PAS Announces Investment to Fuel Its Industrial Control System Cybersecurity Business
Keep watching the cybersecurity space for more action. Already this week, I wrote about two different approaches to industrial cybersecurity. Here is the story of an investment so that a company with history can pivot and go deeper into this market segment. PAS has...
Are We Ready For Time Sensitive Networking (TSN)? Belden Is.
Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) will be the most important addition to Ethernet and networking since WiFi. The standard has not yet been adopted, but it is close. So Belden is jumping into the fray early with a “TSN ready” product. While I’m in Hannover in a couple of...
Research Reveals Real Company Benefits From Internet of Things
I received report recently from Altizon (www.altizon.com). It is an interesting look at some Industrial Internet of Things implementations. The distribution of projects was (out of 62 companies reporting): • Condition based maintenance 30 • Productivity improvement 62...
Industrial Cyber Security Becomes Increasingly Important
Cyber Security is always the “elephant in the room” at Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Industrial Control Systems (ICS) conferences. The latest edition of the ARC Industry Forum in Orlando featured many cyber security firms. Most were monitoring network...
Robots Rock at Automate
Automate is the biennial trade show featuring robots, vision, and motion control technology and products. It is sponsored by the Association for Advancing Automation. I wrote about it Wednesday discussing statistics about robots and jobs. Even though I was deeply...
Manufacturing Jobs In America-Part 2
Manufacturing jobs—will they be people or robots? Whenever I am presented with an either/or I tend to think why not both or neither. Four choices, not two. In this case, three choices since neither means no manufacturing. And every country on God’s good Earth wants...
A Stunner: ABB Acquires B+R Automation Strengthening It In Machine Automation
Wow, this one surprised me, although I've been pondering the automation landscape for a long time. There are two things. One is that you never know when the owners of a "mittlestand" type of company are ready to sell. The other is that ABB has been aggressively...
Manufacturing in America
Here we go again—who’s winning the war for manufacturing jobs? Man or machine? Human or robot? John Henry, the steel-driving man, or the steam machine? Claire Cain Miller wrote the usual type of manufacturing article for The New York Times with the usual click-bait...
Manufacturing Thought Leadership Summit Discusses Digitalization and Innovation
Manufacturing in America—an event bringing together vendors, academia, end users of controls and automation. Siemens Industry, collaborating with its local distributor Electro-Matic, held a trade show/seminar series/thought leadership summit at the Marriott...
Standards and Interoperability–OPC UA and CCOM Podcast 161
I discuss the importance of interoperability of applications and the role of standards--specifically OPC UA and CCOM, an asset information standard from MIMOSA. I also throw in a description of students I met who compete in FIRST Robotics and a tip for cultivating...