The factory is quickly becoming a "mixed use" computing environment. The PC-centric period is winding down. Mobile devices are rapidly gaining the largest share of the client computing power. Applications (content) will be delivered to users and devices with relevance to their location, skill set and the events occurring around them. ACP, Alpharetta, GA. is the first to market with "complete" mobile computing solution which fills the needs of mobile users in the factory - "Relevance".

1. Mobile Devices
will hit the Factory Floor
Jim Pinto
Technology Futurist
Presented Sep 11, 2013

2. Accelerating Future
 The future is coming fast
 Technology acceleration taking
twists and turns
 Leadership needs agility
 Being competitive demands
change

3. Paradigm Shift

4. Digital Technology Shift
 PC to Thin-clients
 Tethered to mobile devices
 Wired to wireless connectivity
 Client-server to cloud-based
 Centralized to Distributed
 Industrial Internet
 Machine-to-machine (M2M)

5. Factory Computing

6. Factory Floor Computing
 Becoming "mixed use" computing environment
 Mobile devices rapidly gaining largest share of
the client computing power

7. Post-PC Era
 PC-centric winding down
 Thin-client computing
delivers vastly improved
productivity at lower cost
 Information and displays
accessed from anywhere
with smart-phones or tablets
 Widespread security threats

8. The State of PCs
Source: Gartner, IDC, Enders

9. Security – Primary Issue
 Post Stuxnet awareness
 External & Internal virus insert
 PC USB ports primary problem
 Wireless creates new access

10. Tablets Overtaking PCs
Source: Gartner, IDC, Enders

11. Mobile Devices
 Exploding commercial
use
 Reduced costs
 More functions
 Improved operating
efficiency
 Boosts productivity
 Increased throughput

12. Fool-proof Security
 Mobile Devices have
Embedded IP-cameras
 Rear-facing camera disabled
 Image-recognition before
access
 Device is wiped if lost or stolen

13. Fundamental Change in Use
 PC Internet
 2012 350 million PCs sold
 Shared or Used at work
 Semi-portable (Laptops)
 Web & websearch
 Mobile Internet
 Personal
 Taken everywhere
 Web, websearch, Apps,
Social, Location, Service,
Integration, Prediction,
APIs, Image-recognition,
Contactless transactions,
data exchange

14. Fundamental Change in Scale
 PC Industry
 2012 350 million PCs sold
 1.6 Billion in Use
 Replaced every 4-5 years
 Shared
 Mobile Industry
 1.7 Billion sold in 2012
 3.2 Billion mobile users
 Replaced every 2 years
 One per person (BYOD)

15. The Future is Mobile
Source: Gartner, IDC, Enders

16. Tablets in 2013
 Over 200m in 2013
 Driven by size & price
 Flood of cheap Chinese
Androids
 Prices under $150

17. Business Move to Mobile
 Google buys
Motorola $ 12.5
Billion
 Microsoft buys Nokia
$ 7.2 Billion

18. Fast Changing World
 Mobile computing is the
future
 Tablets outselling Desktop
PCs & notebooks
combined
 Driven by the personal use
- creating mind-share all
types of users
 Mobile phones and tablet
based computing driven
into work environments

19. Fundamental Change
 Internet & Mobile world
merging
 Industrial world driven by
Productivity
 Tablets are accelerating
change

20. Needs-based Information
 Old : Data recorded –
but not used
 New : Information
when and where
needed
 Relevant information

21. Adaptive Mobile
Computing
 Applications (content) will
be delivered to users and
devices with relevance to
their location, skill set and
the events occurring
around them

22. Relevant Information
 Organize applications,
data, and users
 Information delivered to
users based on login
credentials, location, or
specific events
 Operators react and
solve problems from
virtually anywhere.

23. Relevant Info Delivery

24.  Information
 Location
 Job
 Experience
 Availability
 Diagnostics

25.  ACP is first to market with "complete"
mobile computing solution
 Addresses needs of mobile users in
Factory
 Leverages geo-positioning and scanning
 Resolve location and deliver relevant
content.

26. Breakthrough Software
By
Automation Control Products,
Alpharetta, GA
Release: February 2014

27.  Paradigm Shift
 Post-PC Era
 Wireless Everywhere
 Mobile Devices
 The Cloud
 M2M
 Industrial Internet
 Mobile Devices in the Factory
Pinto's Pointers

28. Related Links
 Mobile Devices in Automation:
http://www.jimpinto.com/writings/mobiledevices.html
 Post-PC Era:
http://www.jimpinto.com/enews/22feb2013.html#5
 Industrial Automation and the Cloud:
http://www.jimpinto.com/writings/indautocloud.html
 Automation Internet of Things:
http://www.jimpinto.com/writings/automationiot.html
 Automation Infotech
Futures:http://www.jimpinto.com/writings/infotechfutures.html
 JimPinto.com:
http://JimPinto.com e-mail: jim@jimpinto.com