November 16, 2015

IT departments at large manufacturing companies support more than just front-office communications. They also monitor and maintain machine-to-machine (M2M) connections. Integration between production machinery and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems is critical, too, and it’s not just Operations that wants more accurate analytics. For smaller manufacturers, learning about the Internet of Things (IoT) could mean sampling two “flavors.” For their IT departments, there are multiple M2M factors to digest.