Fault Tolerance

Smart manufacturing encapsulates the use of sensors and entire systems that have become more intelligent, with increased networking and vast amounts of available data. Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Industry 4.0, and digital transformation are a few of the principal trends describing the ubiquity of devices and the increased connectivity to those data sources in the manufacturing environment. Add in advanced analytics and manufacturers can capture crucial insights that inform users on how to improve operational efficiency and reliability.

With the advent of digital transformation projects and digitalization efforts, we’ve seen the rise of the use of Edge Computing platforms in automation and control because of two key capabilities: workload consolidation and operational resilience. How does Edge Computing empower your staff to get better results? Find out.

Edge Computing platforms enable easy scalability, allowing you to start with a small HMI/SCADA solution (single node) and add more (multiple nodes in multiple locations) as your needs grow. Which one is right for you? Read this blog and find out.

Traditional HMI/SCADA architectures have been in existence for many years and have provided users with the capability to operate plants and facilities since the advent of modern automation and control. Let’s look at how to leverage Edge Computing platforms to rapidly modernize HMI/SCADA solutions and maximize reliability.

Digital transformation in oil and gas remains paramount in managing mission-critical operations, gaining valuable business insights, improving worker safety, reducing costs, and more. This is especially true for offshore oil and gas production, presenting a unique set of circumstances.

This year, for the first time in three years, we were able to hold a real event inviting our partners to the venue. Personally, I feel that it has become a daily occurrence for people to gather face-to-face and work in a real environment, both in business and private, such as participating in sporting events as athletes.
For the first time in three years, Stratus Japan was able to host and invite our partners to an in-person event. It’s great for us to be able to gather face-to-face and work together in a real environment as opposed to a virtual event – both for business and work as well as in private.

The use of artificial intelligence is actively being used as one of the ways to solve the problems faced by the manufacturing industry. In this article, we have given an overview of the major issues faced by the manufacturing industry, such as changes in the market environment and a shortage of human resources, and have comprehensively explained the use of artificial intelligence to solve these issues.

The yen has depreciated for the first time in 24 years, but when the yen depreciated last time in 1998, I was assigned to the United States. When the yen depreciated in 1998, the transfer amount was about 3/4 of the amount when I was assigned to the United States. There is debate as to whether the depreciation of the yen is good or bad. The demerit of the depreciation of the yen is the burden on households, but it also has a significant impact on business-to-business transactions. The corporate goods price index in April this year grew by about 10.0% year-on-year.

In the third article in our new virtualization series, we take a closer look at how virtualization helps companies achieve high application availability — as high as 99.999 percent — critical in an always-on world.

London-based chemical company Synthomer maximized profits and streamlined operations with a distributed control system and Stratus ftServer®.