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As a technology enthusiast I love to try new things, whatever the latest new gadgets happens to be, and play around with them. And one of the amazing things about the current digital transformation is that things have become so inexpensive that they are accessible to almost anyone with the curiosity to check them out.  In fact, just last week I found a special deal on the web – a BOGO deal (Buy One Get One free) – for some remote web security cameras and they were really fun and easy to play with. But the really interesting thing to me is taking them and seeing what other ways they can be used, together or in combination with other existing technology, and trying to make them work together in new ways that haven’t been thought of before.  Of course, I’ve purchased a lot of useless things too.  They aren’t all a success!  But that’s a story for another blog. I’ve had some things running through my mind lately about this marriage of cool, new technology with many of...

Andrew Hughes joined the LNS Research team in May of 2015 and is a Principal Analyst with his primary focus being research and analysis in the Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) practice. Andrew has 30 years of experience in manufacturing IT, software research, sales and management across a broad spectrum of manufacturing industries. In our last blog on Smart Connected Operations , we looked at the trend of connecting new data sources, Smart Connected Devices (SCD), directly to the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). It is clear that SCDs are proliferating and will bring new information to manufacturing enterprises. That data is already finding uses in some of the low hanging fruit of the IIoT such as predictive maintenance. However, the promise of the IIoT goes far beyond a few data points gathered by new smart devices. Thinking Big Data Big Data Analytics is one of the key promises of IIOT and Smart Manufacturing; while we do not want to  go into depth about the dif...