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The 2025 CIO of the Year & Tech Titan Awards are happening today, and GrayMatter is proud to be a Pittsburgh Technology Council & Fortyx80 sponsor. If you're attending, be sure to stop by to chat with us about Industry 4.0, Digital Transformation, Automation & Controls, Operational Technology, Cybersecurity and more at the Technology Showcase and Reception. See you there! Visit: graymattersystems.com #ciooftheyear #techtitanawards #pittsburghtechnology https://lnkd.in/gHktCbCt

#OEE calculates the percentage of manufacturing time that is truly productive by measuring availability, performance and quality. It can be a valuable tool to determine efficiency... if you have the right data. A GrayMatter client needed a solution to standardize OEE data across its many facilities. Each site used different units of measure (e.g., pounds vs. pieces), which made it difficult to compare performance metrics and identify inefficiencies. Details in our latest #ProjectX case study: https://lnkd.in/gPsaVj-G #manufacturing #automation #industrialtechnology

“The (data center) market will be adding data centers equivalent to the amount of power New York City consumes annually, every year for the next five years." New in GrayMatter's #TechHub industry blog this week: 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘀 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 & 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗡𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘄 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gcT_pgmY h/t Pittsburgh Technology Council & Fortyx80 + Michael Elias of Cowen Inc. #datacenters #industrialtechnology #automation

GrayMatter is live today at the Pittsburgh Technology Center's Pennsylvania Data Center & Energy Innovation Summit! GrayMatter works with data center builders to design, build and commission essential water cooling systems, redundant energy sources and power grid monitoring. Visit us at graymattersystems.com to learn more about our Automation & Controls work.

Our clients are some of the coolest people we know. Together we create industrial, data-driven solutions to help reduce food waste, prevent pollution, prevent malware, conserve water and envision new efficiencies. ProjectX is a collection of GrayMatter client stories and a look into some of our projects. Check it out and let us know what you think! #industrialtechnology #operationaltechnology #manufacturing

There is an incredible amount of valuable data in manufacturing that's trapped on paper. It might be in the form of paper logs that "follow" products as they go through the steps in a production line, or it could be traceability info required for compliance checks. Wherever a facility is collecting data on paper, it's probably worth examining the cost-benefit of doing it that way. For example, are you dedicating a valuable employee's time to digging through paper volumes to perform a compliance action that takes 2 weeks but should take 20 minutes? Could digitization free up that person to pursue a project that truly adds value? Analyzing those considerations and translating the outcome into business impact is what digital transformation is about. Check out one of our latest ProjectX case studies about a food producer we helped digitize paper logs and achieve real benefits. Read: https://lnkd.in/gFnrAAYQ #industrialtechnology #manufacturing #manufacturingexecutionsystem #MES

Not everyone needs to be a data scientist, but you do need to understand how AI is evolving in your industry. All four "Building Smarter AI" panelists at today's Pittsburgh Technology Council & Fortyx80 Beyond Big Data AI/ML Summit rated the "importance of AI literacy" for employees on a scale of 1-10. It was 9 or 10 across the board. When it came to estimating the actual knowledge employees have about AI — it was all 3 and 4 ratings. So, we all have some work to do! Luckily, speakers at this year's summit went well beyond explaining the AI/ML tools that are out there, and spent more time diving into how they work, how they scale and what industrial companies can do with them. "When it comes to AI, you can't pass up the productivity gains." A couple other phrases that kept coming up on our AI bingo card: "garbage in garbage out" "human in the loop" "bias in the model" "transforming data into knowledge" And the AI & cybersecurity takeaway of the day goes to David Kane, who pointed to a recent CSO Online story that reported a study of LLM data leakage shows nearly 10 percent of prompts contained sensitive info like customer data. Thanks to Audrey Russo and her team, and James Gillespie and the entire PTC board of directors for hosting and supporting another terrific event that brought out hundreds from Pittsburgh's technology community. Way to go! Visit us at graymattersystems.com #pittsburghtechnology #beyondbigdata #machinelearning #industrialtechnology

“Some people need help thinking through a problem and laying out a roadmap, and we’ve got the consulting ability to be able to do that," GrayMatter CRO James Gillespie tells Control System Integrators Association (CSIA)'s Talking Industrial Podcast. "And some people need you to roll up your sleeves and just help them with what they’re already planning on doing and engage with the new process or technology – so it’s cultural, and we’re pretty good at managing the whole process. We have a lot of repeat business, people that have been with us since the beginning." 🔗 Visit graymattersystems.com #industrialtechnology #systemintegrator #industrialintelligence

𝘿𝙤 𝙄𝙣𝙫𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙂𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘿𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙡? A Harvard Business School Professor studied the value that publicly traded firms derive from adopting a digital transformation strategy. The study examined companies embarking on a digital venture by capturing mentions of keywords such as big data, artificial intelligence and digital transformation in 10K filings, earnings calls & investor call transcripts. ➡️ Check out our in-depth conversation on GrayMatter's emPOWERUP Podcast: https://lnkd.in/gjK86as8