Jim GaviganFeb 28, 20201 minGetting Data Compression Right With Paul SheremetoIn 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...
Jim GaviganFeb 21, 20201 minWhy Data Quality is Important - with Paul Sheremeto, Part 1 In this conversation, Paul Sheremeto of Pattern Discovery talks with me about why getting good, quality data into the PI System is...
Jim GaviganMar 27, 20191 minPI Data Extraction Part 2 - Slicing Data with BI ToolsIn this video, we take sampled data from PI Datalink and slice it with Tableau and Power BI. We also discuss the concept of combining...
Jim GaviganNov 16, 20176 minData Quality - The Elephant In The RoomSo, 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...
Jim GaviganSep 20, 20173 minDigital Twin: Hype or Substance? Part III 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...
Jim GaviganAug 23, 20175 minDigital Twin: Hype or Substance?A recent conversation with John Murphy, the former chief mechanical officer at CSX Railroad has actually made me significantly re-think...
Jim GaviganJul 10, 20173 minWhy is IIoT Adoption so slow?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...
Jim GaviganJun 20, 20174 minWhy Many IIoT Projects FailI recently read an LNS research article entitled "Why OEE and Plant Visualization Projects Keep Failing" and it made me to think about...
Jim GaviganMay 23, 20175 minAre You "Toting The Oil" Up The Stairs?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...
Jim GaviganMay 18, 20176 minHow Do I Use IIoT Technology If I Have Legacy Control Systems?I just read an article from Craig Resnick from ARC Advisory group titled "Add IIoT to Legacy Automation Assets to Reduce Unscheduled...
Jim GaviganMar 31, 20173 minWhat is the IIoT architecture of the future?The IIoT architecture of the future will stratify. It won't just be cloud or on-prem.
Jim GaviganJan 12, 20164 minCan Data Flow Be a Resource Just Like Water and Electricity?This blog originally posted on Jim Gavigan's LinkedIn page here. When was the last time that you plugged in a device to an electrical...
Jim GaviganDec 2, 20156 minHow tribal knowledge can get in the way of data driven decision makingThis blog originally posted on Jim Gavigan's LinkedIn page here. Wikipedia defines tribal knowledge as: "Tribal knowledge is any...
Jim GaviganNov 4, 20154 minManufacturing Intelligence and the Skills GapThis blog originally posted on Jim Gavigan's LinkedIn page here. I have been working in industrial automation for 20 years now and I have...
Jim GaviganOct 12, 20153 minManufacturing Data is an Asset, Please Treat It That Way!This blog originally posted on Jim Gavigan's LinkedIn page here. asset[as-et] noun a useful and desirable thing or quality:...
Jim GaviganOct 1, 20154 minIIoT - How Cloud is Changing the Landscape - Part 2This blog originally posted on Jim Gavigan's LinkedIn page here. I recently read an ISA article on the Industrial Internet of Things...
Jim GaviganSep 21, 20153 minIIoT - How Cloud is Changing the Landscape - Part 1This blog originally posted on Jim Gavigan's LinkedIn page here. I recently read an ISA article on the Industrial Internet of Things...
Jim GaviganSep 9, 20155 minIIoT - How and Where Do I Standardize?This blog originally posted on Jim Gavigan's LinkedIn page here. I recently read an ISA article on the Industrial Internet of Things...
Jim GaviganSep 2, 20154 minFour Components to An Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) StrategyThis blog originally posted on Jim Gavigan's LinkedIn page here. I recently read an ISA article on the Industrial Internet of Things...
Jim GaviganAug 26, 20153 minWhy can't manufacturing intelligence systems be more like Yelp?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...