Mobile Usage Is Rocketing Search Efforts
by Gavin O'Malley, Yesterday, 1:24 PM
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Why is mobile device search usage important to the industrial automation industry? Because it shows us a booming trend in the way users want to access information--and it shouldn't matter if that information is coming from a website, or from a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) or an industrial application such as Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence or Human Machine Interface software.
People are "joined at the hip" with their smart device. Can you imagine driving somewhere, or even taking a walk, without your smart phone? Unheard of. In the world of industrial automation, it's getting to be the same. Smart Devices are being fed by information coming from data historians, MES applications, workflow, and corporate energy management software. It's allowing people to get the information they need, when they need it, to make more effective and timely decisions.
So you are now seeing a growing supply of vendors, large and small, who are providing either complete, or point solutions of mobile device-enabled reporting, visualization, and analytics. Costs are coming down, to fulfill the single-user need for personalized information. It's becoming part of the standard product offering, versus a strong differentiator. For the end user, that's a really good thing.
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