July 3, 2007

Manufacturers Embark On The X Internet Voyage

Modest Value Will Increase As Shop-Floor Data Meets Enterprise Applications

by Roy C. Wildeman

with Sharyn Leaver, Elisse Gaynor

Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

The manufacturing sector is experiencing some early success with X Internet technologies — including radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, sensors, and actuators — as the implementation barriers in industrial environments continue to come down. Process owners are seeing modest efficiency gains in their plant-level projects, particularly in the areas of industrial maintenance and internal mobile asset optimization. Value should grow, however, as these early adopters connect and exploit synergies between their shop-floor data and enterprise applications.

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