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A critical step in ensuring the quality of your data is to make sure IT doesn’t own it. Your IT team might be resourceful, and they may do an excellent job of making sure everything is running smoothly, but they should not be the keepers of the data. Data should be managed by the people who are living it day in and day out—those who know what it means and the importance of having that information be reliable.
David Greenfi eld on the fi ve causes of poor data quality.
Manufacturers reported a slew of benefi ts associated with cloud, edge, and fog computing technologies, with some notable standouts. For example, cloud computing was more likely to facilitate improvements to profi tability (50%) with edge and fog computing associated with boosting production output, cited by 54% and 38%, respectively.
Beth Stackpole on how the pandemic has accelerated edge-to-cloud connections.
The OPC Foundation created a multi-vendor interoperability demo that uses components from 20 di erent manufacturers to illustrate the functionality of the new OPC UA specifi cations. Focusing on horizontal forms of communication, such as controller-tocontroller, the demo shows how process data is exchanged via UDP/ IP using wired Ethernet or TSN (time-sensitive networking), as well as in combination with a 5G wireless connection.
David Miller on OPC Foundation updates to its Field Level Communication Specifi cation.
OEMs hold a lot of responsibility when it comes to keeping equipment secure, but it’s not an area they tend to have a lot of expertise in. In response, several industrial control system and security vendors are delivering OEM-specifi c tools.
Stephanie Neil on remote access cybersecurity management.
Software-as-a-Service analytics platforms are designed to span industry verticals and layers of industrial control while being marketed as versatile and fl exible. To be everything to all verticals and layers is to be nothing specifi cally to any of those constituents. As a result, large platforms require as much programming as smaller options.
