Agentic AI, SaaS, Community—The Aras Community Gathering
The Aras ACE2025 Community Event in Boston closed two weeks ago. It has taken me that long to wrap my head around everything I learned. Normally there are many really important-sounding words that sound so enlightening at the time, yet when I sit to write I find no...
Partnership Improves MRO For Data-Driven Solutions
Many years ago in a galaxy far away, I actually sold an MRO software solution to one of my clients. Fortunately, I left that position to become a senior editor at Control Engineering magazine never learning how it all worked out. This news concerns a partnership...
Are You Seeing the Full Picture in Your Risk Assessments?
A company called Armexa, new to me in the cybersecurity ecosystem, sent a release about an analysis they made regarding the thoroughness of risk assessments. They advocate a “bow-tie” method, detailed below. This is not my area of expertise, so I pass along as a tool...
Digi International Unveils Next-Gen Digi Navigator and New Digi Connect EZ with PoE
My memories of Digi International focus on it as one of two companies over time who emphasized technologies to link older analog and serial connectivity to modern networks. They may have an expanded portfolio over these many years, but they still return to their...
Secret Agent Man
I’m not talking about the Johnny Rivers theme for a late Sixties Saturday afternoon spy TV show. We’re talking software agents. Some may be secret, but none are men. I once had an annual meeting with the CTO of a large automation company where I shared...
Network and Connectivity Complexity
Some final thoughts from the ODVA meetings in March in Florida. I’ve been thinking for some time about complexity. Sometimes we get into the weeds with our technologies, building routine atop routines, solving a multitude of problems through creating others. The...
CIP Security Pull Model for Configuration Data From ODVA
More news from ODVA at Hannover. Following a presentation by a cyber security researcher at the annual meeting, everyone agreed that implementing CIP Security was a must have. ODVA announced that a new pull model for configuration data is now available for CIP...
ODVA Add Level Sensors to EtherNet/IP Process Device Profiles
The first news from Hannover this morning concerns additions to EtherNet/IP device profiles. Delegates discussed continued updates for process devices at the annual meeting a couple of weeks ago. ODVA announced that level sensors are the latest option for process...
ODVA Elects Leadership for the 24th Term
ODVA have generated still more news—I have some wrap up from a couple of weeks ago when I attended their meeting plus some news this morning from Hannover Messe. (No, I wish I were in Hannover, but I’m still in Illinois.) The leadership for ODVA’s 24th term was...
Siemens Acquires Altair Creating AI-powered Industrial Software Portfolio
The last of four news items this week from Siemens concerns a large software acquisition. A high level Siemens executive told me years ago that the company had learned from earlier mistakes in order to more successfully integrate acquisitions. Events have proved him...
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