Plan to attend The IIC 2018 Conferences to gain deeper insights into new manufacturing technologies and ideas!
About the topic
There is still a lot of confusion and mystery around the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT).With all the hype around IoT and Industry 4.0, what does that really mean to a manufacturer? There has been an explosion of IIoT providers and devices from small startups up to large automation providers. Let's cut through the hype and buzzwords to get to the real answers.
We will address questions including:
- What is IIoT?
- What is the difference between IIoT and IoT?
- How does IIoT fit in with Industry 4.0?
- Why should I implement an IIoT solution?
- How will this make my processes better?
- What is the ROI? Where do I start?
- What technology is right for me?
We will decipher the lingo and look at IIoT and Industry 4.0 to help demystify the technology and look for practical, money-saving solutions.
Registration is now open, so check out the IMTS 2018 website for more information.
Meet your presenter
Russ Agrusa is the Founder, President and CEO of ICONICS Inc., a world-leading software developer of open-connectivity and standards-based visualization software, HMI/SCADA, and MES solutions for energy, manufacturing, industrial, and building automation. With more than 350,000 installations worldwide, ICONICS counts 70% of Global 500 companies as its customers. Agrusa has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo and an M.S. in Computer Science from Boston University. His career began in Pittsburgh, PA, at Westinghouse Electric Corporation, where he developed real-time software for fossil and nuclear power plants. He later joined the Foxboro Company in Massachusetts, leading human machine interface (HMI) product development for the Foxboro Intelligent Architecture series distributed control system, before starting ICONICS in 1986. Wanting to take advantage of the emerging PC-based automation market, and to create off-the-shelf HMI and SCADA software for factory automation, Agrusa recognized that OPC was central to the future of automation and led ICONICS to produce the first commercially available HMI/SCADA, "OPC-to-the-Core"-based product. ICONICS has greatly contributed to the success of the OPC Foundation, with Agrusa himself serving as a member of the foundation’s Board of Directors, as well as its marketing chairman.