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Smart Manufacturing: Optimizing Manufacturing Operations with Technology

By Dick Weisinger

Smart manufacturing.  It’s the use of advanced data analysis and software algorithms to optimize the workings of manufacturing.  The goal is to increase efficiency, eliminate waste, and be significantly more cost efficient.  Smart manufacturing incorporates technologies like automation, robotics, sensors,…

Internet of Things (IoT) and Manufacturing: Sensor Technology will be the Enabler of IoT in Manufacturing

By Dick Weisinger

The IoT market is big and growing rapidly.  A report from Credence Research estimates that the global IoT market was worth $690 billion in 2015 and that it will grow each of the next seven years by an average of…

Software Development: IoT, Machine Learning and Cloud are Hot Technologies Now for App Developers

By Dick Weisinger

What are app developers focused on today?  A global survey of developers from Evans Data asked just that question. Not too unexpectedly, the survey found that the following technology areas were hot: Machine Learning (24.7 percent) Internet of Things (45…

3D Printing: Power Users of Technology Drive Applications and Innovations

By Dick Weisinger

Between 2014 and 2015 businesses increased their spending on the professional use of 3D printing/additive manufacturing by 68 percent, according to a survey by Sculpteo.  77 percent said that they plan to continue to increase their use of and spending…

Containers: Great Idea, but Large-Scale Management of a Container Environment is Complex

By Dick Weisinger

Docker containers have become a popular way to streamline the environment that a self-contained application can run in.  (Docker currently has 94 percent of the container market.) Container technology is hot and it is being used increasingly by  enterprises to…