Digital 4 Industry

As we’ve witnessed, the upstream oil industry is inextricably dependent on the global barrel price of oil, and it has been in a world of hurt since the 2014 price collapse. Anadarko is one of those upstream oil companies struggling to...

Over the past two and a half years, the members of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) have been enthusiastically and creatively building an ecosystem in which participants can find other key IoT industry contributors and create...

As Expected, Cloud Dominates Oracle Open World once again took over Moscone Center in San Francisco for a week, and cloud discussion dominated. Right off the bat, Chairman and Chief Technology Officer Oracle Larry Ellison used a keynote address to...

For those that have been following this blog over the last year and a half you will know that we have been strong believers and proponents of the value that IIoT-enabled and advanced analytic solutions can provide upstream oil and gas companies....

A total of 257 startups from 41 countries have applied to Bind 4.0 and 52 of them have been pre-selected by the evaluation committee. They will have to pitch their Industry 4.0 projects to the 10 companies that will be signing up to €75,000...

In my last blog “Moving Beyond the Process Historian: IT Platforms Consume OT Data Entirely”, I described the shift in how industrial organizations are thinking about platforms for big data and analytics. The article describes business...

On September 14th, GE Digital announced it acquired asset performance management (APM) software leader, Meridium, Inc. According to the press release, “this acquisition will help GE Digital accelerate its comprehensive APM offering and provide...

When going on vacation to a foreign country, I often learn a few words of the local language to get by. There’s no time or need to be fully fluent, but it’s useful to know a handful of simple phrases. There are these mini phrasebooks...

In the past, operating companies in the process industries viewed the separation of enterprise and plant floor systems as a challenging hurdle. Integrating ERP and real-time plant data has been expensive and difficult to maintain at best....

Sometimes it makes sense for industrial suppliers to use an existing technology in their product or solution offerings, even if it comes from a competitor.  For example, Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) recently announced that...