Bill Dehner

Technical Marketing Engineer, AutomationDirect.com

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Bill Dehner is a Technical Marketing Engineer at AutomationDirect.com.

10 Common Operational KPIs

10 Common Operational KPIs

A closer look at the top 10 operational KPIs that could prove vital to enterprise-wide success and employee engagement. Editors David Mantey and Jeff Reinke take a look at the top 10 Operational KPIs outlined in Oracle Netsuite's latest white paper.

Figure 1: Lightweight portal devices like this AutomationDirect Stride Pocket Portal can be quickly and easily installed to add IoT capabilities at any type of facility.

Lightweight Automation Options

Some automation applications don’t need a full-blown control system, and today’s lightweight devices can offer targeted and economical options.

This AutomationDirect Productivity2000 controller offers significant data logging capabilities with 32 GB of storage space, filling the needs for many data collection applications.

Data-Driven Trends

The tried and true industrial data collection methods of the last several decades will expand into the future as Big Data and IIoT technology developments lead to more data, analytics and related benefits.