Re-keying Orders Impacts Customer Relationships

How manual re-keying of orders impacts customer relationshipsWho has time for the manual re-keying of orders with economical overnight shipping that has nearly eliminated the home court advantage in the digital print market? A vendor across the continent can deliver a finished order as fast as a vendor across the street. Order processing speed is crucial — and so is …

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The Difference Between Big Data and IoT

Why are they Different? Big Data and IoT (the Internet of Things) may at first glance appear to be very similar. After all, both collect lots of data and analyze it to extract information. Therefore we might think that techniques and architectures developed for Big Data can be successfully applied to IoT. Unfortunately we would be wrong. Why are they …

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The Information Value Chain Revisited for IoT

  Why do IoT Architects need to think about value, not just data? Several years ago I was pitching what would now be called an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solution to the Production Manager of a large manufacturing plant. After describing all the data we could collect, and the metrics we could turn it into, I thought I had …

The 5D Architecture – A Standard Architecture for IoT

Why Propose 5D Architecture As A Standard For IoT?Building a system to get value from the Internet of Things (IoT) or Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is a complex process involving a number of very distinct components. We need an Architecture for IoT to define the components which are necessary and sufficient for the system  to deliver value. As I have laid out in earlier …

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Data Engineering – Only Some Data Matters

There is a critical difference between classical statistical analysis and Internet-of-Things (IoT) analytics: In classical statistics, most data matter. In the Internet-of-Things, most of them don’t. Why do I care? Because if this is true, then the conventional approach of putting raw data into historians and “data lakes” in the hope of being able to use statistics to make sense of it …

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The Digital Twin: key component of IoT

What is a Digital Twin and why do I care? A Digital Twin uses data from sensors installed on physical systems to represent their near real-time status, working condition or position. This modelling technology allows us to see what is happening inside the system without having to be able to get inside the system. It forms a critical step in …

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Press Release: Fraysen Systems completes case study with Pageflex Storefront for the Slate Group

Media Contact: Fraysen Systems Anthony Edwards, President Fraysen Systems (919) 929-6568 anthony.edwards@fraysen.com Pageflex, Inc. Susan Barry – Marketing Communications Manager sbarry@pageflex.com   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Fraysen Systems completes case study with Pageflex Storefront for the Slate Group OrderPlus, Fraysen Systems’ solution designed to streamline order and production data, allows orders from Pageflex to flow straight to production systems with minimal …