As an engineer-manager in manufacturing you have been exposed to the concepts of Industry 4.0. You are now aware of the huge benefits that data from connected machines can bring for you and your customers. You have now decided to get started with an IoT project to see for yourself. All IoT solutions are basically […]

We understood how to predict an anomaly in a specific measurement parameter such as temperature in the last article by using control charting technique. The Regression Technique Another important technique to predict an outcome is the regression analysis. A regression analysis is used to predict the value of a dependent variable (say cutting tool life) on an […]

Last time I wrote that data collected from connected machines and stored can support predictive maintenance and add valuable inputs for you to improve your product design. However, it is good to have a basic understanding of how this works and one need not be a statistician to know the basic concepts. Today we will see […]

As companies start thinking about connecting their machines to other machines and larger systems (read IoT!) they are probably focusing more on almost real-time decision making and autonomous action. However, there is also a huge goldmine that lies in the data that gets captured and stored by them and that can help them to better […]

The unfortunate sacking of an employee in a well-known IT services company went viral in the social media last week and brought to the forefront some serious issues with regard to employment conditions, ethics and, more importantly, how one treats people. However, a deeper issue from the point of view of the IT employees and […]