Tom Harrop's Blog Posts

Tom is a technology expert with 25+ years of experience in vertical industries including Manufacturing, Communications, Media & Entertainment, Healthcare, Financial Services and Energy. Tom has held multiple senior leadership roles from CIO to CTO and is passionate about digital dashboard design for business insights and smart manufacturing for operational resilience. Tom lives with his family in Northern California.

Rethinking Reliability: How Manufacturers Can Achieve Uptime Excellence
Industry Insights
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Rethinking Reliability: How Manufacturers Can Achieve Uptime Excellence

Why fix what you can predict? Manufacturers are tapping into real-time data, turning potential breakdowns into a well-oiled, competitive advantage.
Manufacturers Have Always Wanted to Achieve Traceability. It’s Finally Within Reach.
Industry Insights
3 Minute Read

Manufacturers Have Always Wanted to Achieve Traceability. It’s Finally Within Reach.

Full traceability enables manufacturers to see every aspect of a product’s lifecycle and understand how each element impacts performance. It’s felt unattainable, until now.
Manufacturers Aren’t Just Talking About Modernizing OT Security Anymore. They’re Doing It.
Industry Insights
3 Minute Read

Manufacturers Aren’t Just Talking About Modernizing OT Security Anymore. They’re Doing It.

It's time for all manufacturing leaders to connect and leverage IT and OT in a unified fight for more secure, efficient operations, from the boardroom to the production line, and everywhere in between.
Future-Proofing Resilience: How Manufacturers Are Navigating Growing Pains of IT/OT Convergence
Industries
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Future-Proofing Resilience: How Manufacturers Are Navigating Growing Pains of IT/OT Convergence

As manufacturing grapples with digitization challenges, Splunker Tom Harrop dives into how the manufacturing industry is future-proofing resilience.