DEC - JAN, 20186 MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY INSIGHTS IoT has significantly transformed the manufacturing industry by bringing forth the vision of connected enterprise. With the concepts of smart factory and connected devices, manufacturers are changing the way they manufacture products while ensuring low downtimes, asset optimization, remote diagnosis and increased efficiency. Innovations in connectivity, analytics and machine learning have propelled the convergence of physical and digital worlds, opening up avenues to boost productivity and maximize revenues.The modern factory is tearing down the silos between design engineering, manufacturing engineering, manufacturing operations, and after-market support, treating them together as one process that needs to be tuned and optimized. This fosters transparency to find out how changes in inputs and processes can affect the output. The scope of IoT also extends to manufactured products that integrate sensors. These products provide OEMs operating data and enable two-way product support. Historically, data was generated primarily by internal operations and through transactions across the value chain. Now, these traditional sources of data are being supplemented by another source--the product itself, which can generate real-time readings that are unprecedented in their variety and volume. Connected products also have the ability to inform the supply chain about things like predicted demand for aftermarket parts.All these advances have resulted in gradual changes internally across cost, throughput and quality improvement opportunities as well as externally through opportunities to create additional value beyond the hardware. In effort to highlight the developments in IoT space, we have identified key players who are redefining new boundaries in the manufacturing IoT space through their extensive solution portfolio.Let us know your thoughts.Living the `Smart and Connected' EraEditorialCopyright © 2017 ValleyMedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher thereof.DEC - JAN, 2018IOT SPECIALMailing AddressValleyMedia, Inc. 44790 S. Grimmer Blvd Suite 202, Fremont, CA 94538T:510.936.8381, F:510-894.8405 DEC - JAN, 2018, Vol 03- Issue 08 Published by ValleyMedia, Inc. To subscribe to ManufacturingTechnology InsightsVisit www.manufacturingtechinologysights.com Editor-in-ChiefLaura DavisEditorial StaffSalesVisualizerMichael WilliamsK. ManojkumarLawrence Tse lawrence@manufacturingtechnologyinsights.comT:510 565 7628Ava Gracia Khyati DubalPeter ThomasVivian MurrayTECHNOLOGY INSIGHTSTECHNOLOGY INSIGHTSLaura DavisEditor-in-ChiefManufacturingTechnology InsightsWrite to useditor@manufacturingtechnologyinsights.com*Some of the Insights are based on the interviews with respective CIOs and CXOs to our editorial staff
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