The blog about data-driven and sustainable production

Here you can read about our thoughts on the future of production. About how to become data-driven and collaborate with the industry at large to achieve sustainability.

Excellence in brown-field connectivity with Digital Twin Contracts™

Interested in connecting a lot of (old) machines to the cloud and making the data more accessible? Read on and we will tell you how this can easily be done in a fast yet flexible and future-proof way. What is brown-field connectivity? The term brown-field connectivity refers to

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How to reach the goal of having great system support for the aftermarket

In our previous articles about the life of innovative machine manufacturers and their aftermarket (links to the entire series can be found at the bottom), we have described which business systems are needed to handle the aftermarket efficiently and how your connected machines will do a large part of

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How to increase sales in your aftermarket with digital sellers

In previous articles in this series about the life of innovative machine manufacturers and their aftermarket (links to the entire series can be found at the bottom), we have described the importance of having a PLM / PIM system, a digital service book, connected machines, and alarm functions. Tools

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How your aftermarket benefits from a data-driven service book

This is the fourth article in our series about the life of innovative machine manufacturers and their aftermarket (links to the entire series can be found at the bottom). In this article, we take a closer look at services around the machines, which for many machine manufacturers is one

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How to make more aftermarket sales with connected machines

About the image: In the United States, dollar bills are printed by the Federal Reserve. Production is done in two factories, one in Washington D.C. and one in Fort Worth, Texas. The production of Swedish banknotes has recently been moved from Tumba outside Stockholm to a newly built printing

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The deficient system support and the aftermarket

The Big Red Machine you see in the image is the hockey team most in tune with each other so far in world history and a perfect metaphor for perfectly synchronized processes. Otherwise, we don’t feel the need to be associated with the former Soviet Union. In our first

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The costs to avoid in your aftermarket

This is about the life of innovative machine manufacturers and their aftermarket. It’s also the first piece in a series of articles about the unnecessary risks, the time that’s consumed, the cost and not to say the least, the pirates. Well managed, it is a fantastically profitable and sustainable

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Data-driven support streamlines and increases customer satisfaction for machine manufacturers

The contact one has with customer support has a great impact on the overall impression of a product’s quality. See an immediate effect on support staff and customers A large part of our customers are companies developing, manufacturing and selling their own machines. In addition to a good

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IoT vs IIoT? Same same, or different?

Most people today are aware that machines and devices can be online and communicate with other machines or with a human. Or vice versa. But is this IoT? Or is it IIoT, Industrial IoT? Or neither? The correct answer is: it depends. This text is our attempt to explain

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PropTech, a gamechanger in property asset management

Introduction A 6-minute read on why the property asset management business now is ready for a digital transformation and PropTech. Why is the property management business still a digital laggard? In industrial automation, no one questions the urgency for more digitalized processes. Every percentage of effectiveness gained in production can be

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IIoT and the UN Agenda 2030 for sustainable development

Introduction A 6-minute read on how IIoT and PropTech can help us in achieving sustainable development with a focus on goals 9, 11, and 12 of the UN Agenda 2030. Sustainability is not taken lightly anymore The late professor in Global Health, Dr. Hans Rosling, had a mantra as

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7 ways to cut your cloud costs for IIoT

Cloud services and data storage entail linear costs and they can be hard to foresee in the beginning of your digital transformation. Here are seven ways to avoid expensive surprises and to keep the cloud costs to a minimum. Introduction: Many have learnt the hard way Recently, we have been contacted

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Connectitude ♥ LoRa

LoRa makes the IIoT more accessible. So what is it and what does it mean? We have gathered frequently asked questions and answers here. Do you have more questions? Please contact Us! Why wireless? The major advantage in using wireless data traffic system for IIoT, are the costs compared

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A bright idea

Connectitude IoT LightUp From idea to product over a weekend Background We at Connectitude always strive to make things easily accessible and highly visual. No matter if it is for alarm and event notifications for Industrial IoT, using our Connectitude IIoT Platform, or if it is about internal notifications

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Soft values important in hard environments

5 minutes read on how to improve the communication and the teamwork between production shifts. Introduction to you, who never have visited a heavy industry First of all, you do not start your visit at a reception desk. Instead, you register to the guard at gate number 5. You

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Why IIoT?

As a manufacturing entrepreneur, you have certainly heard of IIoT or IoT but maybe not taken the time to find out what it is and how it can be beneficial for your company. IoT (Internet of Things) is the more generic technology and might be represented by your refrigerator

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The Future of Great AI

“Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future.” For those of you who know your Star Wars recognize the quote that Master Yoda express in the movie “The Empire Strikes Back”. Luke Dormehl wrote an article in his blog, “A.I. can do almost anything now, but here are

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Microsoft + Volkswagen = True

Microsoft and Volkswagen recently signed a strategic partnership where they will cooperate with the product ‘Volkswagen Automotive Cloud’. Azure cloud and Azure IoT Edge are some of the features from the Azure suite that will be utilized. One could guess that Azure’s powerful Machine Learning(ML) tools might come in handy in

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Priority Machine Learning

So why should you prioritize Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Machine Learning (ML) you may ask yourself? Richard Irwin explains in the article “Combining Machine Learning with IIoT Should Be Your Priority” how the combination will help you to save money, improve uptime and performance. IIoT has really

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Formula 1 and Machine Learning

Machine learning can be applied to many things. In IIoT, Industrial Internet of Things, we apply machine learning to improve production performance, predictive maintenance, business intelligence etc.. Now the biggest and fastest racing sport of the world plan to do the same. Formula 1 is the highest class of

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To the moon and beyond

Connectitude is a company within the software service and product business. We have a lot of great coworkers. It is a great mix of people who share the interest in technology to create great products. We would like to say that we are techies, all in different levels. NASA,

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Machine Learning basics

Quite often we see the words machine learning generously thrown out. Often it is in the right context, but sometimes not. To make machine learning work we need data or input. The more the better, which means that predictions can be more accurate. Machine learning is not a new

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Agriculture and IIoT

When mentioning IIoT we often speak of the manufacturing industry but why stop there. The agriculture nowadays is often run like large industries and the equipment gets more and more automated. The article The 6 Most Amazing AI Advances in Agriculture is a game changer for the agriculture industry. Using smart

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The next level of predictive maintenance

Ruban Phukan writes in the article, How AI and IIoT Are Making the Auto Industry More Aware, that automotive industry could take advantage of predictive maintenance after the cars have left the factory. One of the things IIoT helps companies with is predictive maintenance. However, why limit the predictivity to

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Making smart factories smarter

Taking the next step in the smart factory is to reach beyond predictive maintenance and production efficiency from factory floor data. The next step that leverages the smart factory could be to connect market data and calculate smart strategies for the production. A truly fascinating thought by Floyd Miller.

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Machine Learning & Manufacturing

In the article Adopt or Die: AI Leaves Manufacturing No Choice, John Hitch states that manufacturers who want to stay alive in a competitive environment need to adapt to machine learning. Improving the manufacturing efficiency daily with the help of machine learning techniques means that you stay ahead of your

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Edge computing explained

Cloud computing is surely something you have heard of before, but how about edge computing? Edge computing becomes more and more common for each day both in the consumer market and in the manufacturing industry. In our segment, edge computing is tightly coupled with IIoT. Diego Tamburini’s article, Enabling

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