Schneider Electric Software Boosts Asset Performance, New Pricing Model, and Cloud Offering
Schneider Electric Software boosts Asset Performance, pricing model, and cloud offering. They called it a Schneider Electric Software Innovation Summit in San Antonio a couple of weeks ago. But as we know, that part of Schneider Electric is moving over to the new...
Industrial Internet Consortium Gaining Momentum With Partners and Testbed
The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has been incredibly active over the past month. While I’ve been traveling, news releases and interview opportunities have been pouring in. In brief: IIC and Avnu Alliance Liaison IIC and the EdgeX Foundry Announce Liaison IIC...
Podcast 167 SCADA and the Internet of Things
I have recorded another in my series of occasional podcasts. This one begins with the Ignition Community Conference at Inductive Automation in Folsom, California last month. What is SCADA? What is the Internet of Things. I keep puzzling out these things and the...
The Future of Farming with Internet of Things
We need to feed an ever increasing global population. One major problem concerns loss of good farmland to urban development. AeroFarms is an agriculture start up leveraging the latest of ag science along with technologies such as Internet of Things with Dell...
Dell Technologies Unveils New IoT Strategy, Division and Solutions to Accelerate Customer Adoption
Dell Technologies has moved its Internet of Things initiative from what was almost a “skunk works” group to division status. Michael Dell, CEO, Jeremy Burton, CMO, and Ray O’Farrell, VMware CTO and GM of the new division all spoke to a large group of international...
For National Manufacturing Day A Story Of Lean Manufacturing Success
Companies are adopting Lean manufacturing with increasing frequency. And that is a good thing. A Lean culture is people-friendly, not to mention profit friendly. And thus the story of a GE Brilliant Factory award winning plant. GE has around 400 manufacturing...
Interactive Plant Environment Immersive Training Facility
Part of the media / analyst program at Emerson Global User Exchange 2017 was a tour of a manufacturing facility and state-of-the-art (or beyond) training center. The Shakopee, MN facility includes final assembly of pressure sensors, product design (which we didn’t...
People Are The Key to Digital Transformation According to Emerson
The era of improving plant performance and profitability through efficiency—that is by cutting costs—is over. So stated Emerson Automation Solutions executive president Mike Train while kicking off the 2017 edition of Emerson Global Users Exchange in Minneapolis. “The...
Wireless Sensor Network Success Story
Remember the wireless sensor network "wars" from ten years ago, or so? Harry Sim left Honeywell Process to head up a new endeavor of Cypress Semiconductor to exploit these networks in a variety of different environments. I told him at the time that I thought he had a...
Recognizing Digital Transformation Does Not Equate To Achieving It
Two research studies have crossed my inbox recently regarding management knowledge of and actions toward Digital Transformation and the Industrial Internet of Things. Suffice to say that there is a disconnect. Get smart: Humans have perceived for millennia the...
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