Why Do Open Systems Work in IT but Have Not Made It in OT?
This is from my last newsletter which you can find at world.hey.com/garymintchell. I continue to spin a few of my brain cycles around the concept of open systems. Automation suppliers continue to pay a little lip service to open but also continue to try to keep as...
MESA International Announces 2023-25 International Board
MESA (Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association) recently held its members meeting online. I was able to sit in as a long-time member. The association made it through the difficult times of the pandemic and losing most of its platinum supporting members. I’m sad...
Environmental Sensors Increase Supply Chain Visibility
Innovation has not died even at the sensor level of automation. This news from Zebra Technologies features a new line of environmental sensors including the new ZS300 sensor, ZB200 Bridge and Android Sensor Discovery app. Using these sensors, manufacturers,...
Branch Motor Control Updated from Allen-Bradley
Here is my second piece of news from the foundation level of the enterprise pyramid. I lien’t think I’d write about motor control again. This news from Rockwell Automation announces a complete revision to its Allen-Bradley Branch Motor Control & Protection...
Honeywell Introduces New Transmitters for Condition-based Monitoring of Rotating Equipment
A couple of news items recently pushed my way from the foundation layer of the famous Purdue Pyramid. This one comes from Honeywell, a company that usually talks to me about software and sustainability. This release concerns transmitters for condition-based monitoring...
Rockwell Invests in Ready Robotics
Rockwell Automation invests strategically in a number of ways. It made an investment in PTC mostly to have access to ThingWorx and input into other technologies. It also acquired outright Plex and FiiX that gave it inhouse cloud capabilities. This investment is in...
From the Ridiculous to the More Ridiculous
So, the court system is now tied up by a law suit about what a chicken wing is. [Disclaimer: I have not eaten poultry since I was about five. I have no personal experience.] It seems a guy visited Buffalo Wild Wings. He ordered their “boneless chicken wings.” They...
Advances Carbon Emission Reduction Efforts with Comprehensive Decision Support Capability
Leaving politics behind (oh, how I wish we could!), carbon reduction is simply good business, good engineering, good for us all. And many leading industrial technology companies are working on solutions. This announcement on March 7, 2023 is from Aspen Technology (aka...
Using 3D Mapping Solutions Effectively for Enterprise AR
The entire scope of technology going under Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Extended Reality (XR), Metasphere, and whatever comes next has been hyped beyond the Gartner Hype Cycle. That brings out the skeptic in me. Many trade show demonstrators have...
Deutsche Telekom and T‑Mobile US introduce Network APIs and Joint Developer Platform
More news from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, this one concerning working with telco networks. In brief: New network Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) will enable developers to build and innovate with telco network capabilities Deutsche Telekom and...
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