Standard of Standards Model For Asset Data
Alan Johnston caught up with me yesterday to update me on progress MIMOSA has made toward updating and adoption of its asset information data and data flow models--described by the Open Industrial Interoperability Ecosystem (OIIE). I had been working with them a few...
Solution for 3D Printing Pure Copper
3D printing proffers the possibility for drastic advances in manufacturing. However combining printing technology with material science holds the key to success. And, every week brings news of advances. Here is one where a company has improved manufacture with pure...
Engineering in the Cloud
What?? Engineering in the Cloud? One of the joys of having been around so long is to see technologies that some said they'd never use become commonplace. When I switched to the "dark side of the force" and landed a job as a sales engineer, my first customer told me...
Rockwell Automation Numbers
I ran into a long-time acquaintance a couple of weeks ago (before the coronavirus impact) who told me he was all-in investing in Rockwell Automation. The stock had been slowly oscillating between the 170s and 210 for some time. He felt it was destined to keep growing...
Hannover Messe Postponed
Hannover Messe postponed to July 13 due to concerns of spreading Coronavirus. World’s largest manufacturing trade show now in the summer.
Collaborative Robot Market Activity
Collaborative and mobile robot developments have piqued my interest in robotics again.
Digitalization or The Practice of Leadership
Signs of common sense begin to pervade the discussion of digitalization and its cousins. Meaning that it’s all about leadership.
Open Manufacturing Platform Expands
I've received a couple of news items about something called the Open Manufacturing Platform (OMP). I have searched in vain for a website--maybe a GitHub or Linux Foundation or something. This is sponsored by Microsoft, so no surprise that it is built on Microsoft...
Achieving a Digital Supply Chain
One of the companies I met with a couple of weeks ago at the Hannover Messe Preview in Germany was SALT Solutions AG and its subsidiary SALT Software GmbH. The company is a systems integrator that also has developed a platform with micro services to bring together its...
Rockwell Automation Adds Computer Technology with Acquisition of ASEM
Rockwell Automation announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Italy-based ASEM, S.p.A., a leading provider of digital automation technologies. ASEM provides a complete range of Industrial PCs (IPCs), Human-Machine Interface (HMI) hardware and software, remote...