Four Key Elements of an IoT Strategy for Manufacturers

On the manufacturing plant floor, IoT is more of an evolution than a revolution. Plants have been highly instrumented for decades, with distributed control systems reading sensor data and controlling the machines, with SCADA systems layered on top providing plant-wide or multi-plant supervisory and control functions. IoT adds connectivity via the internet, bringing in massive scalability potential of cloud computing, but also creating many security threats not anticipated in the original design of underlying plant systems. Read Article