Software Investments—Looking Beyond the Surface
Rockwell Automation through Blake Moret, chairman and CEO, invested $1 billion in PTC with Moret gaining a seat on the board. The public reason was really to get early information about ThinkWorx, the IIoT product. The investment valued PTC, a company with $1 billion...
The IIoT market is booming—so why are half of all IIoT deployments failing?
Management! OK, the headline came from IHS Markit | Technology, an Informa Tech market analyst company. The answer from me. One of the value adds of analyst firms is to provide market research studies. Where once I received industrial market information from just one...
Project Alvarium from Linux Foundation for Trusted Data
The IoT group that I've been working with for the past few years has been absorbed into the OEM group which is carrying on an expanded function. This blog post from Steve Todd, Dell Technologies Fellow, details the development of data confidence work that has been...
Doing Good—The Other Side of Automation Fair
We sat through two-and-a-half hours of presentations preparing us (writers, thinkers, journalists) for the coming two days of technical meetings. Speakers included the CEO, various vice presidents, and, oh, yes, three teenaged inventors. Do not throw up your hands and...
Partnerships, Open Connectivity, OT Expertise Highlight Rockwell Automation Perspectives Day
Yesterday was the media/analyst kick-off for the 28th Automation Fair event sponsored by Rockwell Automation. Piecing together information from my 1:1 interviews and presentations to the group, major themes for the week seem to be importance of partnerships, open...
LF Edge New Projects, Members Collaborate at Open Source Edge
The Linux Foundation and its LF Edge project continues to gain momentum. Here are two new open source announcements. In short: “Baetyl” and “Fledge” join LF Edge ranks as newest projects, expands LF Edge’s reach across geographies and industries IOTA Foundation, SAIC...
AVEVA World Conference All About Digital
I'm at the airport with my brain shot from all the (non-digital) information I picked up during the past two days of the AVEVA World conference in Orlando. To be sure, this is the "New" AVEVA. It was formed when the existing engineering and design software company...
Taking a Digital Journey
Keynoters have a tough time with originality these Digital Days with everyone emphasizing Digital Transformation. Steve Lomholt-Thomson, chief revenue officer of AVEVA, took us on a Digital Journey this morning. Setting the tone of the three days of AVEVA World...
Vision Inspection Powered by AI
Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is not necessarily the dystopian technology portrayed in books and movies. Although neither artificial or intelligent, AI can be a powerful tool in the engineer’s kit. Recently Carl Palme of Neurala chatted with me introducing the...
Bloomberg Global Economic Index
Several companies send a variety of economic research data. I appreciate a broad view of what's happening in the world even though we are in a period where many think nations can survive alone (note: check your history; hard to find a time that didn't exist without...
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