Yokogawa Joins Open Invention Network as a Community Member
Yokogawa is a company I just can’t figure out. A former CEO and I had several friendly and informative interviews many years ago. But their automation business in America collapsed, although they retain the office outside Houston along with the instrumentation office...
Indurex Launches with a Mission to Advance Safety and Cybersecurity Resilience Across Cyber-Physical Systems
This news came last week. Just as I was contemplating the business model of cybersecurity firms following another acquisition, this news of a new company launch with a unique take on security. This company will be interesting to watch. The news comes from Amsterdam...
Jobs in Manufacturing
Have you who live in the US noticed how the European and Asian automation and control companies have reduced their footprint in America? Not only that, have you noted how (except for Rockwell Automation) the US-based companies increasingly held their conferences...
Mitsubishi Electric Completes Acquisition of Nozomi Networks
I posted news last September that Mitsubishi announced plans to acquire cybersecurity firm Nozomi Networks. That acquisition is now complete. The viability of all these cybersecurity firms as independent businesses has always sparked curiosity in me. The latest press...
Model Context Protocol in Ignition
I touched on this concept reporting from the Ignition Community Conference last September. It’s where I was sitting beside this excitable “influencer” who was overjoyed at the announcement from Inductive Automation that MCP was coming to Ignition sometime in 2026 and...
Real-World Application of AI
I issued a challenge regarding real-world applications of AI. I have a craving to dig beneath the hype I’ve been reading. Applications with built-in artificial intelligence (AI) have existed for decades. You probably are running some—for sure in manufacturing. But...
Bridging the Design-to-Manufacturing Gap with AI-Driven Generative Engineering
I appreciate press releases about AI that include definite use cases rather than just the usual vague “we’ve got AI.” InfinitForm is a company new to me. It uses the popular Co-Pilot form of AI for its Generative Engineering Platform. InfinitForm launched its...
Trump Administration Pushes AI Adoption for Manufacturing
Politicians know only a few things. Just like CEOs, politicians read about artificial intelligence (AI). Neither knows much about it. They absorb the hype and fear the future. President Trump and President Xi of China have developed a competition in science and...
Record Technology Investments Outpace U.S. Manufacturing Workforce Readiness, New Report Finds
Another survey of manufacturing business leaders regarding applying AI in their operations and availability of a skilled workforce to apply it. Revalize, a worldwide leader in CPQ, PLM, and CAD software solutions for manufacturers, released new research around the...
AI Workforce Impact Updated
Vijay Narayan, Business Unit Head, Manufacturing, Logistics, Energy, Utilities at Cognizant, recently spoke with me about what they are seeing in their consulting work with manufacturing and logistics companies. We broached on AI, workforce, and strategy. Cognizant...
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