Smart Heavy Metal: Retrofitting IoT in Brownfield Industrial Sites

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Smart Heavy Metal: Retrofitting IoT in Brownfield Industrial Sites
Understand What You’re After
Use What’s Already There, but Take Care
You Can Observe a Lot Just by Watching
The Machine Equivalent of Wearables
Internet of Things Industrial Applications – Understand Your Options

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Industrial enterprises know they can see significant benefits from the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).
While some may dream of ripping out all of their old equipment and replacing it with completely new IoT-capable machinery, it simply doesn’t make economic sense to dispose of well-functioning capital equipment before the end of its useful life.
If you work for one of these enterprises, you’re probably already looking at retrofit solutions, which update existing equipment with IoT capabilities.
The essential first step, before making any specific decisions, is to understand the business outcomes or customer needs an IIoT upgrade will help satisfy.
You may be looking to extend the useful life of your equipment, to avoid unplanned outages, to streamline operations and to increase efficiency; deciding your focus determines a lot of your subsequent decisions.
Don’t keep your thinking within the limits of your current connectivity, but understand it so you know what can be usefully upgraded or reused.
The desire to get data from equipment is certainly not new.
But these systems and their sensors are meant to operate in a local, closed-loop environment, for minute-by-minute sensing and control.
Introducing IIoT expands the types of things sensed, the area over which they can be sensed and the time horizon, by making possible the integration of data over time to show performance.
Any manufacturing facility could have a variety of different M2M networks, acquired or developed at different times, for a variety of purposes, alongside purely manually operated equipment and standalone computer numerical control (CNC) systems controlling such things as drills and lathes.
If existing sensor networks just don’t do what’s needed, relatively simple sensors can provide a wealth of information.
Sometimes, instead of modifying existing sensing and control equipment or adding new sensors, you can create a parallel channel for existing data displays

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