NI Expands Global Network to Serve Small Businesses
NI has always served smaller businesses—most of whom do work for big businesses or projects solving interesting engineering problems. This month I received an announcement of NI’s partner network focusing on small-to-medium businesses (SMBs). We must remember that the...
Qualcomm Unveils Purpose-Built 5G Modem Optimized for IIoT
Important news about IoT enabling technologies development. Europe and China are first targeted markets. Seemingly US engineers just don’t jump on new technologies and initiatives as quickly as the rest of the world. Management problem? Note that the supporting quotes...
Plethora of News from Rockwell Automation
I received few news releases from Rockwell Automation for several years. Suddenly I gained a new friend, Jack, who sends something almost every week. It’s good to know that one of the largest control and automation suppliers in North America is still churning out...
Talking Digital Transformation with Rockwell Automation
I have not talked with anyone from Rockwell Automation for months. So, it was time to catch up with Keith Higgins who joined the company within the past couple of years as VP of Digital Transformation leading the software group. As we might expect, digital...
The Converged Edge Explained
Our schedules finally converged. I caught up with Tom Bradicich, PhD, known within Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) as “Dr. Tom,” to learn the latest on the converged edge. Tom is one of the half-dozen or so people I know who can dump so much information on my brain...
Seeq Announces Amazon Web Services Data Integration
Anyone reading this still curious about Microsoft appointing Satya Nadella CEO coming from the Web services division (Azure) or Amazon appointing Andy Jassy CEO coming from Amazon Web Services (AWS)? Those services continue to grow in importance to industrial software...
Secure Zero Touch Kubernetes Orchestration Solution for the Distributed Edge
The action occurs at the edge these days. At least, edge as defined by the IT groups as they reach out toward the plant or factory with networks, compute, and other technologies as IT searches for more and better data to feed their decision-making systems. This...
Red Balloon Security Introduces Embedded Security Solutions
This news release is about three weeks old. The topic is embedded security. This week’s news on a security hack is an entirely different animal. However, protecting our industrial control embedded systems from intrusion and hacking remains a priority. I do realize...
Cobot Welder Delivers Advanced Robot Welding
One of the dirtier applications has come to the cobot world—welding. Here is a smartphone app that interfaces to a Universal Robotics Cobot with an attached Miller welding system to transform it into a welding machine. Hirebotics’ Cobot Welder, Powered by...
ThinkIQ Announces Visualization Tool and Project with CESMII
ThinkIQ introduced itself to me just a couple of months ago, and I set aside some time to talk with an acquaintance from the industrial software market Niels Anderson....
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