Safe and Collaborative Autonomous Mobile Robots
Collaborative describes the latest and most important trend in robots. Even if I was summarily dismissed when I asked that question of the CEO of a robotic arm company at an IT event, I stand by that analysis. Lately Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) news came to my...
Intelligent Sensor Grid Powering Digitized Commerce at the Edge
Successful digitalization requires data. Data, in turn, originates often from sensors. The Industrial Internet of Things runs on this data providing a valuable use case of tying a manufacturing enterprise together from supply chain through customer experience. Mahesh...
Predictive Tool to Improve Human-machine Interactions in Digital Manufacturing
As manufacturing shifts towards smart factories, with interconnected production systems and automation, engineers at the University of Nottingham are leading a £1.9m project to develop a predictive toolkit to optimise productivity and communication between human...
McKinsey Study Finds Huge Gap Between Trying and Applying Digital Manufacturing
Most companies think they lead their Industry 4.0 competitors in AI and robotic technologies. This sounds like Garrison Keillor describing the mythic village of Lake Wobegon, MN where “all the children are above average.” I’m finding increased interest in digital...
Podcast and Multimedia Thoughts On Manufacturing and IoT
I also post thoughts on manufacturing, IoT, and other things that interest me as podcasts and YouTube videos. Here is a list of recent ones. Podcast 177, Hey OT, What Can IT Do for You? Podcast 177 Watch on YouTube Podcast 176, HPE at Hannover 2018 Podcast 176, watch...
GE Digital Ends Not Invented Here Syndrome
GE Digital initiates a huge turnaround in its attitude toward software and Industrial Internet development. GE invested large sums to build a Silicon Valley presence for its software. Hired many engineers. Took its industrial software base up a notch or two with its...
Process Solutions Evolving
Did Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) short-circuit the Open Process Automation work? Inquiring minds wonder. Once again, some news and analysis of a conference that I couldn’t attend—three of these the same week in June. HPS and ExxonMobil sent this release....
Salesforce Another Meeting of IT and OT
Here I go to yet another IT conference to talk convergence and platform. Salesforce invited me to its summer marketing conference in June and promised an interview with a Vice President. I could take my wife out to a good anniversary dinner, visit family, and go to a...
Digitalization and Largest Electric Motor Test Bed Top Siemens Motor News
There are electric motors and then there are electric motors. On my recent trip about an hour south to the Siemens electric motor manufacturing plant in Norwood, OH (a suburb of Cincinnati) I was often thinking about the line from Crocodile Dundee when the main...
Pondering Automation Company Strategies
Rockwell Automation's recent huge investment in PTC for only 8% of the company has sparked a number of thoughts on strategies not only of Rockwell Automation, but also other companies in the market. We're looking not only at Rockwell Automation in this brief analysis,...
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