We’re currently being bombarded from every angle with news about the latest crises and challenges facing businesses. Amidst all this noise, it is important for food manufacturers to remain focused on their goals and have a strategy with which to navigate changing circumstances. In this blog we’ll consider the top 5 trends expected to have a big impact upon the […]

We have big news. Today we launch the new innius Insight app. This will replace the existing Android and Insight webapp.   Login to the new app here Download the Android app here Download the iOS app here   This is the culmination of months of hard work by the team and a huge step forward in user experience. You […]

We were honored to be nominated for the Food Valley ICT Awards 2019 in the ‘Best software Company 2019’ category. We did not win but it was very cool to participate. This film (in Dutch) was made as part of the Innius nomination. Our sales manager, Johan van Holland, talks about bringing people and machines together, comakership, process improvement and […]

Working closely with our customers to create value for their businesses is a key part of the innius philosophy. We had a really positive response to innius release 2.0 at the start of the year, both from existing customers and new prospects. The highlight of that release being the new Logistics Data report. It gave one of our customers the […]

Integrating production logistics and machine data We’re thrilled to kick off 2019 with a new product release: innius 2.0. There are several aspects of this release, as covered in our release notes, but the most significant is the new production logistics data report. Being able to integrate production logistics with machine data is a major milestone. For production companies using […]

Innius was recently at the SPS IPC Drives 2018 exhibition in Germany. We were there on the HMS Industrial Networks stand as official Solution Partners. Here John Rijksen gives a short interview about Innius.  

Introduction Building a solid business case for investing in innius, a Smart Industry and IIoT solution, is something you have to do deliberately. Several renowned writers from companies like McKinsey & Company, Cap Gemini and LNS Research have recently published research findings indicating that companies struggle with the financial quantification of business case to invest in IIoT technology. Reasons for […]

Enabling maintenance engineers to create value from machinery and industrial assets Today’s successful maintenance engineers gained proficiency through years of formal and on-the-job learning combined with mentoring and coaching from senior experts. The resulting skills and expertise are broad and deep. However, even the most experienced professionals can’t anticipate and consider all the data and eventualities that matter when it […]

Ensuring optimal flexibility while streamlining the construction of the realtime, digital factory Flexibility is essential in tomorrow’s digitally driven, realtime factory, notes consulting and engineering company Tebodin, in its whitepaper about The Three Success Factors for the Factory of the Future. However, don’t overdo flexibility, but keep it linked to your manufacturing business model and customer needs. Connecting your digital […]

Tomorrow’s competitive, successful factories will need to be connected and flexible at levels rarely seen today, says Tebodin, the global consulting and engineering company, in a short whitepaper on The Three Success Factors for the Factory of the Future. In our team discussions, we found that the paper gets many things right. What should manufacturers think about as they aim […]

innius 1.6 comes with new options for achieving productivity and performance improvements Veenendaal, Netherlands — May 30, 2017 — innius, the software solution for production companies that want to ensure optimal business outcomes from their industrial assets, is now available in the new release 1.6. This version of innius enhances the visibility of the performance of industrial assets and production […]

On the way to servitization, real-time IIoT data can enable the critical first step For the manufacturers and users of complex machinery and other industrial products, the servitization business model promises increased value and competitiveness, more stable revenues, controlled costs, and minimized risks. In the servitization journey, live IIoT data can facilitate the all-important step of enabling predictive maintenance services. […]

7 tactics for improving OEE across your plant and companywide production operations Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) can be a powerful metric to help improve the performance of your machines and industrial assets. Improving OEE can get complicated when manufacturers gather too much or the wrong kind of data. Then it may become difficult to boost OEE performance across plants and production […]

Do you really need a CMMS to achieve better manufacturing machine performance? The right computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) will help you make sustainable improvements in your management and maintenance of industrial assets. It takes time to implement such a system and produce those outcomes. If a CMMS will not help you address the maintenance challenges you need to deal […]

innius 1.5 comes with new options for achieving productivity and performance improvements Veenendaal, Netherlands — April 4th, 2017 — innius, the software solution for production companies that want to ensure optimal business outcomes from their industrial assets, is now available in the new release 1.5.0. This version of innius enhances the visibility of the performance of industrial assets and production […]

Conventional wisdom says that you need to meet production targets, measured against throughput KPIs, to make customers happy. But – do your customers really want nothing more than fast, reliable production? For most of the manufacturers we talk to, business is not that simple any more. Customers are more demanding than ever, and their customers in turn are looking for more. […]

7 uses for real-time machine performance data When you connect industrial assets – machines in your operation or machine products you have placed on customer sites – to the internet of things (IoT), they immediately generate data streams. You can assess just about any machine condition in real time. Here are some practical scenarios for making that data pay off. #1: […]

Moving away from break-fix maintenance or a regular maintenance schedule to a predictive maintenance model can look challenging and expensive at first. But it doesn’t have to be that way. You can create your new maintenance program one low-risk, controlled step at a time. #1: Pinpoint losses for key machines You should not aim to convert your entire maintenance operation […]

Manufacturers collect large amounts of data, but when it comes to getting real value from that data, many companies often fall short. One area where manufacturing operations could particularly benefit from data is machine health and performance. Keeping a close watch on how your production machinery is working can lead directly to better business decisions and increases in operating income. Keep reading […]

5 ways condition-based machine monitoring enables proactive maintenance and improves your operation Proactive maintenance on your machines helps you prevent unscheduled downtime and minimize the productivity disruptions associated with scheduled maintenance. When you perform proactive instead of reactive maintenance, you save costs and avoid the expanding ripple effect of downtime, which can jeopardize your ability to keep your customer commitments […]

Don’t let machine downtime ruin your throughput Do you ever experience unscheduled downtime of production-critical machinery and equipment? Downtime often lasts too long and casts a long shadow. Frequently, you need to locate a skilled specialist who can analyze the problem and bring that expert to the site where the repair is needed. You may also need to source parts […]

Predictive maintenance and big-data insight In our earlier blog post, we discussed how machine learning overcomes the limitations of human expertise and more traditional analytics to enable machine intelligence. Today, we consider what that means for the evolution of predictive maintenance. Reactive maintenance: corrective, preventive In many companies, corrective maintenance is still current practice: You fix things once they break, […]

Machine learning overcomes the limitations of human operators and traditional data analysis to provide practical insight Machine learning originally was an extremely ambitious, almost futuristic concept: a kind of artificial intelligence that furnishes a software program with the ability to process information in such a way that it can learn without being re-programmed, and change its activities in response to new […]

You see the polls and articles about the risks in adopting the internet of things (IoT) and harvesting data streams from connected sensors on machines and products to get to broader, more meaningful intelligence in your business. Analysts and executives voice such concerns as security threats, exploding budgets, or poor definition of the possible benefits. Those are important, yet manageable issues. […]

Recently, we took a closer look at the architectural basics that enable security in innius. In today’s blog post, we discuss how innius security decides who the actors interfacing with the solution are, how to identify them, how they prove who they are, and what they are allowed to do. Identifying and authenticating innius actors In the context of the cloud […]

The internet of things (IoT) poses real security risks and presents lots of opportunities to companies. They need to find the right balance between IoT business value and the protection of data, systems, and processes. IT has to play a leadership role in making that happen. Security planning and implementation needs IT leadership Earlier this year, TEKsystems published the results […]

In the media and social channels, IoT has almost entirely eclipsed M2M. Both technologies have their strengths and a typical range of effectiveness for industry applications. Here’s an overview of the differences and optimal application scenarios for M2M and the IoT. Different communication channels and applications You often read that machine-to-machine (M2M) technology is the predecessor of the internet of […]

The internet of things (IoT) and the industrial internet of things (IIoT) are growing fast. Companies are making larger investments, sensors are becoming less expensive and more powerful, and the evidence is coming in to show that the payoffs can be significant. innius can help you carve out a slice of that giant pie. Fast IoT growth and cautious approaches […]

Security is a prime concern for companies deploying data and solutions in the cloud. innius is a cloud-based solution with a prominent mobile component. When we decided to build innius on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform, security was a main consideration. We also created additional layers of data protection in the solution. Let’s take a look at the architectural […]