To gain a better understanding of customers, technology needs to develop further, to ensure that data collected can be used to improve efficiency. The importance of interconnection between all aspects of a business, from machinery to personnel has never been so important. Please find below an article from Rockwell Automation's CEO Keith Nosbusch describing how the "Internet of Things" is to disrupt local manufacturers.
"Rockwell Automation Inc. (NYSE: ROK) imagines a world where manufacturing plants have every pump, pipe, tank and crane connected to the Internet.
These plants have already started to take root and will increasingly become the norm when the “Internet of Things” technology concept — which proposes having machines, people and objects constantly communicating via the Internet — becomes more prevalent, said Keith Nosbusch, Rockwell’s CEO.
Nosbusch spoke about how the “Internet of Things” has started to seep into the manufacturing field at Rockwell Automation’s Automation Fair in Houston Tuesday. The Milwaukee-based industrial automation, power, control and information solutions company hosted its annual fair at the George R. Brown Convention Center with the intention of discussing how automation technology is impacting Houston’s core industries — manufacturing and energy.
Manufacturing companies have historically embraced tracking and recording data from their machines. But Nosbusch told fair attendees that data has been and is still regularly “trapped” in these machines — meaning humans haven’t had access to the data to analyze it, report on it in real time or truly use it to improve operations. However, now that companies, including Rockwell, are creating software to connect automation technology directly to business professionals and software that can analyze this information, manufacturing operations will be able to dramatically improve their operational efficiency, energy use and even profitability"...
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Ryan M; "‘Internet of Things’ set to disrupt local manufacturers"; Bizjournals; November 2013.
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