The knock on renewables from the very beginning has been the lack of contingencies for peak energy demand. What happens when there is no wind, or when the sun doesn’t bother to shine? When renewables were a small percentage supplier of energy to the grid, this was a problem to be solved at some later […]
Continue Reading“Digital Twin” isn’t just a buzzword. It’s the tool that will help industrial companies build and maintain the world’s biggest projects. EPC companies — big project managers that handle Engineering-Procurement-Construction for large facilities — will need sophisticated configuration tools to optimize plant design. One form of the Digital Twin is called a facility-level multifaceted twin. […]
Continue ReadingWe are at the precipice of another industrial revolution, popularly known as Industry 4.0. There are several forces of technology that have the potential to shape Industry 4.0 — Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and the Internet of Things (IoT). But it’s the explosion of data in the last decade that will dictate how these […]
Continue ReadingIn the age of Industry 4.0, Big Data and the Internet of Things, manufacturing companies are, for the most part, focused on analyzing and using structured data sets. However, for all the data generated in your company, much of it, including “Crown Jewel Data sets” are trapped in monolithic storage architectures. What are Crown Jewel […]
Continue ReadingAugmented reality is much more than a consumer play. Companies that make large, complex machines and systems – say, a power plant builder, engine manufacturer or wind turbine maker – are implementing industrial applications in assembly, maintenance, repair, training, quality control, monitoring and product development. Imagine donning a head-mounted display unit and taking a virtual, […]
Continue ReadingThe aviation industry faces daily challenges in the management of massive data. Faced with a burgeoning growth of aviation stress and structural data, it is becoming increasingly difficult for engineers to find and quickly analyze mission-critical data. The problems are typically related to unstructured data access, find functions or “federated search” and data management. For […]
Continue ReadingThis post is part of our Universal Data Access series that explores four mandates of an essential data access platform. Other posts include “The Four Essential Mandates of a Data Access Strategy in 2017“, “Aggregating All Your Business Data for Universal Access“, “Never Lose a Thing With Universal Data Access“, and “Preserving Data Access and Tribal […]
Continue ReadingThis post is part of our Universal Data Access series that explores four mandates of an essential data access platform. Other posts include “The Four Essential Mandates of a Data Access Strategy in 2017“, “Aggregating All Your Business Data for Universal Access“, “Never Lose a Thing With Universal Data Access“, and “Creating a Secure Data Access Strategy“. […]
Continue ReadingThis post is part 3 of our Universal Data Access series that explores the 4 mandates of an essential data access platform. Other posts include “The Four Essential Mandates of a Data Access Strategy in 2017“, “Aggregating All Your Business Data for Universal Access“, “Preserving Data Access for the Future“, and “Creating a Secure Data Access Strategy“. […]
Continue ReadingThis post is part of our Universal Data Access series that explores four mandates of an essential data access strategy. Other posts include “The Four Essential Mandates of a Data Access Strategy in 2017“, “Never Lose a Thing With Universal Data Access“, “Preserving Data Access and Tribal Knowledge for the Future“, and “Creating a Secure Data […]
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