Industrial Processes Move to the Cloud
-Cloud-based software is gaining traction in the industrial world as companies realize benefits of reducing upfront costs, scaling more easily and producing new revenue from data
https://www.automationworld.com/factory/iiot/article/13318274/industrial-processes-move-to-the-cloud
scada, cloudscada
OpEx over CapEx
new business models; The cloud represents an opportunity to expand into cloud-enabled services
limiting cloud systems to monitoring rather than control functions, plant managers can gain the benefits of the cloud while reducing their risk
cybersecurity risk helps to explain why the cloud has been more readily adopted for IT systems than for OT systems
cloud technology now provides the opportunity to connect process and asset data from a site or multiple sites to a consolidated set of knowledge