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At Smart Industry, we’re proud to announce the nine winners of our inaugural Industrial Transformation Awards. We’ve built a spot that features all the winners, video interviews and stories about their digital transformation journeys. smartindustry.com/ITAs

In New Product Roundup: Emerson has AI capabilities within its Guardian Digital Platform, PIA Automation debuts a business service that adds humanoid robots to factories, and ABB Robotics joins with Jacobi to pair AI software with robotics hardware. smartindustry.com/industry-news/…

To transform your CMMS into a profit center, it must be treated as a living document, writes Terry Alexander of Life Cycle Engineering. smartindustry.com/benefits-of-tr…

IIoT's true value, Sunthar Subramanian of Cognizant writes today, sits between two extremes for manufacturers: connected everything or “legacy” plant equipment, integration headaches, workforce skepticism, and pilots that never quite scale. smartindustry.com/tools-of-trans…

How did ALDOT transform? The department utilized Cisco routers and switches to deploy traffic signal controllers, digital message systems, and traffic communication and cameras all over the state, at every exit along major highways: smartindustry.com/sponsored/arti…

"At the heart of our transformation was a clear and present challenge to modernize a very fragmented and aging technology." Hear much more from TxDOT's Anh Selissen about the agency's modernization journey: smartindustry.com/sponsored/vide…

A key bridge in Arkansas was consistently clogged with traffic. Problem, meet the solution: Arkansas Department of Transportation transformed with digital tools and minimal infrastructure improvements and lowered commute times. ArDOT's Jeremy Hill: smartindustry.com/sponsored/vide…

TxDOT focused its transformation on modernization, retiring mainframes and adopting a cloud-first strategy. It also implemented AI-powered incident detection systems. Hear TxDOT's Anh Selissen tell SI's Scott Achelpohl the full story: smartindustry.com/sponsored/vide…

"Transformation is as much cultural as it is technical." Words of wisdom from Rohini More of Rivian, winner of an Industrial Transformation Award from Smart Industry and sponsor Cisco Industrial IoT. Hear much more from Rohini: smartindustry.com/sponsored/vide…

As Rivian's Rohini More tells it, the EV maker transformed its network into a "new kind" of single, unified ecosystem, where IT and OT exist as one. Hear her tell more of Rivian's convergence and transformation story to Smart Industry's Scott Achelpohl: smartindustry.com/sponsored/vide…

"Smart design can outperform costly expansion," ArDOT's Jeremy Hill tells Smart Industry. He's talking about the state agency's transformation solutions for a key bridge. Here's the full video by SI's Scott Achelpohl and story by Robert Schoenberger: smartindustry.com/sponsored/vide…

A key bridge was clogged with traffic. Arkansas Department of Transportation transformed with digital tools and minimal infrastructure improvements and lowered commute times by 30% on the span, increased driver satisfaction, and cut costs. smartindustry.com/sponsored/vide…

The podcast picks up where Jennifer Szkatulski of Immersive Labs left off in February at a Chicago session: She joins our Sarah Mattalian for a look into how supply chain attacks occur, ways to prepare for attacks, and even games out an attack scenario. smartindustry.com/home/podcast/5…

"Solving the human part of the transformation was probably the most important part of the puzzle," National Grid's Adriano Antiquera tells Smart Industry. See the full video and story: smartindustry.com/sponsored/vide…

Adriano Antiquera says National Grid's digital transformation started with internal talks in 2022 about IT/OT convergence and how to improve communications among their networks. National Grid has won an inaugural Industrial Transformation Award: smartindustry.com/sponsored/vide…

The theme of IT and OT convergence emerges again, this time as the central focus of National Grid's digital transformation. National Grid is a winner of a Industrial Transformation Award from Smart Industry and Cisco Industrial IoT. See the full video: smartindustry.com/sponsored/vide…

Executive buy-in is key to a digital transformation journey, and in NorthWestern Energy's case, the utility's Kelly Ferriter told us, "the tickle-down effect" was NorthWestern received resources it needed for its "path to operational success." Here's more: smartindustry.com/sponsored/vide…

NorthWestern Energy focused its digital transformation on the customer experience, grid modernization, power generation expansion and wildfire mitigation. For this, NorthWestern won an Industrial Transformation Award: smartindustry.com/sponsored/vide…

A Industrial Transformation Award winner from Smart Industry and sponsor Cisco Industrial IoT, Keurig Dr Pepper has implemented a range of manufacturing tech, like MES, machine learning, and predictive maintenance. See the video/story: smartindustry.com/sponsored/vide…

Industrial Transformation Award-winner and beverage produces several soda brands and coffees. To accomplish this and much more, KDP embarked about two years ago on a network-modernization journey. See the full video and story about KDP's journey: smartindustry.com/sponsored/vide…

Connectivity upgrades were essential to Duke Energy's digital transformation, the utility's lead telecom architect Ken Smith told Smart Industry. Duke has won an Industrial Transformation Award from Smart Industry. Here's the full video/story: smartindustry.com/sponsored/vide…