Why Manufacturers’ IIoT Strategies Fail – and How Yours Can Succeed

Plenty of ink, digital and otherwise, has been devoted to the topic of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and the benefits it has in store for manufacturers who pursue it. For an alarmingly high number of companies, those benefits have failed to become reality. In fact, according to Cisco, only 26% of IIoT strategies […]
Manufacturing’s Top 6 Technology Challenges

During the last year, the Arraya team has had dozens of conversations with manufacturers representing a fairly diverse cross section of the industry. Very often, regardless of their focus, these companies have reported being plagued by similar sets of technology challenges. The frequency with which these issues come up inspired us to put together a […]
Connected Machines: 4 Ways Cisco Helps Boost OEE, Cut Downtime

Connected, intelligent machines are the future of manufacturing – and they’re also very rapidly becoming its present. Word is out and more companies are realizing the inherent value in linking machines not only to internal networks, but back to the companies that initially built those machines. Machine-builders have a unique insight into their product and […]
What it Takes to Bridge the IT/OT Divide and Succeed with IoT

The growing influence of the Internet of Things (IoT) has made for some strange bedfellows, especially in the manufacturing industry. In the old days, IT was in one corner, tending to the hardware, infrastructure and software applications used to manage data. Meanwhile, OT concerned itself with the devices and real time processes that occurred on […]