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Lightning storms, fires, and overloaded electrical grids often result in power outages . Such unanticipated blackouts can pose a serious threat to building occupants and property. According to the United States Fire Administration (USFA) , from 2014 to 2016, an estimated 100,300 nonresidential building fires were reported each year which caused an average of 90 deaths; 1,350 injuries; and $2.4 billion in property losses per year (US only data). As such, governments across the globe mandate safety regulations that require the installation of emergency lighting and smoke extraction systems in all public buildings and facilities. These systems are often placed along corridors, indicating a clear pathway for evacuation, at stairwells and at exit points. These safety systems, when properly functioning, save lives and minimize panic and chaos when facilities need to be quickly evacuated. Whenever any new public facility (shop, store, factory, warehouse, etc.) is built, government-sanction...

In my first post I spoke about the importance of building a business case when implementing the IIoT and how you should think of the IIoT as extending investments, not necessarily replacing them. In that post I covered three use cases – shadow sensing, expanding to semi-automated areas of operations, and connecting distributed systems. You will notice that those are largely new areas of exploration. These haven’t been tried before in many cases, but offer great benefits and are changing the way manufacturing operates. But IIoT isn’t just offering new possibilities – it’s also changing the way we look at and implement traditional systems. This blog post will cover two ways IIoT and cloud are revolutionizing the traditional ways we do business. Large assets are what matter Old School: Traditionally, the most mission-critical assets were the ones prioritized for more complex forms of maintenance, things like condition-based or predictive analytics. This was because connecting/instr...

This is the second blog in a four-part series on digital transformation in the chemical industry, check out the first blog “Chemical Companies Deliver Outstanding Customer Experiences Through Digital Transformation”  here.  Stay tuned next week for part three – Augmented Reality in chemical manufacturing. Chemical manufacturing is an increasingly competitive industry with margins shrinking every day. Chemical manufacturers  have two main strategic priorities. First, drive new value into their enterprise. Second, discover opportunities to recover lost value in current operations by reducing waste and unscheduled downtime. As a result, we’re seeing a significant uptake in digital transformation in chemical industry. With the adoption of the IIoT , chemical manufacturers of all sizes are rapidly identifying new ways to bridge the OT/IT gap to support enterprise wide initiatives such as improved safety, cost reduction, streamlined regulatory compliance and nimble product li...