Qualcomm Unleashes A Raft of New Products for WiFi and Autonomous Robots
Qualcomm has been quite busy releasing new products and devoting time to conversations. Networking advances are intriguing. Qualcomm has news beyond WiFi 6 that others are touting with news of a WiFi 7 platform. Other news includes an AR chip set and technology for...
Updates from Honeywell
I am in a hallway of the JW Marriott Grande Lakes in Orlando attending my first Honeywell User Group meeting in several years. I missed a couple before the pandemic shut things down. More than 1,200 people here, so it’s a lively return to conference season. ...
Responsible Computing Consortium
We thought of Artificial Intelligence as something magical. Then we figured out that much of the output of AI depends upon how the application is trained. Then, duh, we discovered bias underneath the AI training. Perhaps concepts we have learned since ancient times...
Emerson and AspenTech Complete Transaction Creating New AspenTech
I consider the Emerson Chief Marketing Officer the best branding expert in our market. She must have lost a battle this time. Emerson and AspenTech announced the successful closing of the combination of Emerson’s industrial software businesses – OSI Inc. and its...
Phoenix Contact Unveils Rooftop Solar System
Seth Godin initiated a project that has enlisted many volunteers from many countries called The Carbon Almanac. You can get yours soon. I thought I could contribute from the point of view of manufacturing and industrial production. I couldn’t get any information in...
Security Enhancements Headline Ignition Updates from Inductive Automation
Inductive Automation has released update 8.1.17. Key to this release are security updates and extensive upgrades for the Tag Editor. Arnell Ignacio provides an overview on the Ignition blog. Ignacio gives the rationale for the security updates. “On May 12, 2022 many...
Updated: Schneider Electric Launches Universal Automation Discovery Packs
Updated and corrected. I'm just off the "phone" with Louis Arone of Schneider Electric. Here are a few amplifications to what I wrote earlier this week. This release deals with factory automation, not process automation. Specifically technologies in use with the...
OMAC Launches Data Governance Initiative
The Organization for Machine Automation and Control (OMAC) continues to reinvent itself as new technologies and applications appear. I could say the same about Mark Fondl, whom I first met as he explained how Ethernet was going to be the only sensible control network...
Sustainability and the Circular Economy
That 2,800th post was not supposed to be the last for a while. I had an attack of seasonal allergies that sapped all my energy for several days. Finally about back to normal. I know about wearing masks for Covid and flu prevention. Seasonal allergies (pollen) are...
Promoting The Next Generation
This is post 2,800. It began as an experiment at the end of 2003 and grew and grew. Today there are usually more than 150,000 visits to this website every month. Thank you all very much. A woman called Ellie wrote proposing to submit a guest post here. There are a...
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