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...

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

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 dat...

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...

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 pow...

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

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 an...

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

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 year...

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

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...

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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 (IIo...

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

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

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

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 t...