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The Best of Europe’s Web Went Dark Today. We Can’t Let That Be Our Future. We’re into the final days before members of the European Parliament vote on the Copyright and the Digital Single Market Directive, home of the censoring Article 13, and the anti-news Article 11. Europeans are still urging their MEPs to vote down these articles (if you haven’t already, call now , and stepping up the visibility of their complaints in this final week. Take Action Stop Article 13 The first salvo drawing attention to the damage the directive will cause has come from the European Wikipedias. German Wikipedia has gone completely dark for today, along with the Czech, Slovak and Danish Wikipedias , German OpenStreetMap, and many more . With confusing rhetoric, the Directive’s advocates have always claimed that they mean no harm to popular, user-driven sites like Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap. They’ve said that the law is aimed only at big American tech giants, even as drafters have scrambled to add...

Get down to business with the IIoT Still unsure where to start with digitalization? It seems you’re not the only one . While today’s out of the box technology solutions make it cheaper, easier, and quicker than ever to digitalize operations, research from McKinsey & Company shows a different reality for customers. On the one hand the cost of sensors is falling, which means there is more and more data available. But on the other hand, companies across industry are using less than 1% of data. So the question for us at Schneider Electric is, how to help customers access the other 99%, and use it to improve business performance? We recommend taking a business first approach. IIoT brings a new way of doing business and new areas of risk LNS research gives us a few clues about what might be holding some companies back. IIoT presents new ways of doing things, which require new approaches to safety and risk management. In a recent IHS Markit Survey (Nov 2018) a little more than 10% o...

In Europe, we have more than 2400 Field Services Representatives working at customer’ site every day, that means they face hundreds of different situations that could include dangerous procedures. That’s why, at Schneider Electric, Safety is our first priority, not only for our people in the field, but also for any of our workers and, of course, our customers. Lock Out Tag Out (L.O.T.O) To protect ourselves and perform work in an Electrical safe condition, we must fully understand and follow all the steps of the LOTO process; the seven steps of Lock Out Tag Out safety: Prepare Shut down the load Disconnect the sources of energy Lock Verify Ground Protect adjacent conductors Following all the steps is highly important; at the end of the job Schneider Electrics’ person in charge sign off that steps from 1 to 7 are completed. Then, the customer representative signs to confirm that all the steps have been followed. S.A.F.E. First We understand that achieving a safe environm...

More than 130 European businesses tell the European Parliament: Reject the #CopyrightDirective The EU’s Copyright Directive will be voted on in the week of March 25 (our sources suggest the vote will take place on March 27th, but that could change); the Directive has been controversial all along, but it took a turn for the catastrophic during the late stages of the negotiation , which yielded a final text that is alarming in its potential consequences for all internet activity in Europe and around the world . More than 5,000,000 Europeans have signed a petition against Article 13 of the Directive, and there has been outcry from eminent technical experts , the United Nations’ special rapporteur on free expression , and many other quarters. Now, a coalition of more than 130 EU businesses have entered the fray, led by file storage service NextCloud. Their letter to the European Parliament calls Article 13—which will lead to mass adoption of copyright filters for online services...