While the Industrial IoT (IIoT) is so broad, so deep, so creative and so full of possibilities, we can get caught up in the all the technical moving parts – from the silicon and sensors, to the actuators and gateways, to edge compute, cloud compute, and all the networking in between. The single most valuable aspect of IIoT can be captured in one word: data. […]

Digital supply chain management, including asset tracking, monitoring, management and automation is becoming increasingly broad, as businesses are under pressure to extract as much cost as possible out of operations, while also improving service. I am sure you have heard all the terms – Industry 4.0, Digital Transformation, Digital Supply Chain Management, but are these buzzwords detached from what is practical and achievable? The next-generation […]

The physical ecosystem associated with the massive rail industry in the U.S. is legendary, and complicated. The world’s largest banks including PNC Financial, CIT Group, Wells Fargo and Citigroup own and lease hundreds of thousands of railcars that transport commodities through North America. Large rail operators are trying to use fewer trains to save money, and nearly 400,000 railcars are in storage, according to the […]