Gary Hilson

Advertisement The Fourth Industrial Revolution is moving faster than anticipated. Recent research released by Plex Systems found the manufacturing floor is further along than generally perceived thanks in large part to connectivity and cloud…

Advertisement It took three decades for 3D printing to become a disruptive force in the supply chain and it’s still relatively immature, but 4D printing is starting to emerge as a further extension of additive manufacturing. According to Grandview…

Advertisement If manufacturers want to successfully transition to Industry 4.0 they must stop looking at information technology (IT) as a cost center. Instead, IT should be viewed as a “profit enabler” that addresses efficiency, asset efficiency, and…

Advertisement There’s been plenty of talk about how the industrial Internet of Things (IoT) will revolutionize manufacturing and supply chains, and now it’s getting a boost from IBM’s Watson. ABB recently announced it was collaborating to bring…

Advertisement Many organizations are facing the challenges that come with digital transformation. For those in manufacturing, the task is to keep pace with the fourth industrial revolution, dubbed Industry 4.0, which requires integrated and automated…

The consumer wireless market in in the United States is extremely competitive, but when you’re looking to disrupt business models and also provide e-commerce in crowded market, competition is even fiercer. For Republic Wireless in Raleigh, North…

Advertisement Improved materials with be where the innovation is in the coming years, disrupting the current paradigms of parts replacement and storage. Not surprisingly, 3D printing got a lot of attention at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show,…

TORONTO — Better late than never might be a good way to sum up NRAM. After years of not quite be ready for wide adoption, a new report from BCC Research is predicting that Nano-Ram (NRAM) is finally in a position to disrupt incumbent DRAM and flash…

Advertisement A core principle of One Network Enterprises is that reducing information latency – even eliminating it, if possible – is fundamental to how it brings value to its customers, and it now has the science to back it up. A study recently…

Advertisement Pervasive WiFi and cloud services mean there's less need for USB thumb drives. They will die a slow death as users hit connectivity and online storage constraints, as well as limited drive space on tablets. I rarely find use for my…

Advertisement Just as its predecessors did, the LPDDR4 specification is aiming to double its data rates while slashing power consumption in half, but the first publication of the spec by JEDEC won't be until 2014. And even though LPDDR3 is still…

Just as its predecessors did, the LPDDR4 specification is aiming to double its data rates while slashing power consumption in half, but the first publication of the spec by JEDEC won't be until 2014. And even though LPDDR3 is still working to gain…