Applying IIoT within Manufacturing
Letter from the Smart Factory Task Group co-chairs:
The Industrial Internet Consortium( IIC) Smart Factory Task Group is pleased to release the third edition of the Journal of Innovation. This edition focuses on Smart Factories, featuring the work of several IIC member organizations with both practical and forward-thinking expertise in designing, retrofitting, and applying Industrial Internet of Things( IIoT) technologies within the manufacturing industry.
Every day brings new challenges and new opportunities for manufacturers to make factories smarter, safer and greener than ever before. The IIC and the Smart Factory Task Group are addressing these challenges and opportunities by establishing Smart Factory thought leadership, promoting collaboration with Industrie 4.0, Made in China 2025, Factories of the Future, liaising with standards organizations and providing business decision makers with practical insight that helps assess, prioritize, implement, troubleshoot, and manage IIoT systems. Additionally, the IIC Testbed Program provides the chance for multi-disciplinary stakeholders to prove out complex systems and bring Industrial Internet solutions to life. Several of the IIC’ s most well established and widely used testbeds are in the areas of manufacturing quality, asset efficiency and time sensitive networking.
No single organization can solve all the interoperability problems of the IIoT. As a result, the IIC has a lot going on, and we’ re moving quickly. This publication is just one of many IIC activities illustrating how the Industrial Internet is revolutionizing smart manufacturing. If you work for an organization and would like to learn more about applying IIoT solutions to improve capabilities, reduce costs, address new use cases, or gain real-world experience via testbeds please explore our Web pages or visit an upcoming IIC Public Forum which are held quarterly across the globe.
Enjoy this Smart Factory edition of the IIC Journal of Innovation!
John Kowal Co-chair, IIC Smart Factory Task Group Director, Business Development, B & R Industrial Automation Corporation
Erik Walenza-Slabe Co-chair, IIC Smart Factory Task Group CEO, IoT ONE
Calvin Smith Co-chair, IIC Smart Factory Task Group Business Lead of IoT Strategy, Dell EMC
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