Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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A major promise of the Internet of Things is the ability to keep control of multiple machines in a production line or plantwide, frequently with multiple pieces of equipment from different manufacturers, often running different software, all under the control of manufacturing engineers who must make sense of the data and turn it into actionable insight. How can users of older, legacy equipment integrate new machines into existing production processes without creating chaos?

Jim Anderton spoke with Bill Dykas, Product Manager for Telit IoT Platforms on connecting old and new equipment in the age of the Internet of Things.

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