Articles, news and notes from the field
What Sycon publishes between deployments: the technical background, the announcements, and what installations teach.
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What industrial IoT really changes in a plant already built
Industry 4.0 promises the connected plant. On the floor, the first question is a smaller one: what needs measuring, and on which machines already in place?
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What 5G changes about detecting a machine failure
Before low-latency networks, a machine stayed out of sight between two readings. That interval is where the so-called unpredictable failures used to sit.
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What 5G changes about quality inspection on a production line
One more camera at the edge of the line is not enough. What decides whether an automated inspection is useful is the delay between the image and the verdict.
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Production data where the shift manager actually stands
Between the incident and the information there is usually a corridor, a staircase and a fixed screen. That walk is what a connected tablet removes.
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The colour change is where a cable line makes its scrap
On a cable, colour identifies the conductor. A shade off tolerance is not paid for in appearance, but in scrap and in wiring errors.
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An invisible leak shows up in pressure and flow
On a drinking water network, most losses are never visible from the surface. They are deduced from two perfectly ordinary measurements.
