Industrial Internet Consortium Technical Report Defines Framework for Distributed Edge Computing
The trend du jour no doubt includes computing at the edge to enhance the Industrial Internet. This news from the Industrial Internet Consortium shows how companies working together can develop a common set of standard frameworks to assure interoperability. Moving...
ABB and IBM to Bolster Cybersecurity for Industrial Operations
Another partnership in the news. I have visited IBM’s cybersecurity operations, and it has a powerful story to tell. This news should bolster ABB's customers. ABB process control systems can connect with IBM security platform for digital threat visibility. ABB and IBM...
Digital Twin Consortium Membership Approaches 150
Businesses implementing what we’re calling Digital Transformation, which is actually just a new focus on something we’ve been doing since the 70s—applying digital technologies in service of improved operations, find many tools within the toolbox. One of those basic...
Dell Technologies Accelerates as-a-Service Strategy
A few hours rather than a few days this week brought several conferences to my attention. One was Dell Technologies World. I first was involved with Dell through the Influencer program for Internet of Things and Edge. Both of those groups are gone. The only people I...
ABB Adaptive Execution For Capital Projects
ABB has been making some news lately. I’ve run projects and supervised project managers in my career, but never those really large capital projects in the energy industries. Maybe $10 million in 1985 dollars. But when they say a new methodology to reduce up to 40 per...
Strategic Partnership to Deliver a Digital Reliability Platform
If I receive a press release without either “partnership” or “AI” in it, it will be the featured news for a week. Of course, I'm all about digital. Now that we’re past all the releases about what technology companies are doing to help protect workers from Covid, those...
Podcast 215 – Pursuing Quality
Podcast 215--I moved to a new state a few months ago and have been searching for a good local, independent coffee shop with ethically traded coffee--in vain. So, I go to Starbucks a few times a week. The concept of quality at Starbucks is not the coffee, which is...
Open Source Meets DataOps
I had been talking Open Source with Bill Lydon, who, like me, has been around many places in manufacturing and media in his career most recently as editor of InTech. He referred me to an article he wrote on automation.com. This release actually points to two important...
Collaboration Helps Employees Return Safely to the Workplace
Collaboration continues to be one of the key words in this pandemic season for operations in industrial plant safety—which includes Covid awareness. This collaboration targets employees in asset-intensive industries. Collaboration will combine Honeywell’s IIoT...
Agile MES With Microservices Architecture Streamlines System Integration
Here it is, yet another press release of an “industry-first” or “world’s-first” product. I can’t verify that, but this looks like an attack on a fundamental problem of manufacturing execution solutions software (MES)—the many components of it that only add to...
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