Practical guides on factory digitalisation, industrial IoT, and getting data out of machines that were never designed to share it. Written by the people who do the installations.
Compressed air is often the most expensive utility in a factory and the least measured. Here is what to measure, how to get the data off compressors that were never designed to share it, and what to do with it once you have it.
Read article →Your machines are fine. They just do not talk. Here is the realistic path from a twenty-year-old machine with a PLC to a dashboard you can read from your phone — and the parts of it that are harder than the vendors suggest.
Read article →Industry 4.0 discussions aimed at SMEs tend to describe the destination and skip the first step. This is the first step — chosen so that it pays for itself before you commit to anything larger.
Read article →We would rather answer it directly than have you guess. Technical questions reach an engineer.