Growing A Digital Mindset in the Lime Industry With An IIoT Platform…
Clearly, the advantage of doing so was to
make the exchange of information flexible,
fast, cost-effective and less time-consuming:
The content would be the center of
discussions and relationships
between
customers
and
suppliers.
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restructured to reflect the factory’s
operating status: “I’m operating, I'm in
alarm, I need maintenance, I need
assistance”.
Figure 3 How do you Feel Today Facebook Status Example
Once the plant is equipped with the
technology to collect data about its various
states of operation, this data can be
proactively shared as information with the
people involved and interested in it.
The next generation of connectivity will link
together appliances, cars and all kinds of
objects. This transformation will open new
opportunities, spawn new business models,
and herald yet another major
inflection point that leaders must
manage. 4
In the world of social media, there
is a group of "followers" who work
together, sharing a problem, a
subject or content. In the same way my
friends see my status on a social media
platform, an enterprise community
comprised of the users of one of QualiCal’s
plants could be informed about “how the
plant feels today” with respect to its
industrial assets and components.
Figure 4 How Plant Feels Today MOSAICO Status Example
I set myself to work to create what would
soon be renamed as the industrial internet
platform by industry giants such as AT&T,
Cisco, General Electric, IBM, and Intel
(Founding members of the IIC in 2014) 5 . The
industrial internet is an interconnecting
system between machines (assets equipped
with all the necessary sensors), big data
For example, phrases such as “I'm excited,
happy, surprised, disappointed” can be
4
6 Social Media Skills Every Leader Needs” Roland Deiser, Sylvain Newton, Mckinsey, February 2013 [Online]:
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/high-tech/our-insights/six-social-media-skills-every-leader-needs
5
“Industry Sees Its Digital Future But Needs Help Seeing The Path There”, Maggie Sieger, GE REPORT, Oct 29, 2017 [Online]:
https://www.ge.com/reports/industry-sees-digital-future-needs-help-seeing-path/
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