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Blog posts November 2016

  A big buzzword right now is the internet of things (IoT). Is it really useful? Recently I had the opportunity to participate in an IoT class and lab sponsored by Intel and Microsoft. I was able to set up sensors, connect them to a gateway, store the readings in a cloud database, chart both lo...

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  Many manufacturing firms run custom manufacturing, test, or calibration equipment that was designed for the first generation of a product. Sometimes this is perfectly adequate. However, it can also lead to the following costs.       Downtime due to a computer or I/O hardware failure wher...

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