The Industry of Things World San Diego event is a leading independent IoT conference entering it’s 5th year. This year’s key notes included presentations from National Oilwell Varco, Brose Group and Boeing. HMS Networks exhibited at the event this week with our Solution Partner Altizon to showcase our latest IoT collaboration. Check out our full summary of the event to see what other industry leaders are working on.

Documenting the true cost of production for any product is a key step in understanding profitability, but in facilities producing a high mix of product can be hard to associate costs with a specific production run. As a result, averaging is commonly used to associate electrical costs, machine costs and labor with a specific product. Moving from averaging to a more accurate cost analysis gives product management better insight into costs which allows for better pricing models and long term a better understanding of the business.

Wireless technologies are gaining acceptance in manufacturing as the need to increase capacity within a limited physical footprint drives the need for mobile robotic systems that can be flexibly deployed. Read this article to learn how 5G communications addresses many of the key challenges with this technology.

The Ignition Community Conference (ICC) by Inductive Automation is a 3 day get together that was hosted in Folsom California this year. Read through some of our takeaways and presentation topic...

In this article, Marcela Alzin from HMS Networks describes the results of her study of 50 international manufacturing professionals in spring 2019 about the positioning of wireless communication in their companies and to see how they are getting ready for the launch of 5G.

In this article HMS' power generator expert will review 3 different uses of generator power that many businesses rely on and how remotely monitoring their power generators can save valuable time, costs, assets and possibly even lives

It is vital that a Warehouse Manager follows these five best practices to ensure that the quality and efficiency of the warehouse remains high. Read through these best practices and learn some of the ways that the latest advancements in technology are improving a manager’s ability to act them out.