The Industrial IoT Blog
IIoT Insights by Henry Costa
Category: Career
Lessons, stories, and insights from my journey through Industrial IoT and Smart Manufacturing.
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What I Learned Building a Smart Manufacturing Portfolio for Consulting
Read more: What I Learned Building a Smart Manufacturing Portfolio for ConsultingCreating a Smart Manufacturing or Digital Manufacturing portfolio for a consulting company is one of those things that sounds simple on paper but is anything but in real life. Over the past two decades, I’ve built and led practices from…
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My Manufacturing Projects in South America: Real Stories from the Shop Floor
Read more: My Manufacturing Projects in South America: Real Stories from the Shop FloorIf I look back at the last 20 years or so, a big chunk of my life has been spent in factories and plants across South America. I’ve worked everywhere from steel mills in Brazil to food plants in Peru…
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How I Moved from Building Websites to Building Connected Factories
Read more: How I Moved from Building Websites to Building Connected FactoriesIf you’d told me back in the late ‘90s that I’d end up designing IIoT architectures for global manufacturing networks, I probably would have laughed and said, “First, let me get this JavaScript working.” My path from simple websites to…
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Getting Started with SAP xMII: My Journey from Web to Factory Floor
Read more: Getting Started with SAP xMII: My Journey from Web to Factory FloorI still remember the first time I walked into a real factory as an IT guy. It was 2005, and up until then, my world was all about web development — PHP, JavaScript, databases, and the usual chaos of internet…
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From Web Pages to the Shop Floor: My Jump Into Manufacturing
Read more: From Web Pages to the Shop Floor: My Jump Into ManufacturingI still remember the first time I walked into a real factory, not just as a visitor, but as someone expected to connect those noisy machines to SAP. I came from years of web development — building e-commerce and government…