Festo Develops a New Solution for Automating EV Battery Manufacturing
As an EV owner, news relating to them interests me. That plus Festo continues to be an intriguing company. I’ve seen other news about battery recycling and mixing raw materials. Festo created a new solution for high throughput dry-room electrode assembly of EV...
Digi 360 Cellular IoT Solutions
Moira Gunn of TechNation podcast just interviewed Gary Shapiro, longtime head of the Consumer Technology Association managers of the CES in January. He talked about the company pivots he had experienced. I have followed Digi International for many years. I won’t say...
Don’t Buy Cheap Chocolate
Seth Godin writes, Don’t Buy Cheap Chocolate. We are all in the business of making manufacturing and production processes run more smoothly, efficiently, effectively, safely. Our decisions determine these outcomes. Sometimes we do not think beyond these systems....
Planning or Doing?
Personal productivity writer Oliver Burkeman asks of us—you’re merely the kind of person who spends your life drawing up plans for how you’re going to become a different kind of person later on. This will sometimes garner you the admiration of others, since it can...
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...
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