Leader With Soul—a Manifesto Book Review
"If you have to ask, you don't have it." -- Popular response to people asking what is soul during the rise of "soul music" in the late 60s. OK, where is this going, you may be asking. The last book I read is, "Awakening A Leader‘s Soul: Learnings through Immortal...
Purchasing Manager’s Index Still Looking Strong
We have a new manufacturing sector economic activity report from the Institute for Supply Management—The Purchasing Manager’s Index—showing continued solid growth in the segment. I also received an analysis from PwC’s Bobby Bono. His remarks are interesting including...
Workbook and Practical Advice for Building the Internet of Things
Building upon interest and momentum from his last book, “Building the Internet of Things”, Maciej Kranzthe New York Times bestselling author and vice president of strategic innovation at Cisco, announced the release of “Building the Internet of Things: A Project...
Digital Transformation Leads To Digital Reinvention
“Digital Transformation is so last year. While many legacy companies around the world are still grappling with “transforming” their digital ecosystems, the true leaders are already on to next hot topic: Digital Transformation 2.0. We’ll call it ‘Digital Reinvention.’...
HMI SCADA Supplier Launches Enterprise Integrator Program
HMI SCADA as a technology product continues to grow and adapt in this Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) world. Once a control room technology, new iterations make it a natural for the Internet of Things. Steve Hechtman, founder of Inductive Automation, approached...
Digital Twins and Internet of Things Gary on YouTube
Some people have told me that they prefer the YouTube versions of my podcasts. Not sure why. Here is the latest one. 173-Digital Twins and the Internet of Things. Discussing trips to San Diego and the Industry of Things World event (Internet of Things, Mindsphere from...
End-to-end IoT sensor system adds user-defined customization
One of the many dreams spurring development of the Industrial IoT was the ability to easily slap sensors around a plant on units and equipment and areas that would report to a database with attached dashboards. The resulting information and visualization would give...
Time Sensitive Networking or TSN Now Embedded In a Product
Time Sensitive Networking, or TSN, extends and amplifies standard Ethernet as defined by the IEEE. The complete suite of specifications lacks a couple of areas, yet, but it is complete enough to begin using. NI (National Instruments) has been an early proponent of the...
National Cybersecurity Wars Require IoT Supplier Response
Critical infrastructure control systems have been under cyber attack for years. Need we mention Stuxnet, the attack that brought the issue to the public eye? Pressure has been mounting on controls, automation, and IoT suppliers to protect a nation’s assets. Siemens...
IIoT It’s All About Data—Machine-Learning Data Discovery
Manufacturing technology professionals have been working with data of many types for years. Our sensors, instrumentation, and control systems yield terabytes of data. Then we bury them in historians or other databases on servers we know not where. Companies are...