Voice AI Company Deepgram Collaborates With AWS and Cloudflare
Voice AI news comes to me only through Deepgram, although my tech podcasters update all the consumer news and failings of Alexa, Siri, and other Voice AI consumer applications. Deepgram actually provides a platform for developers to add the technology into their...
Rockwell Automation Smart Manufacturing Report
The thing I find most amazing lies in the first teaser bullet point—only 61% plan an AI adoption. There are many flavors of AI. Many already exist in their plants. Maybe “leaders” questioned are not aware of all that? Or do they just not know how to proceed? Or they...
Rubrik Unveils Agent Rewind For When AI Agents Go Awry
AI and AI Agents continue to lead the industrial technology news. This even though AI has been embedded within industrial technology for decades. Recently agents have been a hot topic. While on the one hand, I’m sure this technology will be beneficial, I’m less than...
Technology Alternatives
I have written about alternative technologies several times over the past 20 years. I’ve speculated about the power of Raspberry Pi for various control projects. Open source and standards-based programming tools. Some projects have become public using alternatives to...
Podcast: Intelligent Application of Technology
I've released a new podcast which you can also see on YouTube. While there, check out my interview with Inductive Automation's Chief Product Evangelist Travis Cox. When I set initial editorial direction for Automation World, I was focused on exploring the Intelligent...
Another Manufacturing Investment Announcement
I’ve become a bit cynical about all the investment announcements by companies currying political favor (Hi, Tim Cook) wondering if these are merely publicity events. We have seen a number of big announcements in the past that have not paid off in actual manufacturing....
Death of US Automotive Manufacturing Debunked
Mark Twain is one of the most famous people to be the subject of a death hoax. In his case, the newspapers were just careless. This is when he uttered his famous quote, "The report of my death was an exaggeration." Perhaps the death of manufacturing in America...
Foxit Releases Updated Document Workflows and MCP Hosting
Foxit is a document management developer. It tries to give Adobe a run for their money in the pdf document management environment. Their web-first and AI-powered designs for documents, e-signatures, and the like appear powerful. I used it for a time and am using the...
Skills or Education
I saw an article about jobs in The New York Times (it was long enough ago that I’ve lost the link). It started with the premise College graduates, on the other hand, often do not have the right skills to be successful on a factory floor. I find that a completely bogus...
CEOs Want Company to Adopt AI, Do They Get It?
The New York Times this morning published an article about CEOs wanting their companies to adopt AI. Reminds me of several times over the past 25 years of my career. CEOs read an article maybe from major media or TV about a new technology. Ah, that’ll give us an edge,...
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