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Industrial Digital Transformation

You're reading from Industrial Digital Transformation

Product type Book

Published in Nov 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800207677

Pages 426 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Cloud Computing

Authors (4):

Shyam Varan Nath

Ann Dunkin

Mahesh Chowdhary

Nital Patel

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: The "Why" of Digital Transformation

2. Chapter 1: Introducing Digital Transformation

3. Chapter 2: Transforming the Culture in an Organization

4. Chapter 3: Emerging Technologies to Accelerate Digital Transformation

5. Chapter 4: Business Drivers for Industrial Digital Transformation

6. Section 2: The "How" of Digital Transformation

7. Chapter 5: Transforming One Industry at a Time

8. Chapter 6: Transforming the Public Sector

9. Chapter 7: The Transformation Ecosystem

10. Chapter 8: Artificial Intelligence in Digital Transformation

11. Chapter 9: Pitfalls to Avoid in the Digital Transformation Journey

12. Chapter 10: Measuring the Value of Transformation

13. Chapter 11: The Blueprint for Success

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The state of the industrial sector

Compared to industries such as semiconductor manufacturing or automotive, the digital transformation of industrial processes is lagging in process industries (for example, oil, gas, and chemicals).

Process industry investment decision periods tend to be much longer as the potential risk associated with changing a production system in operation is always considered to be too high due to the interdependencies of processes. Changes can have an impact on a complex process system and lead, for example, to serious incidents, such as an explosion at an oil plant or chemical plant. In addition, no plant operator would want to alter a running system unless the anticipated benefits outweigh the risks substantially.

In January 2020, Honeywell CEO Darius Adamczyk discussed the software strategy of the company, which included the transformation to becoming a much more digitally modern company. This strategy consists of three components: data integrity, consistency...

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Authors (4)

Shyam Varan Nath

Specialist Leader - AI & Analytics, Deloitte

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Ann Dunkin

Ann Dunkin, P.E. is a Chief Technology Officer at Dell Technologies. She has over a decade of experience as a Chief Information Officer, including as the CIO of the US EPA in the Obama Administration. She has led digital transformations in large organizations and has written and spoken extensively on the topics of technology modernization, organizational transformation and digital services. She serves on a several non-profit and for-profit boards and has received numerous awards for her contributions to government digital transformation.

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Mahesh Chowdhary

Mahesh Chowdhary, Ph.D., is a Fellow and the Director of Strategic Platforms and the IoT Excellence Center at STMicroelectronics, based in Santa Clara, CA. He leads the effort on the development of solutions and reference designs for mobile phones, consumer electronic devices, automotive and industrial applications that utilize MEMS sensors, and computing and connectivity products. His areas of expertise include AI/ML, MEMS sensors, IoT, digital transformation, and location technologies. He has been awarded 24 patents. He has spoken extensively internationally about ML, smart sensors, and IoT. Mahesh received his Ph.D. in applied science (particle accelerators) from the College of William and Mary in Virginia. He is also an adjunct professor at IIT, Delhi.

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Nital Patel

Nital Patel, Ph.D., is a Principal Engineer responsible for advanced manufacturing systems research and development at Intel, Corporation. He has spent his career contributing to digital transformation activities and projects across the manufacturing spectrum as well as in the areas of enabling agility in the enterprise supply chain leveraging data fusion, machine learning and AI. He is the lead inventor on 11 patents, has published over 50 journal and conference papers and serves on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing. In the past he has been an Adjunct Professor at the Arizona State University and has been awarded the Mahboob Khan Award from the Semiconductor Research Corporation for mentoring university research students.

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