Ryan Spurr

Ryan Spurr is the Director of Manufacturing Strategy at Connection with 20+ years of experience in manufacturing, information technology, and portfolio leadership. He leads the Connection Manufacturing Practice, go-to-market strategy, client engagement, and advisory services focusing on operational technology (OT) and information technology that make manufacturers more digitally excellent.

BLE Is Catching on Fast in Manufacturing—Here Are 3 Reasons Why

February 23, 2022 | Ryan Spurr

Location solutions are nothing new in manufacturing. The most common include manual tracking solutions involving scanners or automated technologies like Passive RFID. But over the years, a new tracking technology…

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Manufacturing in 2022: Not Accelerating Smart Manufacturing? Your Competition Is

December 15, 2021 | Ryan Spurr

Some people will insist on introducing new concepts or rebranded terminology with their 2022 predictions, but let’s be clear: that’s all hype, as little of significance has changed. Don’t get…

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Managing Factory Equipment from Anywhere

December 9, 2021 | Ryan Spurr

Before the pandemic, there was a trend of shifting engineering to a “shared engineering service” model. This was largely driven by the need to attract and retain talent in the…

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What Making Decisions at the Edge Means for Smart Manufacturing

December 2, 2021 | Ryan Spurr

We hear so much about computing moving to the edge. Predictions like 75% of data will be created and processed outside of traditional centralized data centers leave us to wonder what future…

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Edge to Cloud: How Do We Get There from Here?

November 11, 2021 | Ryan Spurr

In industrial automation, we spend a lot of time focused on connecting things at the edge and doing something useful with data. This might include machine-to-machine automation, edge decision making,…

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