift worldwide – and Hilscher has always been a forerunner of significant changes.
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2016: The Year of the IIoT Solution?
After two years of hype and the promise of gazillions of dollars in realized benefits, is this the year in which we’re going to see real automation applications? Will terms such as “Big Data” and “cloud analytics” finally make it into our mainstream vocabularies?
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How “Industrial Cloud Communications” Delivers the Benefits of Internet-Connected Manufacturing - Part 1
The industry is facing a paradigm shift worldwide – and Hilscher has always been a forerunner of significant changes.
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Japan’s Take on the Industrial Internet of Things
A first-person account of how the Japanese market is approaching Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things based on observations from two major automation fairs held recently in Tokyo.
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