Cloud Computing for Manufacturers and Internet of Things

Cloud computing for manufacturers has already proven itself as a critical tool for financial processes and other front office functions like sales, marketing and customer service.  The next evolution will be streamlining plant operations. As robots on the shop floor become increasingly ‘smart’ the internet of things will move toward real time analysis into production performance using data that the machines themselves will produce. And cloud computing is what will make it all possible, according to David Linthicum at InfoWorld.com.

“This is perhaps the most interesting aspect of cloud computing,” said Linthicum.   “Our ability to connect pretty much anything lets us operate devices that have much more intelligence than machines from just a few years ago. These devices operate more effectively and can even self-repair. You’ll thank the use of the cloud for that.”

Linthicum predicts that new ‘special-purpose clouds’ will emerge to zero-in on connecting devices to machines so that data is gathered more quickly streaming off of devices with little structure.  These devices will be able to run real time analysis of data coming from machines.

This comes as no surprise really as the basic and constant trend in the world of technology development is smaller, faster devices and more data.  Cloud computing for manufacturing is facilitating this constant trend on the shop floor.

In a recent interview at NorthBridge.com, Charles Fan, senior vice president and Chairman, China COE at EMC, discussed ‘data physics’ in similar terms.

“We are observing significant changes coming to ‘data’, not only because of the new apps and the transformation of old apps, but also because of sensors and other generators of data,” Fan said. “The data is not only ‘bigger’ and ‘faster’, but also there are more varieties of data.”

These different kinds of data produce new data sets in the form physical properties like mass, velocity, temperature and half-life, according Fan.  As new forms of data help to create new physical models, analytics are improving and becoming easier to interpret and operationalize.

Working with new analytics and new data produces, cloud computing for manufacturers is revolutionize efficiency across locations and departments for manufacturers.  It seams manufacturing operations have only scratched the surface of cloud computing’s real value.

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