Big Data Brazil Blog

Imagine that your company has all those IOTs devices at the warehouses and factories, advanced planning systems and all the state of the art means of production, but doesn’t have a reliable system to interact and collaborate with their Suppliers? Many companies adopt the Contract Manufacturing model (also named Subcontracting) where theirs Suppliers are responsible to build their products and send to them the finished products. Other companies receive from Suppliers some raw material and send them to other more specialized Suppliers to finish the products needed.   More specifically, contract manufacturing is an outsourcing of certain production activities that were previously performed by the manufacturer to a third-party. A company may outsource the manufacture of certain components for the product or outsource the assembly of the product. The Boeing aviation company use this subcontracting model to receive parts from the 787. Their supplier network includes wings m...

Some years ago, when I was finishing a course about Oil & Gas industry technologies I wrote about Digital Oil Fields projects. At those projects the Oil & Gas Industry started to use sensors to meter temperature and pressure at Oil rigs & risers, generating data to be analyzed, stablishing present and predicting future behaviors.   Usually the use of those sensors were supported by Oil Gas private networks installed at the rigs. Some years later, after the evolution of the network infrastructure and the vertiginous decreasing price of sensors, they have reached a lot of industries, including disaster relief, transportation, agroindustry, healthcare, procurement and also has spread to our vehicles, homes, etc. Seeing this evolution, The Gartner Group and other market players stablished a concept called IoT.   “The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of physical objects that contain embedded technology to communicate and sense or interact with their...