With all of the emerging technology transforming manufacturing, the Internet of Things, the great move to the cloud, big data, augmented reality, 3 D printing, virtual reality and more, another great movement at the core of a lot of these other transformative technologies is mobility.
The Rise of Mobility in Manufacturing
When it comes to mobility in manufacturing, the following insights can be learned from Pricewaterhouse Coopers 18th Global CEO Annual Survey:
- 81% of CEOs see mobile technologies as being strategically important for their enterprises.
- The top three technology priorities of industrial manufacturing CEOs are: 1. mobility (73%), 2. cybersecurity (72%) and 3. data mining and analysis (70%).
- Mobility Manufacturing – Mobility Adoption in Manufacturing Sector at Glance Infographics shows interesting statistics on the opportunities in mobility in manufacturing. For instance , on the productivity shows a benefit of $12,500 per user to the company, workflow efficiency increase by 38%
- Enhancing Remote HMI User Experience for casual users. This infographic covers the challenges for the modern industrial worker for expanding HMI/SCADA access for real-time decisions and a possible solution.
Create Solutions for Mobile Visualization
The industrial automation market has progressed to the point that there are multiple vendors now that provide mobile access to their applications. Schneider Electric Software, for example, has 7 different applications that use some factor of mobility and the strategy for mobility is to provide visualization, collaboration and execution at all levels of the organization. A powerful mobile capability, InTouch Access Anywhere, enables users to access plant floor screens, in an affordable, secure and productive way using any browser from anywhere and at anytime. Wonderware® InTouch Access Anywhere is an extension to Wonderware InTouch. It provides access to InTouch applications via any HTML5-compliant web browser, and it completes our vision of enabling visualization, collaboration and execution at various levels of the organization, with zero client installation and zero maintenance. It enables users to securely monitor or troubleshoot plant equipment or process from any location, on any device, at any time.
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