Why and How
Seth Godin asks more questions. He shares my passion for moving beyond the industrial organization of education into something more useful for the students—and also more inclusive of some who are ignored by the system that rewards memorizing and sitting quietly. My...
Context-Driven MRO Optimization for Enterprises
AI Agents (aka AgenticAI) continue to find their way into the news. At least we are finding some reality amongst all the AI hype. This news concerns improving MRO operations. [All hyperbole from the press release.] Verusen launched its groundbreaking Explainability AI...
Off-The-Shelf Palletizing Solution
Perhaps the final news coming my way from Automate 2025 and again robotic-oriented, this news concerns release of an off-the-shelf palletizing solution, said to be the first in North America. Doig Corp. Developed Pallet EZ with OnRobot and its D:PLOY platform. Unlike...
Siemens introduces AI agents for industrial automation
Finishing Agent Week at The Manufacturing Connection with this news from Siemens introducing agents for automation on its Xcelerator platform They claim up to 50% increase in productivity. I guess this would involve productivity across five disciplines detailed below....
Universal Robots Increases Cobot Speed
More news from Automate. Most of the news has been robotics. This piece reports on Universal Robots introduction of its fastest Cobot, the UR15. Looks like there is still room for improvement in this technology area. They say shipping is to begin in June 2025. The...
Edge Orchestration on Next-Generation IoT Connectivity Platform
Apparently it’s still all happening at the Edge (apologies to Paul Simon’s Zoo). This concept has always somewhat puzzled me given that I began implementing computers on the factory floor in the mid-80s to collect, sort, and publish manufacturing data. I guess just...
Stochastic Parrot
Moira Gunn hosted a linguistics professor called Dr. Emily Bender on her podcast Tech Nation. Bender had released a book with Dr. Alex Hannah, The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want. My interest was piqued when they mentioned a 2021...
Cybord’s Visual AI Solution to Be Integrated with Siemens’ Opcenter MES
Most of the interesting developments for the past several years have been in software. But not in the MES area that I began my software career working with. The companions to software have been security and artificial intelligence (AI). The AI component assumes many...
BitSeek Introduces First Full-Stack Decentralized AI Infrastructure for Web3 AI
Still more AI news. I guess you might as well buckle-up and enjoy the ride. I remember many other memes that journalists love to perpetuate. I’m not saying there is no value to AI in its many various guises, but it is far from living up to its hype, if indeed it ever...
AI Agents to Reimagine Security Awareness Training and Provide Instant Board-Ready Data Insights
Like I noted the other day, LLMs are so past tense. It’s all about Agents for marketing hype now. This release notes the release of “true” AI agents from a company called Abnormal AI. This relates to email security—which sounds like an oxymoron. These marketers do not...
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