A Connected World

 
 
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HIGH PERFORMANCE:
Grow Profitably

Maximize uptime, even in harsh or critical environments.

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MOBILITY:
Manage Operations Anywhere

Mobilize your operations and your workforce. Any device. Anywhere.

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CLOUD COMPUTING:
Engage and Collaborate

Solve business problems together within cloud communities.

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INDUSTRIAL BIG DATA:
Actionable Information Across Operations

Make sense of the enormous amount of data throughout your operations and turn that data into actionable information.

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WORKFORCE ENABLEMENT:
Capture Tribal Knowledge

Leverage technology and eSOPs to capture and transfer knowledge between people, systems and sites.

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Food Safety: Industry Call to Arms
GE Intelligent Platforms recently had the opportunity to sponsor the Food Safety Summit in Baltimore, which enabled us to introduce the keynote speaker, Will Daniels, the Sr. VP of Operations and Organic Integrity of Earthbound Farms.  The keynote speech was…
 

Four Reasons to Pick PROFINET
There are many Industrial Ethernets to choose from – what features set PROFINET apart?  There are many, but for today let’s focus on these: Adoption, Speed, Diagnostics, and Ecosystem. Adoption – PROFINET has the largest installed base of any Industrial…
 

You Have Your Data. Now what?
Availability of data isn’t a problem anymore. Today’s problem is making sense of it all. It’s not necessarily just about the ability to store terabytes of data. That’s part of the challenge, but it’s only a small part of the challenge.…
 

Open Networks: What’s in it for You?
It takes a village to raise a… standard, at least, an open standard.  In the case of PROFINET, that village consists of like-minded companies that recognize the benefits of working together towards a common, open standard.  What’s in it for…
 

How to Turn Data into Actionable Knowledge
Real-time Operational Intelligence (RtOI) is all about taking data from different silos and transforming it into actionable information. It provides industry executives, plant-floor operators, engineers, and other key personnel with real-time information relevant to their role, enabling them to focus…
 

The Death of Plant IT
Last night, I finally got to meet one of the legends of automation blogging, Mr. Jim Pinto. For those of you who don’t know him, Jim started blogging before blogs existed; in fact before the Internet existed. In the 1980s,…