Manufacturing Magazine March 2015 | Page 20

TECHNOLOGY enhanced service models for mobile devices . Mobile Device Management and Mobile Lifecycle Management provide new paths to move from CAPEX to OPEX models . Through managing IoT connected devices across all assets , manufacturers have greater visibility of processes within a secure cloud environment .
Mobility is going to become a boardroom concern
Automation is going to be key to the future of manufacturing
Automation The Internet of Things is revolutionising automation improving responsiveness and accuracy . IoT is collecting data which is turned into business valuable information in order to improve production processes , or for example to monitor stock inventories to provide real time visibility of inventory which will lead to liner production processes .
And other example in the manufacturing shop floor is to monitor the status and conditions of machine so that predictive maintenance could be implemented which in the end will lead to less unplanned downtime
The face of the manufacturing is changing significantly , and it ’ s impossible to ignore the key role that IoT enabled technology plays in driving this . In reducing the distinction between the physical and the digital ,
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