Tablet Compute For Rugged and Hazardous Areas
Ever since technicians and others wanted to take their iPhones into hazardous areas, technology developer companies have been making compute and communication products specifically for those areas. This news comes from a seemingly unlikely pair—Pepperl+Fuchs and...
Honeywell To Separate Into Three Companies
This corporate reshuffling should not have surprised anyone. Honeywell may be the last of the now “old-fashioned” conglomerates. No one could argue the famous “synergies” justification for keeping these divisions together. In brief from the news release: Honeywell...
Zebra Technologies Expands SymmetryFulfillment Solution
Manufacturing and process automation news has become sparse. News from the warehouse and fulfillment sector continues to grow. These items typically combine software, autonomous mobile robots, communications devices for connected workers, and (of course) a dollop of...
Strategic Partnership to Deliver Visual AI-Powered Technology to SMT Production Lines
You call it “Visual AI”; I call it AI-powered vision systems. Which I find interesting since industrial vision systems have had embedded AI ever since I played with them in the mid-90s. Technology does advance, and AI means something different today. Plus, it, like...
AI-Powered Asset Performance Management
AI contributes at least 50% of the content of news in my area of interest. No surprise that Yokogawa has harnessed some AI expertise for its Asset Performance Management. Yokogawa Electric and UptimeAI announced a strategic agreement aimed at enhancing asset...
ABB introduces AppStudio no-code tool for robot interface programming
No-Code tools appear in many applications. I’ve written about a software company with no-code tools talking with a customer about how easy (on a relative scale, of course) it was to develop new input forms for an added use case. No-code has now invaded the robot...
Foxit and Pax8 Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver Secure PDF and eSignature Solutions
More news from a company I’ve recently learned. Foxit develops document handling solutions based on the PDF format. I am using it instead of Adobe. I’m not a power user, but I find it an attractive interface and quite usable. This news deals with a strategic...
Strategic Edge: A Blueprint for Breakthroughs in Defense Innovation
When I was yet a wee lad, my grandfather told me stories of his days as a production superintendent at a GM plant. I learned about process, flow, how you can never make up for lost production due to downtime. He told me how he reorganized the plant at the beginning of...
Haptikos Emerges From Stealth First Low-Cost Hand Exoskeleton
I’ve been watching developments of robotics and peripherals with anticipation. Engineers continually get closer to mechanisms that can make life so much better for handicapped or aged people. Not to mention extensive use cases in manufacturing. This news concerns a...
Deepgram Empowers Developers From Startups to Global Enterprises to Build Voice AI
[I have two websites where I write blogs. This one started in December, 2003. My other one began in 2012. Across the two sites, this is my 7,000th post.] New companies with new ideas continue to drift into my vision. This news relates to developers and managers who...