How to do a virtual conference right? Ask SAP! TechEd 2020 ran for 48 hours with barely a moment’s pause and attracted over 60 thousand non-SAP registrants. Ten parallel technical tracks allowed everyone to find the level of detail and expertise to suit them and gave access to board level executives, particularly CTO, Juergen Mueller, who gave both day’s keynotes and sat on at least one executive Q&A panel. The stage management and organization of the event is to be heartily applauded. The target audience of technical experts and development leaders of 440,000 SAP customers is somewhat beyond the scope of LNS Research, but there were many interesting announcements about improvement to the development environment and move to the cloud.
Read MoreSAP TechEd Virutal Conference - All About the Cloud
Posted by Andrew Hughes on Thu, Feb 04, 2021
Categories: Cloud, Industrial Transformation / Digital Transformation, Industry 4.0 / Smart Manufacturing
Survey Snippets #2: Two Best Practices in Leveraging a Common Data Model to Enable IT-OT Convergence
Posted by Vivek Murugesan on Mon, Jan 25, 2021
Manufacturing and IT leaders have been pursuing IT-OT convergence strategies for many years now. To reach that converged state, LNS Research sees establishing a common data model including both IT & OT data as an essential step. This common data model ensures that the data leaving the plant from multiple sources and of multiple types are accurate, trusted, and secure.
Read MoreCategories: Industrial Transformation / Digital Transformation, IT/OT
Rockwell Automation Fair at Home
Posted by Tom Comstock on Tue, Jan 19, 2021
LNS Research recently had the opportunity to listen in on Rockwell Automation’s first virtual Automation Fair. Rockwell Automation strove valiantly to replicate the massive Automation Fair virtually: they continued to have Perspective Keynotes, detailed product and technical sessions, hands-on training, a partner exhibit, and even a virtual tour of the Product and Technology showcase. Rockwell Automation is known for its partner and channel-based strategy and this event reconfirmed, yet again, how strong Rockwell Automation’s orientation to partners and channels really is.
Read MoreCategories: Cloud, Industrial Transformation / Digital Transformation, Industry 4.0 / Smart Manufacturing, Edge
AWS Moves Up the Stack
Posted by Joe Perino on Thu, Jan 14, 2021
AWS recently launched a new set of services called “AWS for Industrial” designed to make it easier for industrial customers to innovate, automate, and scale industrial workloads on AWS through purpose-built services, solutions, and the widest ecosystem of partners. AWS for Industrial features new and existing services and solutions built specifically for developers, engineers, and operators at industrial companies. AWS for Industrial claims to simplify the process for customers to build or deploy innovative Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), analytics, and edge solutions to achieve step-change improvements in operational efficiency, quality, and agility.
Read MoreCategories: Industrial Transformation / Digital Transformation, Asset Performance Management (APM), AWS, ISV
The Year Ahead: 2021 Predictions
Posted by Tom Comstock on Mon, Jan 11, 2021
Every year, LNS Research puts forth predictions around the key trends around the Industrial Transformation (IX) topics on which we focus our research. As the IX Readiness, IX Platform, and Quality specialist at LNS, I have the opportunity to make predictions across a range of topics. Luckily for you, I am only going to make five!
Read More2021 Predictions: APM 4.0 & More
Posted by Joe Perino on Tue, Jan 05, 2021
Every year, LNS Research puts forth predictions around the key trends in the Industrial Transformation (IX) topics where we focus our research. In the case of Asset Performance Management (APM 4.0), our 2020 forecast focused on Digital Twins, closing the APM 4.0 loop, the consolidation in the advanced analytics market, the battle for the OT Ecosystem, and the evolution of the OPA market.
Read MoreCategories: Industrial Transformation / Digital Transformation, Asset Performance Management (APM)
How'd We Do? Our 2020 APM 4.0 Predictions Reviewed
Posted by Joe Perino on Tue, Dec 22, 2020
Every year, LNS Research puts forth predictions around the key trends in the Industrial Transformation (IX) topics where we focus our research. In the case of Asset Performance Management (APM) 4.0, our 2020 forecast focused on Digital Twins, closing the APM 4.0 loop, the consolidation in the advanced analytics market, the battle for the OT Ecosystem, and the evolution of the OPA market. How did we do? Let’s do our self-evaluation to compare.
Read MoreCategories: IT/OT, Asset Performance Management (APM), predictions
Operational Excellence 4.0
Posted by Joe Perino on Thu, Dec 03, 2020
LNS has long focused on Operational Excellence (OE) as part of our Digital Transformation (DX) Framework, now Industrial Transformation (IX). In 2013 and 2014, we talked about Operational Excellence as a journey and stated that people, processes, and technology are the underpinnings of Operational Excellence initiatives.
Read MoreCategories: Operational Excellence, Industrial Transformation / Digital Transformation, Quality 4.0, Asset Performance Management (APM), Environment, Health and Safety (EHS)
AspenTech Raises the Ante Again
Posted by Joe Perino on Mon, Nov 23, 2020
AspenTech recently announced the general availability of the aspenONE® V12 software release, which embeds Artificial Intelligence (AI) across the portfolio and uses the Cloud to deliver enterprise-wide analytics and insights. The v12 release continues to support AspenTech's strategy of embedding AI and Machine Learning (ML) inside their products such that end-users can take advantage of these powerful tools without having to rely on data scientists or layer on external third-party analytics solutions.
Read MoreCategories: Operational Excellence, Industrial Transformation / Digital Transformation
GE Digital Keeps it Going with Even More to Come
Posted by Joe Perino on Wed, Nov 04, 2020
GE Digital recently announced a series of products and service enhancements across their Digital Plant Software Applications portfolio. In addition, they released enhancements and new functionality in their Operations Performance Management (OPM) suite for power generation and announced their Remote Operations solution for Power Generation. All of these announcements culminated in a well-attended 2020 Virtual User Conference in October 2020.
Read MoreCategories: Industrial Transformation / Digital Transformation, IT/OT, GE Digital