Encouraging Women To Pursue Technical Work
I meant to post this Friday on the actual International Women’s Day, but since it is not an actual anniversary day, I guess missing by the weekend is OK. Back in the 60s in my freshman engineering class, there were 700 total students. Seven were women. Plus, almost...
ABB and Dassault Systèmes Partnership Unleashes Digital Twins
Yesterday I tweeted ABB Chief Digital Officer Guido Jauret’s keynote at ABB Customer World that included the digital roadmap ABB is on including digital twin technology with a partnership with Dassault Systèmes. Then I realized I have not put the news on the blog....
ABB Reveals Future Course at ABB Customer World
ABB Customer World began Monday, but keynotes began Tuesday. Uli Spiesshofer, ABB CEO, described a renewed and refocused business model. ABB is all in for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and digitalization with ABB Ability, says Spiesshofer. ABB Ability is...
Practitioner’s Guide for Assessing the Maturity of IoT System Security
I just had an opportunity to talk Industrial cybersecurity with two leaders of The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) (now incorporating OpenFog) who gave an overview of the new Security Maturity Model (SMM) Practitioner’s Guide. This document provides detailed...
Podcast 185 Beyond IIoT
Jim Collins, writing in Good To Great, "When used right--when linked to a simple, clear, and coherent concept rooted in deep understanding--technology is an essential driver in accelerating forward momentum. But when used wrong--when grasped as an easy solution,...
Joint Venture Creates Sensia, Oil and Gas Industry Integrated Automation Solutions Provider
Rockwell Automation has been busy since its rejection of a take over offer by Emerson some 15 months ago—something that sent its stock price into a bit of a dive. It made a major investment in PTC in order to have some say and a close relationship to its Internet of...
Chip Enhances Robotics Platform
More news filtering out of Barcelona and the Mobile World Conference. Someday, maybe I’ll make it there. Lots of news. This one about enhancing robotics. In this announcement, Qualcomm has launched Qualcomm Robotics RB3 Platform. The platform is the company’s first...
Last of ARC Industry Forum Interview Notes
ARC’s annual Industry Forum gathering provided an opportunity rare these days of meeting with a wide variety of people and companies. Today’s post summarizes most of the rest of information gathered not previously published. Interestingly, IIoT was not a major theme....
Much Is Happening At The Edge
The world is in Barcelona at the Mobile World Conference (except for me). But that’s OK, I’m seeing plenty of news. Much of it relates to the Edge. And as 5G heats up, expect that to emphasize compute at the edge even further. (Talk of 6G is best left for politicians...
Exercise the Curiosity Muscle for Personal Success
A team developing a Web application named itself Curious George team. You know, the mischievous monkey who was adopted by The Man in the Yellow Hat. Curiosity defined its personality. I thought, "How cool is that?" A constant reminder to work that particular muscle....