It is no secret that applications and machines are increasingly becoming more interconnected, enabling the exchange of business-critical data.

Madhu Mathiyalagan, Principal Product Manager at Stratus Technologies, talks about important issues facing women in the workplace, growing up in India, and what it’s like to be a woman in the engineering field.

2018 was a year of recognizing the need for digital transformation and planning what the impacts might be. 2019 will be a year of implementation, but do IT teams feel ready to execute these new strategies? Do they have the budget, support and assets? A new survey by TEKsystems provides some insight.

The convergence of IT and OT in the industrial world has been a topic of discussion for years. With the increasing need to drive business efficiency through the adoption of new technologies and concepts such as the Industrial Internet of Things and the cloud, bringing previously disparate IT and OT together is a necessity. It’s also a challenge.

The Industrial Internet of Things kicked off the smart manufacturing revolution, but there is still much more to be accomplished. By embracing digital transformation, organizations can reap the benefits of the intelligent edge.

We’ve put together a list of the best conferences for industrial automation professionals. We’ve got IIoT, Manufacturing, Monitoring, Edge Computing and more, all around the world.

The other day, I had the opportunity to listen to Mr. Nakanishi, Chairman of Nippon Keidanren at the Foreign Correspondents’ Association 20 About a minute Society 5.0. It was a place to talk about it and hold a question-and-answer session. The first thing that impressed me was Mr. Nakanishi’s ability to respond in English rather than the content.

By embracing the promise of automated tech, organizations of all sizes are poised to make good on their promises of digital transformation. But, to realize the possibilities of the connected, autonomous future, automation pioneers must follow a new set of best practices to achieve meaningful results.