Monthly Archives: September 2017

Is PLM Ready for IIoT?

You can’t get away from it; IoT, the Internet of Things.  Connected devices everywhere.  It is estimated that there will be over 50 billion connected devices by 2020.  At this rate, our toasters will be connected to the internet! From your smartphone, you can control the heat level, monitor temperature and look for cool spots, watch the carbohydrates carbonize in

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Shadow Engineering

In a world of controlled, strict, non-flexible systems, people start to get creative.  For some, it’s the crushing weight of a massively customized ERP system that somehow spread out to every part of the organization, for others circumventing “inconvenient” safety devices; when things need to get done, sometimes we have to take matters into our own hands.  In the IT world, this

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