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Achieving high efficiency, quality, and sustainability of products and services is key to staying relevant in the era of digital transformation. In a move to optimize resources and upscale profitability, manufacturers across the globe have started adopting Industry 4.0 and IIoT solutions.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n While these solutions play a pivotal role in reducing manufacturing downtime and improving human-machine collaboration, they lack real-time communication between Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) across remote locations. The lack of remote communication confines the capabilities of digital transformation to the factory.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Cloud service providers bridge this gap and enable industries to develop full-fledged digital and connected industrial ecosystems. In this blog, we explore how Microsoft Azure empowers the industrial internet of things at minimal cost, time, and effort.<\/span><\/p>\n Over 54% of US manufacturers claim that they<\/span> lack a unified view of their plant and building information. 40% of manufacturing industry profits are lost due to unplanned downtime in manufacturing units and an <\/span>average $1B revenue is lost each year by manufacturing companies.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Technology advancement or digital transformation is key to improving <\/span>ROI and production capabilities in the manufacturing sector.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n A typical industrial plant or factory consists of many heterogeneous components, machines, and devices such as legacy devices, PLCs, valves & actuators, conveyor belts, and other machinery. Industries like oil & gas, manufacturing plants consist of huge mechanical parts like drilling machines, pipelines, robotic arms, packaging machine setups, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n The two key challenges to digital transformation are:<\/span><\/p>\n The lack of connectivity and visibility spells disaster for manufacturing companies, due to delays in identifying machine failure and increased downtime.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) enables machines and devices to be connected, and allows legacy devices to be monitored using state-of-the-art sensors and transducers in the market. IIoT enhances human-machine collaboration through HMI (Human Machine Interface).\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n HMIs upscale efficiency dramatically through improved monitoring of manufacturing units and industrial processes. IIoT also enables predictive maintenance, which means that machine failure can be identified ahead of time through sensor data monitoring. Predictive maintenance boosts productivity and reduces maintenance costs associated with application downtime.<\/span><\/p>\nThe need for digital transformation in manufacturing:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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Digital transformation to the rescue: Adopting digitization with Industrial Internet of Things<\/b><\/h4>\n
The transformative power of cloud computing in IIoT:<\/b><\/h4>\n