Industrial IoT: How Connected Things Are Changing Manufacturing

How should modern manufacturing look like? We all have seen movies or read books about the future where robots and machines run everything, including factories and plants. So, the question is: how soon will this fiction become reality, and will it ever fully?

It might be a little presumptuous to assume that we are already living in the futuristic era where the industry is self-conscious and doesn’t need any human involvement whatsoever. However, nowadays, manufacturing is changing rapidly and turning into “Industry 4.0”.

There are numerous technologies the usage of which turns manufacturing for the better, but one of the main drivers that stands out and pushes it significantly further is the Industrial Internet of Things.

The Industrial Internet of Things, or IIoT, is a subdomain of the Internet of Things. In this case, connected “things” that underpin the whole concept of IoT are implemented into the manufacturing process.