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How do you get your machines ready for the (industrial) internet? I think one of the
keys is that of thinking about how you allow someone to connect to your machine without
you having to be involved. How would you structure the data so that the right thing gets accessed
and the wrong thing does not get accidentally accessed? In order to make that happen, I
think two things have to happen. Number one is the control platform that you use has to
be designed to be connected. In our industry, a lot of the technology we have is pre-internet.
So, we’ve got to be careful and make sure that we don’t try to make a connection where
a connection was not designed to be made. The second point is taking advantage of some
of the newer standards that allow you to structure what type of data gets accessed versus what
type of data doesn’t need to get accessed. I’m talking about things like OBCUA that
you can just get from a variety of different vendors. So, the (industry) internet is going
to happen if we make it easy for machines to connect to be the suppliers for a big data
analytics. We can get a head start if we think about modern technology controlling the device
and we think about standard protocols, communicating data from the device up to the bigger cloud.