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Energy Storage: The Safety Net for Renewables

July 1, 2018 Battery Storage, Energy Storage, Data Access, Models and Simulations

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 […]

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Why EPCs Will Need the Multifaceted Digital Twin

December 1, 2017 EPCs, Digital Twins, Configurator

“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. […]

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Industry 4.0 Eats Dark, Unstructured Sensor Data

September 25, 2017 Unstructured Data, Predictive Analytics, Digital Twin, Universal Data Access

We 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 […]

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Mining For “Crown Jewel” Data Sets: Q&A With Manuel Terranova

September 11, 2017 Unstructured Data, Digital Twin, Universal Data Access

In 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 […]

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Augmented Reality for Industrial Applications

August 15, 2017 Data Access, Data Visualization, Digital Twin

Augmented 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, […]

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Unstructured Data Access in the Aviation Industry

September 1, 2017 Universal Data Access, Unstructured Data, dark data, tribal knowledge

The 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 […]

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Creating a Secure Data Access Strategy

August 1, 2017 Universal Data Access. Data Security

This 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 […]

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Preserving Data Access and Tribal Knowledge for the Future

July 15, 2017 Universal Data Access, Preserving Data Access

This 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“. […]

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Never Lose a Thing With Universal Data Access

July 1, 2017 Universal Data Access

This 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“. […]

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Aggregating All Your Business Data for Universal Access

June 15, 2017 Universal Data Access

This 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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