BIG data and the industrial internet of things; what this could mean for manufacturers

Posted on 5 Jan 2015 by The Manufacturer

The rapidly growing adoption of the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) and companies looking to leverage existing IoT now presents an exciting opportunity for manufacturing companies. By combining consumer driven big data with IoT, machine-generated data can merge with data created by humans.

This facilitates deeper insights and enhanced real-time decision making, and holds positive implications for the future of manufacturing. Manufacturing is already well established as “machine data driven’. The machine to machine (M2M) layer is very mature and although connectivity does exist, it is limited to certain data sources within the processes along a supply chain. …

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