GE Minds and Machines 2016 - November 15,16 - Pier 48 SF.

Was a real pleasure to attend GE Minds and Machines 2016, November 15,16, Pier 48 SF.

Highlights:
Current EMS Announcement. Here is a great talk by John Gordon. Also many new Current partners. Analytika is but one.

Meridium APM. Analytics for risk, availability and value management. Some great technical points made by Meridium. High in mind was a comment in an APM technical session that the majority of faults are not time related.

Many new players in the GE Digital ecosystem. TCS making great use of Predix Analytics. BitStew helping utilities. Too many to go into detail.

Signatures. Detection. Pattern Analysis. All Kin.

Much of what we do each day as humans is pattern matching and signature detection. Cimetrics has this at its core too. It appears everywhere....

Signature detection is central to image recognition. Witness Tensor Flow, Ditto Labs, and others. Signatures arise in audio and RF (and even home brew RF using RTL SDR and others). And in power and water line fluctuations. Witness Norford and Schweppe at MIT. And their follow-ons - Zenzi - and even more currently Sense (at Bolt) - as opposed to Sense.io for big data analytics - not unrelated. And both too close in name to "Zensi" and "SensEye" and others.

See recent Cimetrics blog post on signatures.

IoT, PTC, LiveWorx, Analytika.

Notices are starting to circulate about PTC LiveWorx 2015. Attended Axeda Connection and PTC LiveWorx last year. Been watching Internet of Things (IoT) in pursuance of making Cimetrics' offerings like Analytika more conformal. Year started with meeting some people from ThingWorx at M2M Miami. Watched as ThingWorx and Axeda started melding into PTC. Attended local events regarding the PTC Smart Connected Products programme.

Good friend of ours, from the energy efficiency and buildings modeling space, joined PTC. Went into high gear regarding analytics, and Cimetrics is now in the ThingWorx partner program. 

The Analytika piece for PTC is mostly about consuming and delivering data for mashups. But there are data connector pathways too. Connections had been a topic we were looking at with Axeda before the acquisition by PTC. Seems everyone is trying to understand how it all fits together. Here is an image from the connectIOT project:

And Cimetrics is still actively pursuing IoT pathways.

Cimetrics Introduces Analytika for Internet of Things.

Analytics for Internet of Things... Previously.

Picked up by

- CNBC.
- BusinessWire.
- Automation.com

Analytika for IoT extends existing analytics capabilities to address the needs of designers, manufacturers, owners and operators of all kinds of “things”. And provides a variety of cost saving and revenue-enhancing value propositions for the Internet of Things.

Analytics for Manufacturing - MTConnect Insights.

Have been looking around for analytics applied to manufacturing processes. View to how to optimize business value of the manufacturing process (aka ROI, efficiency, etc.). [And optimization can be about consumables, parts, energy - usually uptime and reliability are key concerns.]
Found an approach with the following components:
Protocol or language: MTConnect. Wrote about MTConnect before.
Tools: Systems Insights VIMANA and their partners like Autodesk and Yamazaki Mazak.
Then apply model based analytics ala Analytika.

Postscapes IoT Awards 2014.

Had mentioned search for best IoT Blog. Postscapes just announced 2014 awards for lots of different categories of IoT. And here are the Postscapes awards for 2013. PTC Thingworx seemed very happy with taking about a third of the awards.

IoT Infographics.

Intel Platform Transforming data into insight is the essence of analytics.
Libelium Smart world and the connectedness of all things.
IoT World Landscape and Players in IoT. Matt Turck, First Mark Capital.
Microsoft Azure IoT Platform Slides page 11 most notably - but see also lead-in material.

Analysis Defined.

Dictionary definition: Examination of structure as a basis for interpretation.

As an action: Data -> Results.
Or more richly: Inputs and Ideas -> Decisions and Deliverables.

Methodologies: 7C's:

Traditional: Three "Chi"s:

• 1. Chance - guess.
• 2. Cheat - know the answer before one starts.
• 3. Chestnuts - rules of thumb with unknown basis, gut.

Systematic: Four "K"s:

• 4. Coordination - statistics and regression for projection - functions of independent variables against well understood dependent varaiables like time and position.
• 5. Correlation - aka coincidence - any available variable against any other variable... including methods used in Big Data.
• 6. Crowd - wisdom of the masses (large numbers) - human and others - emergence.
• 7. Core - models based on reality - physical and observed.

The first six are all about getting to the seventh - building a model of reality. The key is a platform and framework for getting to the core.

Network Enhanced Everything - NEE.

Have discussed "supers" previously - capacitors, batteries, insulation - and in general - materials...
also LEDs, solar photovoltaics and other renewables.

Lately thinking about everything network (and computer) enhanced...
Enhanced - manufacturing, services, handling, inventory, sensing, communications and analytics.
By no means comprehensive, but meant to encompass some popular specifics like
robotics, 3D fabrication, telepresence, IoT and M2M.

Robotics - Economist - Analysis, Logistics.

Feature section on Robotics in Economist March 27, 2014.
Rise of Robots [Ecomomist]
Economist Robotics

Highlights:

Asking for help where a robot is helpless is perhaps feature and not a bug. Drones are not in as much military demand as one might think. Who will provide us our last human kindnesses?

Thoughts:

Opportunity for analytics? Amazon Kiva Union [Forbes]
Kiva

More succinctly analytics for Logistics Automation

For cleaning iRobot Roomba
For snow? Tuvie Roofus

For lawn? Robotic Lawn Mowers

Little mention of trade show robots as a tele-presence application.

Trade Show Robots [Wired]

Cimetrics Launches Analytika

Cimetrics just released the new analytics offering website - Analytika.
http://www.analytika.com/
With Analytika for buildings, cut energy usage and cost, improve comfort and performance, detect faults, and manage the workflow of any maintenance or improvements.
With Analytika for process, predictive analytics are utilized to provide early warning, actionable recommendations and supervisory control, before parameter drift causes quality problems, process disruptions and waste.

Picked up by media outlets:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/cimetrics-inc-launches-analytika-145700352.html
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140212005852/en/Cimetrics-Launches-Analytika
http://automatedbuildings.com/releases/feb14/140212013404cimetrics.html

Cimetrics
http://www.cimetrics.com/