The Blockchain for the Internet of Things

Jason Mann & Michelle Null from SAS Institute give an overview and show walkthrough of the 2018 SAS Global forum with customers and partners.

GE Transport's Adebayo Onigbanjo, Senior Director for Global Transport, shares a view of comprehensive solutions overview for fleet management and maintenance.

The advent of connected devices and platforms are driving the digitization of manufacturing. Although systems and production facilities have long been automated and connected, today’s Smart Factory is adept, can learn from data and adjust in real time. The industry has evolved by bringing together the physical and digital world, creating torrents of data. In order to unlock the full potential, you’ll need architectures, frameworks and implementation plans. This webinar will give you an overview of available tools and guidance on getting started.

As connected devices become ubiquitous, a need arises for those devices to move and interact seamlessly among different domains in a trusted manner.

Blockchains may provide foundations for systems that require coordination where trust and authority are not centralized. This presentation will provide an overview of blockchain technology and suggest potential applications in the field of distributed, connected devices in industrial environment.

A Practical Guide to the Industrial Internet Connectivity Framework:

The IIC’s Industrial Internet Connectivity Framework (IICF) evaluates the most commonly-used standards: OPC UA, DDS, OneM2M, HTTP, MQTT, and CoAP. It also proposes an architecture for integrating them into a true Internet. However, with 130 pages it can be dense reading. This session will provide a simple set of questions to help you get off to the right start for your IIoT application.

Interoperability at all levels of the IIoT stack is key for the success of industrial IoT projects that require both OT and IT systems to work together. Interoperability, like security, cannot be an afterthought, it needs to be architected in the IIoT solution from the start.

In the webinar we will address key concepts of Interoperability from the device level to the business process application.

Learn about IIC’s Smart Manufacturing testbed using machine learning for predictive maintenance to minimize unplanned down-times, optimize high volume manufacturing and increase productivity.

Learn how IIC members are addressing challenges of Secure Networking with wire-speed cryptography and sub-microsecond synchronization, including HSR/PRP and TSN in Smart Grid Applications production down-times and increase factory productivity.

The Internet of Things is changing the world, and members of the Industrial Internet Consortium are leading the charge. Join us for our Virtual Summit on World IoT Day, and hear from IIC members dedicated to the tasks of delivering a trustworthy Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) in which the world’s systems and devices are securely connected and controlled to deliver transformational outcomes.

Richard Soley launches our USA leg of the event with an overview of What's new in the Industrial Internet Consortium, IIC testbed insights and IIC member value.

A practical way to get started with IIoT in a brownfield factory is by creating a “Green Patch in your Brownfield.”

Everyone is talking about deploying IIoT in brownfields to achieve incremental gains in productivity. But in the greenfield, IIoT can deliver a game changer: to change your business model to mass customization through adaptive machines. Batch size of one. Deliver direct from the production line to consumers. Flatten your supply chain, your sales chain. No greenfield in your near future? To get started, get focused. For your next capex, put a 'focused factory' in your existing plant -- a 'green patch' in your brownfield. Learn from a pilot project the full potential of IIoT with today's state of the art automation technologies, not the legacy assets of the brownfield.

IoT is turning mining into a safer and more productive industry. The technology involves connecting machines, fleet and people with sensor technologies that transfers and receive data over a network.

The Mining Task Group of the Industrial Internet Consortium is hosting a series of educational webinars on the challenges and opportunities provided by the Industrial Internet. This is the first webinar of the IIC Mining Series.

The Industrial Internet Business Strategy & Innovation Framework

The competitive landscape is changing in ways which have yet to become completely clear. Collaboration and mastery of new skills, such as those within IIoT, will be essential to business success. An organized, disciplined approach to moving forward with IIoT is essential to that success. The Business Strategy and Innovation framework offers this approach with guidance and best practices derived from industry experts within the Industrial Internet Consortium membership.

The notion of a Smart Factory today is based on utilizing modern Industrial IoT concepts. While it is not practical for existing brown fields to immediately modernize and adopt all these technologies and best practices, it is however possible for factories to cherry pick individual technologies and practices as a path to gradually modernize over time. These include technologies and best practices that allow for seamless machine interoperability, easy data sharing between machines, MES, ERP, and SCADA systems.


This webinar will provide an overview of some of these technologies and will also discuss the new industry standards that make such a migration possible. We’ll also share a proof of concept, the IIC Smart Factory Web Testbed, which is a network of smart factories with flexible adaptation of production capabilities and sharing of resources and assets to improve order fulfillment.


Featured IIC Testbed: Smart Factory Web
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The Smart Factory Web forms a network of smart factories with flexible adaptation of production capabilities and sharing of resources and assets to improve order fulfillment. Key challenges being addressed: How can we connect factories to the Smart Factory Web and exchange data reliably? How can we provide the information securely at the right granularity to authorized partners? How can production capabilities be adapted quickly and efficiently in response to orders?


Featured Speakers:
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Sari Germanos, IIC Safety Task Group Chair; Business Development Manager, B&R Industrial Automation


Dr. Kym Watson, IIC Testbed Lead, Smart Factory Web; Deputy Head, Information Management and Process Control Department, Fraunhofer IOSB

As the number of devices connected via the Internet of Things grows at exponential rates, the communications infrastructure has to grow with it. Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) is the evolution of standard Ethernet that will make critical data available when and where it needed. TSN is suitable for automation applications in industrial environments like manufacturing, distributed control and measurement, and electrical power grids. This paves the way for the Industry 4.0 in modern heterogeneous industrial networks and shifts us into the fast lane toward realizing an Industrial Internet of Things.

With the emergence of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) many are trying to understand how their organization can step up to the new world of connected things that can cause harm, lead to safety issues, and could serve for decades. Join this session as we explore the driving concepts behind creating a safe, secure, and reliable IIoT system and look at how OMG standards play their role in the new IIoT marketplace and IIoT ecosystems as we evolve our IT & OT cultures into the IIoT culture. Topics discussed include:
* Safe, Reliable, and Secure - how to tell?
* Sourcing and integrating trustworthy components
* Standards and evidence-based value chains in IIoT ecosystems

Introduced in 2004, the Data Distribution Service has developed into a mature and proven connectivity standard within the IIoT. Today, DDS is at the heart of a large number of mission- and business-critical systems such as, Air Traffic Control and Management, Train Control Systems, Energy Production Systems, Medical Devices, Autonomous Vehicles, and Smart Cities. Considering the technological trends towards data-centricity and the rate of adoption, tomorrow, DDS will be at the heart of an incredible number of Industrial IoT (IIoT) systems.

To help you become an expert in DDS and expand your skills in the growing DDS market, Object Management Group is offering this DDS Technical Overview webinar series covering three key areas: (1) the essence of DDS and data-centric systems, (2) how to effectively exploit DDS Quality of Service to build applications that perform and scale, and (3) securing your distributed DDS system.

Part I of the OMG DDS Webinar Series will get you started with DDS. We will (1) cover in great details DDS’ key abstractions, (2) introduce the essence of DDS-based data-centric and modular architectures, and (3) clearly position DDS with respect to messaging technologies. After attending this webcast you will know the fundamentals required to start using DDS in your next project. Presented by Angelo Corsaro, Ph.D., CTO at ADLINK Technology and Co-Chair of the OMG's DDS Special Interest Group.

Part II: DDS QoS to Solve Real World Problems presented by Gerardo Pardo-Castellote, CTO of RTI and Co-Chair of OMG's DDS Special Interest Group is available here: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/12231/252387

Part III: Using DDS to Secure Data Communications presented by Nina Tucker, Vice President, Twin Oaks Computing is available here: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/12231/252391

Part of the Industrial Internet Consortium's Webinar Series on Securing the Industrial IoT, this session will feature Protecting Your Industrial Control System from Digital Threats.

Industrial Control Systems are everywhere. They’re running power grids, regulating data center energy use in large buildings, or managing production processes in at your favorite snack food manufacturer. What makes Industrial Control Systems so important, yet so difficult to secure? Learn about types of security challenges that operators of industrial control systems face and the tools available to help alleviate risk.

Industrial Internet Security in Action --
Interoperable IIoT Security Event Monitoring
(Inlcuding a preview of security interop demo at Hannover Messe)

With the rise of the Industrial Internet of Things and Industrie 4.0, manufacturers are adding more connected devices and sharing operation data with IT systems within their own factories and businesses, and they are extending information exchange across their entire value chain. This increased digitization offers a host of benefits to businesses, partners, suppliers and customers. But such connectivity must not itself put sensitive equipment at risk. Security is important within a single manufacturers’ plants, and across every participant in the value chain. Since there is no single, homogeneous security environment, multiple companies and systems that need to work together.

JOIN THE WEBINAR TO LEARN:
-How a strong Identity and Root-of-Trust forms the foundation of IoT Security

-How to securely connect systems from the operational domain (OT), to become more accessible to the information technology (IT) domain.

-How to implement end-to-end security from device to cloud

-How 24 IIC Members will demonstrate secure, interoperable IIoT event monitoring at Hannover Messe

Advanced analytics is at the core of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). When analytics are applied to machine and process data, they help optimize decision-making and enable intelligent operations. These new insights and intelligence can be applied across any level of any industry if the appropriate data can be collected and analytics are applied correctly. If data is the new oil, data analytics is the new engine that propels the IIoT transformation.

Featuring the editors of the Industrial Analytics Whitepaper:
Wael William Diab – Huawei Technologies
K. Eric Harper – ABB
Shi-Wan Lin – Thingswise, LLC
Will Sobel -- System Insights