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Jim Gavigan

Mar 21, 2018
8 min

5 Lessons in Storytelling With Data

It has been a while since I have sat down to write. Honestly, it is a combination of things: busyness, writer's block to a certain extent, and also coming up with a catchy enough topic that I thought would resonate with people. Leave it to a book to inspire me, and the one that has inspired this post shares the title of this blog. Storytelling With Data is an excellent book written by an ex-Google People Analytics director, Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic. Before I get into some of t

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Jim Gavigan

Jan 17, 2018
4 min

The Power of BI tools

I have taken a little break from blogging with the holidays happening. I knew many of you were on vacation and trying to wrap up your year. I have appreciated all of you reading this blog in 2017 and look forward to writing more in 2018. One thing I have been spending a MAJOR amount of time with in the last 6 months is learning some of the Business Intelligence (BI) tools. I have focused on both Tableau and Microsoft's Power BI. I learned Tableau first, then I learned Power B

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Jim Gavigan

Nov 16, 2017
6 min

Data Quality - The Elephant In The Room

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 REALLY understand how good your data is in that unknown time-series world? I would be willing to bet that some or all of it isn't that useful to you. Sure, some of it will be fine, or so you think. However, that one key data stream may not be at the fidelity that you need to unlock any insights about something you really

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The Missing Ingredient In Digital Transformation - Company Culture

Jim Gavigan

Oct 19, 2017
3 min

The Missing Ingredient In Digital Transformation - Company Culture

I have written extensively on what it takes to be successful in the digital transformation/IIoT space, but one topic that I really haven't touched on is likely the most important for success, and that is company culture. What I am finding is that if I find a company or plant within a company that is data-driven hungry to optimize and get the very last drop of productivity out of their plant that they can, they are much more likely to succeed in this space. Those that are runn

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Digital Twin: Hype or Substance? Part II

Jim Gavigan

Sep 20, 2017
3 min

Digital Twin: Hype or Substance? Part II

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 almost 4 days, but I consider myself fortunate as so many lost everything. My heartfelt prayers are for those that sustained much more damage than I did and/or are who going through Maria's wrath right now. So, down to business. I have done some more thinking about the Digital Twin concept and have talked with numerous oth

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Jim Gavigan

Aug 23, 2017
5 min

Digital 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 the content of this blog, and this will be considered part I - where I state that digital twin technology is still "hype" and may never realize full value for some industries. However, John gave me reason to write part II about the substance of this topic and this topic may not just be hype for the industries I mention below. Many of you prob

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What is the IIoT architecture of the future?

Jim Gavigan

Mar 31, 2017
3 min

What is the IIoT architecture of the future?

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

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IIoT - How Cloud is Changing the Landscape - Part 2

Jim Gavigan

Oct 1, 2015
4 min

IIoT - How Cloud is Changing the Landscape - Part 2

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 last installment to a 4 part series of commentary on the article. Let me know what you’ve thought of the series. Regarding the cloud, the article states: "By adding cloud-based solutions, this existing information infrastructure could become the basis for securely sharing certain information with the asset vendors. Compan

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IIoT - How Cloud is Changing the Landscape - Part 1

Jim Gavigan

Sep 21, 2015
3 min

IIoT - How Cloud is Changing the Landscape - Part 1

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 third installment to a 4 part series of commentary on the article. There is a lot of great information in the article, and I am giving a "view from the ground" on several highlights from it. Regarding the cloud, the article states: "By adding cloud-based solutions, this existing information infrastructure could become the

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Four Components to An Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Strategy

Jim Gavigan

Sep 2, 2015
4 min

Four Components to An Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Strategy

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 beginning to a 4 part series of commentary on the article. There is a lot of great information in the article, and I would like to give a "view from the ground" on several highlights from it. Looking at the paragraph that addresses the four main parts of IIoT in this post, it states: "The four main parts of any IIoT system

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Why can't manufacturing intelligence systems be more like Yelp?

Jim Gavigan

Aug 26, 2015
3 min

Why 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 town and hungry), I search Yelp to find a good restaurant. If I want to find a reasonable priced Italian restaurant, within 5 miles, open now, and with good reviews the last 3 months, I can just put all of that in my search criteria in, do a little filtering, and Voila', I get choices, nearly instantaneously. If it is that easy to find a rest

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