Whether you call it the Internet of Things, Industry 4.0 or the Industrial Internet, the concepts and technologies that form its basis are rapidly changing manufacturing. This was the focus of the DEVCON 2015 conference, held June 11-12 in Evanston, IL and sponsored by GE and Industrial Network Systems, an efficiency solutions and analytics provider to companies like Nestlé and Anheuser-Busch.
“You have to interconnect your facility to get more value from it,” says George Barnych, director of research and development programs at the Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII). Barnych delivered the conference keynote address, “Applying Digital Manufacturing Technologies to Solve Business Problems.”