HighByte Expands Industrial Connectivity from Microsoft Azure IoT Edge to Azure Digital Twins
Many industrial software companies have been connecting with Microsoft Azure services. This release from HighByte reveals its latest version expanding connectivity. HighByte announced the release of HighByte Intelligence Hub version 2.5 that expands connectivity to...
New IT/OT Features Increase Visibility, Security and Control
Cybersecurity news continues to lead inputs to my inbox. Tenable has much news coming. This one has been waiting for a while for me to clear a lot of other news. This is an update to Tenable.ot to v3.14. Four new capabilities in Tenable.ot 1. Deeper coverage of...
Collaboration For Large-Scale Green Hydrogen Production
The large process automation suppliers are racing for leadership in green hydrogen production. You could search hydrogen on the blog to see the latest news. This one updates a new initiative by ABB Ventures. ABB and Hydrogen Optimized announced a collaboration that...
Advanced Physical Layer Project Successfully Completed
Advanced Physical Layer (APL) for Ethernet generated much hype for quite some time. Product may be coming your way before too long. After almost 4 years of close and fruitful collaboration among the four leading standards development organizations, FieldComm Group,...
Learning To See What’s Around Us
Two fish swim together across the pond. They meet an older, wiser fish. He says, “Hello, boys, how’s the water?” The two swim for a bit, then one asks the other, “What’s water?” This story is from a commencement speech given at Kenyon College in 2005 by David Foster...
Ignition Community Conference 2022
With the pandemic mostly in the rearview mirror, Inductive Automation held its Ignition Community Conference 2022 in Folsom, CA Sept. 20-21. ICC 2022 The event was sold out, as usual. Sessions were packed and lively with questions. I didn’t pick up much news from the...
ThinkIQ and CESMII Partner
How much impact do US National Institutes of technology and manufacturing have on the real world of manufacturing? I’ve dealt with several over the past 20 years. They do a lot of work. Sometimes I’m not so sure of the impact. On the other hand, I’ve followed...
Rust Foundation Establishes Security Team
Do you program in Rust? Me neither. I had barely heard of it. I received this news. Valuable if you use Rust. Interesting for any other language to think about security within a language. The Rust Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting and...
Emerson Adds Wind Power Technolgy
Emerson sent me a number of renewable energy technology news releases and a live discussion over the past couple of months. I wrote about hydrogen a couple of months ago. These news items talk about wind power technology. [This is also a good time to promote a new...
Schneider Electric To Complete Acquisition of AVEVA
Financial investors today value software companies more than hardware companies. Notice how long-time industrial companies such as Emerson and Rockwell Automation and Siemens and ABB tout themselves as software companies. Schneider Electric picked up a substantial...
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