Usually, trouble with wireless devices and networks comes down to the efficiency of radio transmissions, not speed. Fortunately, products that implement Wi-Fi 6, the IEEE’s 802.11ax wireless networking standard, are well positioned to alleviate the performance problems that plague manufacturers. Most of the benefits of Wi-Fi 6 can be explained through three simple abbreviations. At first glance, these may seem like alphabet soup, but the features they represent offer significant improvements to organizations that deploy Wi-Fi 6.

Any manufacturer with a complex production line understands the importance of having a connected factory. By deploying machines that can communicate and share data with a central system, a manufacturer can adapt to operational needs in real time to drive efficiencies and improve the bottom line. But connected factories also face challenges that can hamper success if left unaddressed.

Manufacturers can use the Internet of Things as the foundation for digital transformation efforts that maximize efficiency, productivity and customer satisfaction. But as they explore these efforts, many manufacturers run into two common hurdles: applying IoT to legacy manufacturing equipment and making sense of all the data flooding in. The good news is both hurdles…

Unplanned downtime is a crisis for manufacturers. It’s bad enough that productivity comes to a screeching halt, but when a company can’t meet its commitments to customers due to downtime, it erodes the trust those customer have in that company. IIoT World reports that 82 percent of companies have experienced unplanned downtime in the past…

Once upon a time — and not all that long ago — the data center was the only place for IT workloads to run. If an organization needed to process large amounts of data, that’s where it happened. But the emergence of the cloud, coupled with the rise of digital transformation and the Internet of…

Nearly every customer we talk to is interested in the potential benefits of digital transformation. Solutions that take advantage of the Internet of Things and advanced data analytics offer unprecedented opportunities for organizations in just about every industry. Among the most fascinating aspects of digital transformation are the capabilities that can be achieved when we…