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The Coming Connected World Partly Driven By Technology, Partly By Generational Change
A couple years ago there was an earthquake in Charlottesville, Virginia and news of the earthquake sent via Twitter reached New York City faster than the shockwaves emanating from the epicenter. This event showed the world how connected we are through social media platforms and the data produced by them, providing a glimpse at the future.
Connectedness in automation is a burgeoning area in industrial manufacturing with the emergence of the Industrial Internet, the Internet of Things, intelligent machines, big data and analytics. These systems allow companies to gain insight into how to better run operations.
What Is New About Brilliant Machines?
Brilliant machines are a departure from what manufacturers have been doing for the past three decades. In order to performs well in a connected world or to make and sell equipment, systems are now being built from sensors, to control systems, to analytics and through human decision makers and back to machines.
Technology & Generational Change Driving Adoption Of Smart Systems
In the next five years, 40% of skilled manufacturing workers will retire, 50 billion new machines will be connected to the Internet and CIOs will be pressed to improve business through insights gleaned from intelligent manufacturing platforms.
As new generations of workers have grown up with information at their fingertips via smart devices, these workers will expect the same from manufacturing systems. At the same time, with the loss of the knowledge, expertise and experience of retiring workers smart systems are needed to replace these assets and in all likelihood new community based knowledge sharing and systems will replace them.
An example is the way in which encyclopedias have been replaced by services like Wikipedia where the knowledge of experts is replaced by the knowledge of a community.
A new age is dawning and it is exciting to be along for the ride!
Tags: big data, connected world, smar machines
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