Take the Smart Manufacturing with Edge Solutions Quiz!

Manufacturing is built on the key tenets of productivity, efficiency and minimizing risk. To fully realize the benefits of smart manufacturing, organizations need the edge to do three things: consolidate and simplify disparate infrastructure, ensure intrinsic security, and generate insights at the point of data generation.

Take the Smart Manufacturing with Edge Solutions Quiz to establish what kind of buyer you are. We’ll instantly deliver the most helpful content to address your most significant challenges.

1. What is your organization’s long-term strategy for accelerating smart manufacturing?

We want to use connectivity, data-driven intelligence, and flexible automation We want to modernize with edge computing, AI, and 5G connectivity We want to run essential manufacturing workloads at the edge with the right security and service levels We want to leverage flexible IT-based models to keep up with business demands

2. What is your biggest challenge when it comes to modernizing production operations?

My biggest challenge is understanding the pros and cons of different pricing models My biggest challenge is enabling modernization and innovations across processes and locations My biggest challenge is planning, deploying, and managing edge solutions My biggest challenge is the explosion of IoT and other edge endpoints

3. What is the most significant benefit of smart manufacturing?

Reducing complexity, latency, and security risks at the edge Innovation in creating our products Continuous insight, from supply chain to end customer Freedom of choice in technology consumption and payment

4. When it comes to edge computing, what is top of mind?

Solving logistical challenges of gathering massive amounts of real-time data from a multitude of sensors and devices Efficient and highly scalable infrastructure, ready for deployment anywhere in the world Taking the best of the public cloud experience and applying it to the edge environment Protecting business operations

5. How would you describe the importance of modernizing with edge computing and 5G?

It’s important, and we want to enable analytics and intelligence on modern hyper-converged infrastructure It’s important, and we want to fully integrate IT and OT functions that will drive us toward full modernization It’s important, and we must be able to scale up and down according to the demand without making major investments It’s important, and we want to leverage AI, automation and 5G to make our factories smart

6. What is the biggest challenge in planning for edge deployments?

Consolidating operations, data, and infrastructure as the edge environment expands IT and OT partnering to modernize manufacturing operations Infrastructure optimized for AI and streaming data analytics Securing data, workloads, and IT infrastructure for manufacturing operations

7. Why aren’t factories as smart as they could be?

Enterprise must embrace IT- and OT-friendly edge computing and 5G infrastructure “Accidental architectures” that have evolved over the years on the factory floor Enterprises need to take advantage of consumption and as-a-service offerings that simplify digital transformation IT must enable consolidation, intrinsic security, and insights

8. Why is flexible IT such an urgent requirement today?

Moving to consumption-based IT reduces lengthy, often multi-year cycles that encumber progress Organizations are faced with unparalleled levels of change and global competition Organizations need the agility and flexibility to quickly adapt to business requirements Managing and maintaining infrastructure is getting too complex

9. What are the likely consequences for your business if you don’t improve your smart manufacturing with edge solutions?

We won’t be able to advance transformational applications efficiently and effectively into production We won’t have architectures and infrastructure required to handle the expanding number and sophistication of use cases We won’t be able to plan, implement, evaluate and scale out in an agile and strategic way We won’t be able to improve safety and productivity

10. Which topics would you like to learn more from a Dell Technologies representative?

Simplifying and automating data collection at every stage of the production cycle Integrating new edge infrastructure easily with existing brownfields and new manufacturing and control systems Scaling edge solutions to advance manufacturing outcomes across local, regional, and global operations Understanding the full breadth of consumption-based services options