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Compressed air is essential to industrial production. It powers machinery, valves, and hand tools in industries from manufacturing to mining and power generation. It is very convenient, but it's also expensive to generate as it takes electricity to compress the…

Intralogistics is all about the movement of materials in manufacturing or logistics facilities. From forklifts and automated guided vehicles to locating tags - expending energy 24/7. Monitoring energy consumption inbound and outbound, and optimizing it in real time, is a…

Operating fine-tuned machines located in harsh, remote environments is not for the faint-hearted, but the Internet of Things (IoT) can make it easier. Wind power is a great example of this. Imagine giant turbines sitting offshore. Every day there are…

A customer for a new IoT project said to me: “Jürgen, we know exactly what won’t work.” Obviously, his past experiences with IoT hadn’t always been positive. Unfortunately, he’s not alone. Many companies say that their IoT projects aren’t going…

Just as you thought things were going to get better after the Covid-19 pandemic, it appears that they’re about to get a whole lot worse.   Inflation, skyrocketing energy prices, the cost-of-living crisis, global supply chain issues, food shortages and the…

Product managers need to understand what their customers want and, in the past, had to rely on research like focus groups, surveys, and conversations with customers. And this worked, somewhat, but it took a significant amount of time and was…

There is one company that is not only dealing with supply chain woes, but also making sure that they don’t happen in the future. That company is DHL Express. The logistics industry has undergone tremendous transformation with Covid-19, and these…

At the Zolder circuit racetrack in Belgium, a purple and white vehicle speeds by with a whirr. It’s the Mitsu-Bachi F110e—an all-electric powered race car with a 130 KW motor allowing acceleration to 210 km/h. Its purpose? Other than to…

As the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) grows, the rising number of connected devices and equipment generate an ever-accelerating amount of data – challenging centralized cloud computing strategies. The IIoT is a tremendous success story: Over half of all companies…