Digital Transformation Terms
Is this list missing a term? Click the icon in the bottom right corner of the page to put in a request.
| Term | Definition | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Agile | • Agility is all about being able to adjust to how your knowledge expands • 4 Main Principles: • Individuals and interactions over processes and tools • Working product over comprehensive documentation • Customer collaboration over contract negotiation • Responding to change over following a plan |
FrameworX University Launch Event |
| Closed Architecture | • Specific software and hardware play nice • Closed protocol |
What is open Architecture? |
| Data Lake | • Data Lakes create a single repository for both structured and unstructured data, • Easy for data scientists to pull exactly what they need for analysis. |
Data Lakes vs. Data Warehouses |
| Data Warehouse | • Structured, processed data • Ready for reports by business users • Use with BI / analytics |
Data Lakes vs. Data Warehouses |
| Digital Transformation | • The process an Industry 3.0 organization goes through to become an Industry 4.0 organization • An industry 4.0 organization is trying to achieve the Holy Grail • Going from manual or paper processes to integrated digital processes • Much more than digitalization, need to re-evaluate all business processes |
What is Digital Transformation? 2021 Update (1:03) |
| Digitalization | • Transforming your business processes for digital | Digitization vs Digitalization |
| Digitization | • Converting data to a digital format • E.g. Paper report to PDF |
Digitization vs Digitalization |
| DTMA | • Digital Transformation Maturity Assessment | |
| Historian | • A tool that records data from the control system. But like so many other things in the manufacturing realm, that’s not really sufficient. There are many types of historians that end-user manufacturers can use. | What is a historian? |
| Holy Grail | • Goal of an Industry 4.0 Manufacturer: • Connected • Integrated • Informed Real-time • Current State • Future State • Predict Failures • Automated Recommendations • Execution of Recommendations |
What is Digital Transformation? 2021 Update (3:11 - 6:43) |
| IIoT | • Industrial Internet of Things • The ecosystem that is created when digitally transforming |
What is Digital Transformation? 2021 Update (0:23) |
| Industry 3.0 | • Automation of manufacturing processes • Creates data |
Digital Factory Mastermind [FREE 1-Hour Training] (17:53 - 18:23) |
| Industry 4.0 | • Digital integration and automation of business processes • creates information |
Digital Factory Mastermind [FREE 1-Hour Training] (18:25 - 18:42) |
| MES | • Manufacturing Execution System • AKA Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) • The system in the middle of your business that takes something that you sold and planned to manufacture and it helps you execute the manufacturing of that thing • It is not a product, it is a big bucket of capabilities and you are picking the ones you need for your business • 4 Core Capabilities in every MES: • Work orders • Scheduling work orders to run • OEE (Availability, Quality, and Performance) • Downtime Tracking |
What is MES? Manufacturing Execution Systems |
| MTR | • Minimum Technical Requirements • Open Architecture • Lightweight • Report by Exception • Edge-Driven |
|
| Open Architecture | • The concept that everything plays nice • Uses open protocols, not proprietary |
What is open Architecture? |
| PLC | • Programmable Logic Controller | |
| PoC | • Proof of Concept | |
| SCADA | • Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition | |
| UNS | • Unified Namespace • Single source of truth for all data in your business • The structure of all the business data in one place • All data for the entire business in one place for all applications to be able to consume from |
What is the UNIFIED NAMESPACE? (@3:23) |
Resources
- The definition list table was created as a spreadsheet and then converted to a markdwon table using the Table to Markdown tool
- Complete glossary of Digital Transformation Terms