Internet Of Things 简明教程
IoT - Manufacturing Applications
当前正在使用的制造技术利用了标准技术以及现代分发和分析。物联网引入了更深入的集成和更强大的分析。这以前所未有的方式开启了制造业世界，因为组织变得完全具备向产品交付的能力，而不是一个松散连接起来的供应商、制造商和分销商的全球网络。
Manufacturing technology currently in use exploits standard technology along with modern distribution and analytics. IoT introduces deeper integration and more powerful analytics. This opens the world of manufacturing in a way never seen before, as organizations become fullydeveloped for product delivery rather than a global network of suppliers, makers, and distributors loosely tied together.
Intelligent Product Enhancements
与内容交付中的物联网非常相似，制造中的物联网允许获得更丰富的实时见解。这极大地减少了专门用于这一个领域的的时间和资源，后者在传统上要求在产品进入市场之前、期间和之后进行大量的市场调研。
Much like IoT in content delivery, IoT in manufacturing allows richer insight in real-time. This dramatically reduces the time and resources devoted to this one area, which traditionally requires heavy market research before, during, and well after the products hit the market.
物联网还可以降低推出新的或改进产品的风险，因为它提供了更可靠和更详细的信息。该信息直接来自市场使用和买家，而不是来自不同可信度的各种来源。
IoT also reduces the risks associated with launching new or modified products because it provides more reliable and detailed information. The information comes directly from market use and buyers rather than assorted sources of varied credibility.
Dynamic Response to Market Demands
供应市场需要维持受多种因素影响的某种平衡，例如经济状况、销售业绩、季节、供应商状况、制造设施状况、分销状况等。由于当今的全球合作伙伴关系，供应相关的费用提出了独特的挑战。相关的潜在或实际损失会极大地影响业务和未来的决策。
Supplying the market requires maintaining a certain balance impacted by a number of factors such as economy state, sales performance, season, supplier status, manufacturing facility status, distribution status, and more. The expenses associated with supply present unique challenges given today’s global partners. The associated potential or real losses can dramatically impact business and future decisions.
物联网通过确保以系统级别而非通过人为评估和决策来管理细微的细节，从而管理这些方面。物联网系统可以更好地评估和控制供应链（大多数产品），无论需求是高还是低。
IoT manages these areas through ensuring fine details are managed more at the system level rather than through human evaluations and decisions. An IoT system can better assess and control the supply chain (with most products), whether demands are high or low.
Lower Costs, Optimized Resource Use, and Waste Reduction
物联网替代了生产设施和整个供应链中的传统劳力和工具，从而削减了许多之前无法避免的成本；例如，传统上需要人工进行维护检查或测试可以通过物联网系统的仪器和传感器远程执行。
IoT offers a replacement for traditional labor and tools in a production facility and in the overall chain which cuts many previously unavoidable costs; for example, maintenance checks or tests traditionally requiring human labor can be performed remotely with instruments and sensors of an IoT system.
物联网还可以增强运作分析，以优化资源利用和劳动，并消除各种类型的浪费，例如能源和材料。它分析从源点到终点的整个流程，而不仅仅分析特定设施某一处的流程，这将使改进产生更重大的影响。它本质上减少了整个网络中的浪费，并将节省于整个网络中体现。
IoT also enhances operation analytics to optimize resource use and labor, and eliminate various types of waste, e.g., energy and materials. It analyzes the entire process from the source point to its end, not just the process at one point in a particular facility, which allows improvement to have a more substantial impact. It essentially reduces waste throughout the network, and returns those savings throughout.
Improved Facility Safety
由于流程、设备和产品处理带来的风险，典型的设施会遇到许多健康和安全危害。物联网有助于更好地控制和可见性。其监测扩展到设备的整个网络，不仅限于性能，还限于危险故障和使用。它有助于（或执行）分析和修复或纠正关键缺陷。
A typical facility suffers from a number of health and safety hazards due to risks posed by processes, equipment, and product handling. IoT aids in better control and visibility. Its monitoring extends throughout the network of devices for not only performance, but for dangerous malfunctions and usage. It aids (or performs) analysis and repair, or correction, of critical flaws.
Product Safety
即使是最复杂化的系统也不能避免故障、不合格产品和其他危害进入市场。有时，这些事件与制造流程无关，而是由未知冲突造成的。
Even the most sophisticated system cannot avoid malfunctions, nonconforming product, and other hazards finding their way to market. Sometimes these incidents have nothing to do with the manufacturing process, and result from unknown conflicts.
在制造中，物联网有助于避免召回并控制不合格或危险产品的配送。其高水平的可见性、控制和集成可以更好地包含出现的任何问题。
In manufacturing, IoT helps in avoiding recalls and controlling nonconforming or dangerous product distribution. Its high level of visibility, control, and integration can better contain any issues that appear.