In this video, Paul and I discuss how to get compression right for your PI System and how their software gives you tools to be able to do so.

In this conversation, Paul Sheremeto of Pattern Discovery talks with me about why getting good, quality data into the PI System is important and how his comp...

In this video, we take sampled data from PI Datalink and slice it with Tableau and Power BI. We also discuss the concept of combining data sets for investiga...

So, you are looking to add time-series data from one of your facilities to your data lake to start doing "Big Data Analytics" on the data, huh? Well, do you ...

I am sorry I am a week late in writing this, but I had a little distraction in a wind and rain storm called Irma. She decided to knock power out for me for a...

A recent conversation with John Murphy, the former chief mechanical officer at CSX Railroad has actually made me significantly re-think the content of this b...

I saw a statistic the other day that blew my mind, It came from a study on IIoT use cases (well worth the read) put on by LNS Research and I will paste the g...

I recently read an LNS research article entitled "Why OEE and Plant Visualization Projects Keep Failing" and it made me to think about what are the ingredien...

Last week, my wife Kristina and I visited the Saint Augustine lighthouse and it was an enjoyable visit to a landmark we have taken 3 years of living here to ...

I just read an article from Craig Resnick from ARC Advisory group titled "Add IIoT to Legacy Automation Assets to Reduce Unscheduled Downtime." In the articl...

The IIoT architecture of the future will stratify. It won't just be cloud or on-prem.

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This blog originally posted on Jim Gavigan's LinkedIn page here. I have been working in industrial automation for 20 years now and I have seen a lot of chang...

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This blog originally posted on Jim Gavigan's LinkedIn page here. I recently read an ISA article on the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and this is the l...

This blog originally posted on Jim Gavigan's LinkedIn page here. I recently read an ISA article on the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and this is the t...

This blog originally posted on Jim Gavigan's LinkedIn page here. I recently read an ISA article on the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and this is the s...

This blog originally posted on Jim Gavigan's LinkedIn page here. I recently read an ISA article on the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and this is the b...

This blog originally posted on Jim Gavigan's LinkedIn page here. Whenever I go out of town and am hungry (or frankly, even when I am in town and hungry), I s...