Honeywell Wireless To Support Next-Gen Cisco Access Points
Suddenly the wireless networking side of IoT connectivity is hitting my radar. Since the culmination of the “wireless wars” of 10 years ago, this technology/market area has settled into supplying usable products. This information came from Honeywell—In short, by...
Software Investments—Looking Beyond the Surface
Rockwell Automation through Blake Moret, chairman and CEO, invested $1 billion in PTC with Moret gaining a seat on the board. The public reason was really to get early information about ThinkWorx, the IIoT product. The investment valued PTC, a company with $1 billion...
Tech Podcast and Numbers
Gary on Manufacturing Podcast 200 has been published. I have been podcasting in a variety of formats since around 2007. Obviously frequency is a problem. After I left magazine publishing, I spent some time figuring which direction to go. This podcast (sponsored by...
Market Research Firm Says Digital Transformation to Drive Adoption of Manufacturing Operations Management Software
'Tis the season—for market research reports. This one again from a firm I don’t know (but quite European centric)—by Transparence Market Research attempts to gauge the size and growth of the Manufacturing Operation Management (MOM) software market. I did not get a...
Motor Drives Increasingly An Enabler of IoT Says Market Intelligence Firm
Just before Thanksgiving, I had the opportunity to talk with Adrian Lloyd, CEO of Interact Analysis. Interact is a new market research and intelligence company composed of industry veterans of other firms. The company researchers perform many more interviews than the...
Ecosystem Collaboration on 5G Distributed Edge Solution for Service Providers
This announcement hits many trends and things you will eventually grow tired of hearing—partnerships, collaboration among companies, ecosystems, Kubernetes, containers, and, yes, 5G. The latter is coming. We just don’t know when and how, yet. Wind River, a leader in...
Software Investments—Looking Beyond the Surface
Rockwell Automation through Blake Moret, chairman and CEO, invested $1 billion in PTC with Moret gaining a seat on the board. The public reason was really to get early information about ThinkWorx, the IIoT product. The investment valued PTC, a company with $1 billion...
The IIoT market is booming—so why are half of all IIoT deployments failing?
Management! OK, the headline came from IHS Markit | Technology, an Informa Tech market analyst company. The answer from me. One of the value adds of analyst firms is to provide market research studies. Where once I received industrial market information from just one...
Project Alvarium from Linux Foundation for Trusted Data
The IoT group that I've been working with for the past few years has been absorbed into the OEM group which is carrying on an expanded function. This blog post from Steve Todd, Dell Technologies Fellow, details the development of data confidence work that has been...
Doing Good—The Other Side of Automation Fair
We sat through two-and-a-half hours of presentations preparing us (writers, thinkers, journalists) for the coming two days of technical meetings. Speakers included the CEO, various vice presidents, and, oh, yes, three teenaged inventors. Do not throw up your hands and...
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