Next-Generation Integrated Production Control System Released
Just as I was wondering about anything new in process control, this release about Yokogawa releasing its next-generation CENTUM VP Integrated Production Control System came my way. They say that this celebrates the 50th anniversary of the announcement of the world's...
Honeywell User Group 2025
Honeywell did not invite me to this year’s HUG. I’m not sure when I was last there. I had attended the software group’s event a couple of times lately, but I think that it is history. Looks like they addressed the impending breakup of the corporation into three...
AI-supported Predictive Maintenance
Probably 90% of the press releases I have been receiving manage to work AI into the story. Most refer not to the Large Language Models that have captured the imagination of the tech press. The most useful are machine learning (ML) and some pattern matching that we’ve...
Think Remarkable
Still in the “books I’ve read recently” mode. This is a rare business book worth reading all the way through. Guy Kawasaki earned his reputation as the first technology evangelist promoting the original Apple Macintosh to developers back in the day. He’s been an...
Emerson Exchange 2025
I am no longer a favored person by Emerson. But, then, I really don’t care to travel as much as I once did. Plus, the technology evolution and applications have slowed. If you haven’t seen any reports from the latest Emerson Exchange users group, I recommend this from...
Meditations for Mortals
I’ve read a number of good books over the past few months, but there was too much tech news to get to them. It’s time to clear my queue before I head to Las Vegas and the Hexagon tech conference. Oliver Burkeman composed his latest book, Meditations for Mortals: Four...
AI and Jobs—hype v common sense analysis
My last post considered the future of Generative AI. It has become impossible to maintain thinking about AI at the pace of hype speed. While on vacation last week, a couple of new items popped across my screen in the brief times I was online. These items refer to the...
Future of GenAI?
Cal Newport, computer science professor at Georgetown and prolific workflow and lifestyle wrier, discussed another aspect of GenerativeAI on his May 26 podcast. His currently thinks generative AI companies will start making money when people use it several times daily...
Apple Manufacturing in the US?
There must be a label for people who try to make the world conform to their mental modal. Insane? Blind? Overly optimistic? Ego maniacal? I have many years of experience in manufacturing. Almost a decade of experience as the cost analyst of a mid-sized manufacturing...
Why and How
Seth Godin asks more questions. He shares my passion for moving beyond the industrial organization of education into something more useful for the students—and also more inclusive of some who are ignored by the system that rewards memorizing and sitting quietly. My...
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