Industrial IoT Suppliers From a Different Point of View
I have just returned from a weekend in Eastern Ohio at a youth soccer tournament. You learn a lot about human nature--your own as well as others--when you're in a competitive tightly compressed space. The games I refereed had coaches and parents carrying exhuberance...
GE Digital Updates IIoT Software
I guess I did attend the last GE software conference Minds + Machines. However, the reconstituted and independent GE Digital recently held a user conference where it announced a number of upgrades to its IIoT software. These are firmly within the current trends of...
Personal Brand Building with Digital Transformation–Emerson Exchange
Emerson Global User Exchange brings thousands of geeks together to, well, exchange ideas. Most relate to technology and its applications. Some relate to personal growth and development. So far, I’ve captured the growing importance of Digital Transformation—both...
Rockwell Automation Acquires Another Systems Integration Firm
I interrupt my writing from last week’s event to bring some interesting news. The last time I was able to meet with a Rockwell Automation executive and ask questions, I asked about the impact of acquiring Maverick Technologies on Rockwell’s relationships with...
Presentation Skills for Career Success–Emerson Exchange
Presentations abound at Emerson Global Users Exchange. Attendees can choose to take deep technical dives into Emerson products, get overviews and trends of technology and the industry, and even personal development. Yes, there was even a 6 am fitness time with either...
Where’s The Edge with IIoT–Emerson Exchange
Presentations abound at Emerson Global Users Exchange. Attendees can choose to take deep technical dives into Emerson products, get overviews and trends of technology and the industry, and even personal development. Yes, there was even a 6 am fitness time with either...
HighByte – A New Company Unveiled for DataOps
DataOps—a phrase I had not heard before. Now I know. Last week while I was in California I ran into John Harrington, who along with other former Kepware leaders Tony Paine and Torey Penrod-Cambra, had left Kepware following its acquisition by PTC to found a new...
Emerson Automation Steps Up Digital Transformation Game
Everyone touts Digital Transformation lately. Emerson Automation has been patiently building a Digital Transformation practice through acquisition and development. Executives announced advances at this year’s edition of Emerson Global Users Exchange—my second stop of...
Aligning Sales and Manufacturing Operations
Digitally integrating and aligning manufacturing operations with the rest of the enterprise has been an elusive goal for perhaps 20 years. It was a promise of ERP. Easy to say; hard to accomplish. Then we went through all the IT/OT stuff. Here's another take--aligning...
High Energy Exhibited At Manufacturing Software User Conference
This week saw the annual incarnation of the Ignition Community Conference from Inductive Automation in Folsom, CA focused on application of manufacturing software. The level of user conversations and idea exchanges is higher than anywhere else I attend. I entered the...