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Time to read: 7 minutes  Posted by Omar Ahmed Based on my conversations with more than 500 manufacturing companies and integrators over the past five years, I believe the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) will continue to be a paramount part of the manufacturing landscape in 2021. The new year will bring a continued increase in digitalization across enterprises. While we have seen an increase in “digital transformation” initiatives among manufacturing companies for several years, the COVID-19 pandemic and the challenges it created for production, safety, remote access, and supply chain have accelerated the urgency to make digitalization a reality. I also believe IIoT projects will continue to scale because of changes we are seeing in people, processes, and technology.
Here are five predictions for 2021. Time to read: 4 Minutes  Posted by Tony Paine Communication within a start-up is pretty straightforward. If you have a question about a new product launch, you go directly to the owner or CEO. Problems with a design flaw? Talk to your lead engineer. As that business scales, your lines of communication become more complex. You may need to send information through multiple channels to get an answer. Without an easy way to send or retrieve information, it might get lost or misinterpreted or you may wait days for an answer. Anyone who has worked in that environment knows the inherent challenges.
Time to read: 4 minutes
 Posted by Omar Ahmed
Bill is leaving Acme Manufacturing Corporation. And when Bill leaves, he will take with him a tremendous amount of the tribal knowledge that he accumulated over the last 10 years at Acme. Bill has spent the last decade building out all of the industrial data systems and all of the individual connections between these disparate systems. Bill is the only person in the entire facility who has knowledge of the custom connections and interdependencies between OT and IT systems. With Bill leaving, the team at Acme is challenged with picking up the pieces and trying to gather up all of Bill’s tribal knowledge in order to maintain connectivity and prevent system downtime. The OT and IT teams must go deep into the custom code to try to understand and replicate what Bill has done. This is a challenging and cumbersome task, especially when troubleshooting broken integrations.
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