Continual Market Development Pays Off For Process Control Supplier
I have known Eddie Habibi, founder and CEO of PAS (now PAS Global) for about 20 years. So I’ve followed the development of his company for that long. There was alarm management, and process safety, and process asset management. And the company grew at a typical pace...
Podcasts–Working Smarter and Intelligent Use of Technology
Ways of organizing a company and organizing work fascinate me. I loved Jason Fried’s book, now almost seven years old, Remote: Office Not Required. Much work can be organized so that a worker does not need to commute to an office. Even in manufacturing we have...
Financial Services Leasing Program For Cobots
Collaborative robots, known as cobots, fill a really nice niche in the overall robot and automation market. Among the first I physically saw were those from Universal Robots. I’ve liked its products from the way they are implemented to the way they are designed....
Software Partnerships Boosts Digital Engineering
Next to acquisitions, partnerships are driving actions among major digital industrial supplier players. With today’s announcement, Aras, who labels itself “the only resilient platform provider for digital industrial applications,” announced a strategic partnership...
A Tablet Computer for Hazardous Environments
When Dell developed an Internet of Things (IoT) group, I began following it. The team developed a gateway compute device, brought together various groups within the company, along with many partners. But the market was evidently not large enough to sustain a group....
20 Metatrends To Blow Your Minds
20 METATRENDS FOR THE ROARING 20S Everybody it seems likes metatrends, megatrends, any-kind-of-trends, especially at the beginning of a calendar year. I think that many of these are good idea stretchers. Whether or not they serve as accurate predictors does not...
Manufacturing Trends to Watch
Despite use of the word disruptive in a significant number of press releases, I expect few, if any, truly disruptive manufacturing technologies. Things simply take some time from conception to adolescence to maturity. Products I've seen that looked disruptive often...
A Decade of Digitalization
I give up. To me, the end of the decade is next year figuring there was not a year 0, then the beginning of the new calendar was year 1 and the end of the first decade was year 10. Oh, well, mainstream media just can’t wait to jump into wrap-up frenzy. So, me, too....
Top Ten Manufacturing Podcast
An email came my way last week notifying me that my podcast, Gary on Manufacturing, had won--no not the Publishers Clearing House millions--a spot in the Top 15 Podcasts in manufacturing. I guess I'll take an honor anywhere I can find one. And "not look a gift horse...
Is the IoT In Danger of Splintering?
I picked this news item up from The Economist Espresso app. For years, technologists have gushed about the promise of the “Internet of Things”, enabling ordinary objects—from kettles to cargo ships—to communicate autonomously with each other. The two essential...
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