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and used to track performance . These ratings can be aggregated and used as the basis for a single numerical value of trust : the trust rating .
Finally , note the importance of assurance , in principles 6 and 11 , and throughout the system . Industrial systems are built from multiple components from multiple suppliers and any one of them may be untrustworthy . You need evidence that each of them is indeed trustworthy . A single component can bring down a complete system , and with it your business .
INDUSTRY PROGRAMS The Business Deployment Accelerator , the heart of our industry program , has several parts :
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Testbeds are where the innovation and opportunities of the industrial internet – new technologies , new applications , new products , new services , new processes , new business can be initiated , thought through and rigorously tested to ascertain their usefulness and viability before coming to market . The OTA Go Kart Automotive testbed was recently added to our testbed program so far comprising 27
approved IIC testbeds .
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Test Drives are solutions that may be deployed as pilots to trial a technology . Test drives enable technology end users to learn about a technology in their facilities . Five test drives are approved ; most recently the Valuable Asset Tracking for Healthcare test drive .
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IoT Challenges aim at solving real problems and validating solutions that address specific end-user-identified pain points . In these challenges , architects and solution providers compete to design industrial internet solutions that address high-profile real-world problems .
These three parts are simply formalized mechanisms to deliver digital transformation to industry .
To do that , IIC members need to understand what changes technology end users wish to make . The IIC ’ s
Business Pain Point Collection initiative seeks to identify and understand business and industry pain points so our ecosystem may expedite business and industry guidance and solutions . We encourage everyone — members , liaison partners , non-member end users — to contribute to this collection . IIC will endeavor to identify digital transformation enablers that address the pain points so they may be deployed . Quickly .
Our
Industry Leadership Councils ( ILCs ) are executive roundtables of innovative strategists representing organizations who meet regularly to set the vision for next-generation solutions in their respective industries . The Manufacturing ILC produced the
first in a series of technical briefs aimed at help manufacturing leaders keep pace with rapid emergence of new technology .
The ILC meets quarterly and includes representatives from major companies ; additional end user companies are welcome . The general criteria for participation in an ILC are a director-level role or higher as well as actively implementing or using an IIoT solution in the corresponding field . The IIC also seeks to form an Energy ILC , focused on utilities and distributed energy management .
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