Stratus ztC Endurance Platform
I think this is the last of the meetings I had at Automation Fair last month. The team at Stratus discussed the ztC Endurance platform. Stratus is know for high availability, redundant server and compute technology. This new platform enables organizations to run...
Nvent at Automation Fair
A marketing person offered a meeting with Sanu Warrier, Software Product Director at nVent during the recent Automation Fair. I have not kept up with all mergers and acquisitions. NVent is the parent company of Hoffman enclosures and much more. My last update from...
Journalism
I devoured newspapers from about age 12 until early middle age. I quit watching any TV news by 1990. It wasn’t a liberal/conservative thing. It was a reporting/hype thing. Too much idle speculation and opinion. Too little reporting. My news for the past many years has...
Plex Connected Worker at Automation Fair
Anthony Murphy, Vice President and Head of Product Management at Plex, a Rockwell Automation Company, met with me for a bit at the recent Automation Fair. I had toured the show floor captivated by the demo of the connected factory worker. I’ve followed the workflow...
Alienation from Our Work
Have you ever watched a blacksmith or potter or glass-blower at work? I watch with utter fascination. What a magnificent set of skill, knowledge, creativity. When you make something from start to finish like that, there is a little piece of you in that thing. You are...
Gelsinger Out at Intel
I’ve been reading M.G. Siegler for years. Ever since the early days of TechCrunch. I saw this morning in his Spyglass Digest that Pat Gelsinger is suddenly out at Intel. This from Business Wire. Intel has missed several market movements. Mobile and AI to name two....
Digi International Announces T-Mobile Certification
I remember Digi from many years ago as a networking interface of serial to Ethernet. I lost track of the company for some years. It has become active over the past few years, still working on connectivity. This news concerns further connectivity options. Digi...
AI, Software Defined, Data Highlight Automation Fair
Blake Moret deserves credit for many reasons during his tenure as CEO of Rockwell Automation. He has not been afraid to try things. If they don’t work out, he just pivots and tries something else. There was the interlude with PTC and ThingWorx. Rockwell gained...
ODVA News from SPS
Through the wonders of modern digital networking, I attended the annual ODVA press conference from Nuremberg without the expense of travel. They had two announcements. Perhaps I can make the annual meeting in Florida next March. EtherNet/IP Concurrent Connections for...
How Metso Reduced Costs, Boosted Communication, and Improved Transparency
I have been writing occasional blog posts regarding Quickbase and have also appeared at their annual user conference and on a podcast.* I first heard of the company at the beginning of the year. The customers who spoke at the user conference gave examples of the...
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