Industry 4.0.  Manufacturing 4.0.  IOT.  IIOT.  These buzzwords and trends can make it difficult for manufacturers to grasp the concept of "Industry 4.0," let alone, determine to adopt these cutting edge solutions.  We've laid it out in this how-to guide for...

Picking up from our last blog post, manufacturers stand to gain substantial benefits from deploying Industry 4.0 technologies.  These benefits include productivity gains, reduced labor costs (and possible personnel), as well as uncovering new revenue streams. 2....

Part 3 of our 4 part series outlines key recommendations on steps to take that can help manufacturers get started with Industry 4.0. 3. Workforce augmentation Collaborative robots, or “cobots,” aren’t here to replace human workers, but to work side-by-side with...

Feeling the need to modernize your manufacturing operations?  The fourth step to consider in embracing Industry 4.0 opportunities is to capture interest and knowledge about your highly variable products or systems once, and then share with customers and selling...

Adopting an ERP solution—and deploying it in the cloud—was once considered a complex, expensive process meant only for large enterprises. Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) sometimes hesitated to make the leap to the cloud, worried about security, back-ups,...

While single-tenant (ST) solutions can provide marginally improved levels of control and customization, many modern businesses— especially those in the SMB space—find that the costs of monitoring, servicing, and deploying ST solutions tend to greatly outweigh the...