3D Printing, Big Data, 100 Percent Validation, and Other Aerospace Manufacturing Trends
Aerospace is leading the way in the IIoT, with a heightened focus on additive manufacturing, the digital thread, and lightning-fast 3D measurement and inspection technologies.
The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the growing network of physical objects that are embedded with sensors to enable connection with each other and exchange of data. The Industrial IoT (IIoT) includes those IoT devices in the industrial sector that also provide extremely large data sets that can be computationally analyzed to reveal patterns, trends, and associations, known as Big Data.
IIoT solutions have transformed manufacturing, to the extent that terms like the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Industry 4.0 are now used interchangeably to define the changeover. And while many sectors have embraced the IIoT, perhaps no other sector has changed so drastically, or produced such impressive results, as aerospace and defense.