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This is my 2,500th post. I began this blog in 2003 as an experiment with a new form using one of the original blogging platforms, developed by Dave Winer, called Radio Userland. The blog was Gary Mintchell's Radio Weblog. The sales people at Automation World wanted to...
IOTech Edge XRT to support Microsoft Azure Sphere
Another example of industrial technology companies working with Microsoft Azure. The Cloud race is heated. IOTech, the edge software company, announced the launch and availability of Edge XRT, its time-critical edge platform for Microsoft Azure...
Andrew Ng of Landing AI on Building Vision AI Project
The new A3 organization (motion/vision/robotic associations) held its annual show virtually over five days this week. I was busy, but I did tune in for some keynotes and panel discussions. I also browsed the trade show. The platforms are getting better all the time. I...
IIC White Papers Survey Information Models and Digital Transformation
Here are announcements from the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) regarding two white papers released. One deals with IioT Models and the other with innovation processes of digital transformation. A lot of thinking went into these. The Industrial Internet...
Collaboration Brings Predictive Maintenance for Planning, Prediction, Prevention of Performance Issues
What do you do when you want to bring the latest IoT, Digital Twin, data analysis to legacy equipment that is still producing in your plant? This announcement just came my way to answer the question. Getting past my particular hang-up on predictive maintenance, there...
The Open Group OSDU Forum Launches the OSDU Data Platform Mercury Release
Open Source, standards-based data platform to stimulate innovation, industrialize data management, and reduce time to market for new solutions in the energy industry. Readers here know The Open Group perhaps mainly through the Open Process Automation Forum. But this...
Powerful Electric Vacuum Gripper for Heavy-Duty Palletizing Applications
What news I receive that isn’t related to software or networking seems to be about collaborative robots. Every time I think that there can’t be anything new in grippers, here comes another announcement. Check this from OnRobot. Large, unwieldy bags of dog food,...
Google Funds Linux Kernel Developers to Focus Exclusively on Security
As our world in manufacturing technology moves ever more quickly into software, open-source software becomes more prominent. This news is significant given funding from Google and the amount of work going on at the Linux Foundation that is benefiting manufacturing....
Coalition Addresses Manufacturing Skills Gap with Robotics and Automation Apprenticeship Programs
My grandfather influenced me in the direction of manufacturing through his stories of life. He left high school at the urging of his step-father to apprentice as a machinist at the Monarch Machine Tool Co. and then worked up to production superintendent at a GM plant....
$30M Financing To Scale AI-powered Robotic Programming
The superlatives and hyperbole in this press release masked a good idea—bringing robotic programming into the 21stCentury. “Pioneering the next frontier of manufacturing through a combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and industrial robotics,” proclaims the...
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