ICC 2026 Tickets Available Now
Here’s a chance to meet me and share your thoughts about what I should really be writing about. Plus getting the latest updates from Inductive Automation and its partners. The Ignition Community Conference, ICC2026, will be held again in Sacramento September 22-24....
Secure Industrial Communication Depends on Deployment as well as Protocols
This news release falls clearly into the category of Duh!!! Human social engineering and humans gaining unauthorized access while serving as contractors and the like have long been known to be a cybersecurity risk. But, I’m happy to note that an august group has...
Podcast–Aras Community Event 2026–Rise of Agents
I've posted a podcast to both my podcast channel (subscribe on any podcast app) and my YouTube channel. A first summary of my three days with the Aras community in Miami. These PLM events always return me to the time when I did this sort of work--manually. Then my...
OPSWAT and Emerson to Strengthen Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure Operators
Cybersecurity news will not wither during my lifetime. I think that is a safe prediction. Especially given all the hype around Anthropic’s latest news velocity releases. Not enough media pays attention to potential huge problems with attacking critical infrastructure....
AI-ready at the Edge – Siemens Industrial Automation DataCenter with AI computing power and advanced cybersecurity
It had to happen. An industrial-strength data center designed for the industrial edge. From Siemens, of course. They’re unveiling at Hannover next week. I will unfortunately not be in Hannover next week. I need funding to cover the expense, and all my past contacts...
Do We Really Need To Know?
Most of the time this blog traces new technologies or products. Sometimes I come across thinking about current events that troubles me. These are things I’d like to pass on as thought experiments for you. Or perhaps bring to realization something you just pass by. One...
Smart Manufacturing Second Take With No AI
I wrote (sort of) a long post Friday defining strategy and practice definitions of Smart Manufacturing. I used Claude.ai to research. I also wanted to see what Claude would write if I told it to put all the research together in an essay in the style of The...
Smart Manufacturing: A System of Systems, a Holarchy of Value
During a recent conversation, the concept of the definition of Smart Manufacturing was broached. I began to think about just what is Smart Manufacturing. I hoped it wasn’t like Clark Griswald’s definition of Christmas talking with Ruby Sue (National Lampoon’s...
Cal Newport On Why AI Isn’t Making It Easier
Cal Newport, Computer Science PhD and Professor at Georgetown University, explains AI, LLMs, and the like better than anyone else I follow. His newsletter from last month, Why Hasn’t AI Made Work Easier?, explains some of the reports we’ve begun hearing through the...
Benedict Evans on OpenAI Business
I have cued up a couple of analyses on AI. Referring to Om Malik’s observation about generating news velocity, it’s hard to keep up. But the two I have remain relevant. The first from an analyst I’ve followed for many years, Benedict Evans, End of Network Effect essay...
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