Emerson Technologies Highlighted at Pack Expo
This week is another week on the road—five out of the last six—and now I’m in Chicago at Pack Expo. Much like IMTS, Pack Expo fills three halls of McCormick Place with machines. And machine components such as controls, drives, software, instrumentation, and the like....
Honeywell Increases Commitment to ODVA
Here is the second news piece, and perhaps the biggest, from the ODVA annual meeting held this week in Georgia. Honeywell has become a principal member of ODVA alongside Bosch Rexroth, Cisco Systems, Endress+Hauser, Rockwell Automation, Omron and Schneider Electric....
ODVA Industry Conference and Annual Meeting
The ODVA held its Industry Conference and 19th Annual meeting this week in Atlanta. Perhaps more than the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP), the topic of conversation was Michael—the hurricane. We started getting rain from its outer bands in the late afternoon...
Europe, Asia Lead the Way to the Factories of the Future
Which companies are leading us into the Fourth Industrial Revolution? The World Economic Forum has completed a study and named nine of the best factories in the world—certainly an audacious task. Dubbed “lighthouses”, they were selected from a survey of over 1,000...
Emerson to Buy General Electric’s Intelligent Platforms Business
There was plenty of cool new products unveiled at last week’s Emerson Global Users Exchange. As a former product development manager, I liked the “peanut butter and chocolate” moment when Emerson’s engineers were trying to solve the human location in a plant problem....
Industrial Automation and Information Technology
Last week was where industrial automation and information technology met along with my vice--soccer. Emerson Automation Solutions--Digital Transformation, IT/OT collaboration, corporate acquisitions (GE Intelligent Platforms, once known as GE Fanuc, joins the fold),...
Emerson Champions Digital Transformation
This week is Emerson Global Users Exchange week in San Antonio—with a quick side trip to Houston and a tour of some refineries implementing IoT applications with Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The theme of the week is Digital Transformation just where I reside—at the...
ABB Industrial Technology Meets The Cloud With Salesforce
Dreamforce, the Salesforce annual customer conference, was this week in San Francisco. I should have been there. Along with 100,000 of my closest IT friends. But, my project hit a crisis and I didn’t travel. All is not lost, however, since I received this information...
Podcast 179 Humans and Technology in Manufacturing
Once upon a time, people made useful things in the shop under their apartment or in the shed out back. The product of their labor was very much a piece of themselves. A little bit of their soul went into their creation. This was a podcast originally scripted for Labor...
When IoT Projects Fail
Browsing LinkedIn, something I seldom do, I saw this image from a company called Seebo. “Where IoT Projects Fail.” Interesting, but can’t these be summed up in a word or two? Try “management” or “leadership”. The recurring theme I’ve found in my consulting and...
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