Analytics and AI Software Helps Optimize Operations
The idea that manufacturing and production enterprises make use of only a small fraction of the data it has accumulated apparently become common knowledge. ABB cites this as the driver for a new software platform called ABB Ability Genix Industrial Analytics and AI...
Resilience A Priority in Global Supply Chains—McKinsey
I love irony. No sooner had I discussed with a colleague about the time I worked for a couple of McKinsey alums than I received an email promoting a new study undertaken by, you guessed it, McKinsey. Actually the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI). The paper’s authors...
‘Rethink Data’ Report Reveals That 68% Of Data Available To Businesses Goes Unleveraged
I first started hearing seriously about data ops last year at a couple of IT conferences. Then a group of former Kepware executives founded High Byte to point data ops specifically to the manufacturing industry. I told them I thought they had something there. A...
Virtual Trade Show and Conference
This week I am attending the Festo Virtual Trade Show and Conference . The website provider is the same one as the Danish company I "toured" last week. It is similar to a concept I saw 20 years ago, but modern technology and design have made the experience very good....
Podcast Passion for Teaching Thinking
Maurice Ashley immigrated to a tough part of New York City from Jamaica and later worked diligently to become the first African-American chess grandmaster. Later, he became a teacher of chess to inner city youth. His passion for teaching shines strongly in his...
White Paper Discusses Digital Transformation in Industry
Guidance to help organizations achieve better businesses outcomes White papers can be an excellent learning tool. I’ve told marketing people for years that they should write these instead of all the overtly sales-y stuff they put out. Build trust and a sense of...
The Cobot “Virtual” Expo
Organizations and companies have been exploring how to do a virtual trade show for more than 20 years. I can remember the early efforts…and shudder. However, we now have a “witch’s brew” of pandemic, increasing bandwidth, improved interactive graphics, browser...
Return From Covid
It almost sounds like a '50s SciFi movie. For a couple of months into the Covid pandemic, my inbox collected a steady stream of press releases about what this or that company was doing to either fight the coronavirus or prepare workplaces and workforces for the return...
Add Real-time Networks to the Smallest PC-based Devices
Compute platforms are achieving incredible power in very small form factors. I’ve been contemplating where we could go with industrial applications built on Raspberry Pi. Then I saw this note from Hilscher. This is the world where that company plays. Here is a...
Modular OT Cybersecurity Solution
It's fascinating to watch PAS Global over the years build on its incumbent technology and expand into new areas of market needs. A few years ago the company made a substantial investment in people and technology development entering the cybersecurity market. By...
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