Machiq

I see a lot happening in Lausanne in Switzerland. Lots of medical devices, biosciences companies doing some pretty cool things. Look it up

If you are an Industrial Machine builder/Industrial OEM, you might be interested in our marketplace for remote diagnostic services. The remote screensharing tools are backed into the platform via WebRTC. We however don't offer remote control.

www.machiq.com

Heads will roll - and deservedly so! That said, is the system creating unhealthy incentives for companies to green-wash their products? I wonder if VW are the only lot that are doing this.

No it's not my company - thanks for pointing it out though - I am cofounder at a startup and we call ourselves MachIQ. Looks like a Trademark purchase will have tp be made eventually :-)

you can reach out to me via LinkedIn/Google - rchikballapur.

Cheers!

I am from the industry on the B2B side and this article rings even more true and much more strongly so on the B2B - industrial internet side of things. Go to any 'messe' (as they call it in Germany) or salon or expo and you see tons of connected/connectable industrial products but when you dig deeper into how those machines/components are going to be integrated, installed, commissioned, used and maintained, it becomes quickly evident that the vendors haven't thought those things through.

The dominant discourse when you talk to many OEMs is that this is a defensive play to be prepared for all those secretive inventions that Google and Apple are making in their X-Labs. They don't know what's coming so they are throwing everything at it to "cloud-wash" and "IoT-wash" their offerings even when their customers are justifiably scared about the risks of cyber-attacks that connected machines bring into their factories and plants.

In short, not enough RoI evident for the investments and changes in processes IoT mandates in the enterprise - especially in the production plants. However, based on my discussion with all the different actors, its likely that we'll find use cases in either Operations Optimization or Asset Optimization.

Very interesting article. In human history, we have always had periods where growth comes from expansion and then periods where growth comes from innovation.

Globalization was an expansion-driven growth phase and we have reached the end of what it can do for global growth - yes there are regions that are still catching up with the rest of the wrold but barring Africa, their population is relatively small so their catch-up will not contribute to significant global growth.

We have transitioned into an innovation driven growth-phase now. We'll have to wait for it to start to sputter before we know what kind of expansion-driven growth we will see next.

I like the fact that the author thinks of "what comes after" because a lot of the green efforts that we are seeing are looking to prevent climate change/global warming and not enough of preparing for the eventuality that our preventive actions may fail and what would the world look like if we failed and how do we survive & benefit from that.