Yokogawa Launches OpreX Plant Stewardship
Catching up on some older news items from earlier this month. This news from Yokogawa shows how process automation companies have had to expand their offerings and problem sets to solve in this era of process automation and control market maturity. This new product is...
From a small impulse to a world of motion Festo’s inspiring innovation journey
A highlight of any trip to a trade fair in Germany was always the Festo stand. They turn engineers loose to build some incredible motion displays. This year at Hannover they constructed an “Incredible Machine.” The Festo Story It all began 100 years ago in a workshop...
Optimized Energy Savings From Innovative Standards
While I am on a standards reporting kick, this news reflects the growing collaboration among formerly competitive standards development organizations. I wrote recently about how OPAF is actively taking an end user view into standards collaboration and rationalization....
Digital Twin Consortium Publishes Spatially Intelligent Digital Twin Capabilities and Characteristics
I have mixed feelings toward standards organizations and consortia. Some engineers use their work to build systems. I’m never sure what the final benefit is. Some have built technology in everyday use—OPC, ODVA, FieldComm (HART, FDT), Profinet. Some publish papers...
Flexxbotics Unveils Latest Release of FlexxCORE with Capabilities for Multi-Machine Robotic Automation
People used to (actually, still do) respond to my answer about what I cover as automation, “Oh, robots.” And I’d say, “Yes, that, too.” The robot market was pretty stagnant for quite a time until the cobot flurry from Denmark. Then, quiet again for the most part....
Rubrik Introduces new Cyber Resilient Solution with Google Cloud
Keeping track of the many changes within the cybersecurity solution ecosystem takes more time than I can devote. I’m glad my old colleague Greg Hale made that his focus. Rubrik first came to my attention just a couple of months ago. They did get a mention in a post...
Foundation Engineering General Intelligence (EGI) Launched
The media relations person found me somehow tempting with this teaser: Converting natural language into code – Transform vague or unstructured instructions into precise, actionable code through AI-driven natural language processing. Enhancing automation, accuracy, and...
The Open Process Automation Forum Continues Advancement
The Open Group Open Process Automation Forum (OPAF) provides annual updates at a forum in Orlando in February. I missed that meeting, however recently receiving an update from Aneil Ali, The Open Group OPAF Director. OPAF members have worked diligently for years...
Agentic AI, SaaS, Community—The Aras Community Gathering
The Aras ACE2025 Community Event in Boston closed two weeks ago. It has taken me that long to wrap my head around everything I learned. Normally there are many really important-sounding words that sound so enlightening at the time, yet when I sit to write I find no...
Partnership Improves MRO For Data-Driven Solutions
Many years ago in a galaxy far away, I actually sold an MRO software solution to one of my clients. Fortunately, I left that position to become a senior editor at Control Engineering magazine never learning how it all worked out. This news concerns a partnership...
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