Universal Robots Expands ‘Beyond the Welding Cart’
Fabtech proceeds as scheduled this week in Orlando. I will not be there, but people have sent news. This news comes from my old friends at Universal Robots with new welding solutions for their cobots. “UR cobots started out predominantly in air-cooled MIG welding...
Yokogawa Releases OpreX Intelligent Manufacturing Hub
The automation side of Yokogawa has not contacted me for years. I’ve lost all my contacts there. Recently some news has come my way. This news incorporates a lot of things currently receiving media attention—data integration and visualization solution that...
Sonair Reaches $6.8M Funding Milestone, Launching Global Early Access to Technology
My marketing communications colleague has another new client from outside my usual comfort zone. The autonomous mobile robot (AMR) continues to grow becoming more valuable not only for warehousing, but also for manufacturing. One of the more costly components is the...
Güdel Delivers Maintainability in Linear Axis Track Systems
Fabtech is in Orlando this year. Next week—October 15-17. Hurricane Milton is making landfall tonight around Tampa Bay. Orlando is on the path. As of today, October 9, the show is still on. I’m betting that the area will still have much debris, but that buildings will...
Honeywell User Group 2024
I didn’t rate an invitation to this year’s Honeywell User Group. They have reorganized. All my marketing contacts are evidently gone. I checked in to the only source I have, Control Global, who somehow maintains contact and once again published the email show daily....
Podcast–Mature Markets and Open Systems
I’ve been swamped with a project for the past 10 weeks. It ends next Tuesday (supposed to end Saturday, but you know how projects go). The travails of Google with the US DOJ and Apple with the European Union focusing on the issues of monopolistic mature market and...
30 Years of Blogging
Blogging, writing to a Web Log, began crossing my radar by the late 90s. I was curious about what was going on. I heard of Dave Winer. He was a software developer. Developer of RSS, something I still use. Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of his blog Scripting News....
Foxit PDF Editor News and Review
A marketing communications person I’ve known for some time sent news about a new client—and a product I never expected to see, let alone review. Foxit has built a PDF editor with expanding features. I wrote a couple months ago about its e-signature subscription plan....
“Productize” Large Language Model LLM Applications
Mainstream media, bloggers, and YouTubers join marketers with opinions and expectations surrounding Augmented (Artificial) Intelligence (AI) especially with the breakout of energy-guzzling Large Language Models (LLMs). Despite the hype, I have seen a few actual...
PTC Announces Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS
Amazon stumbled into quite a business when it developed Web Services. Of course, Microsoft and Google entered the market proving it’s a real market. AWS has been gaining ground in the industrial software space. This news comes from PTC announcing that its Onshape...