Industry IoT Consortium Updates Industrial Internet Reference Architecture
The Industry IoT Consortium (IIC) announced it had updated its Industrial Internet Reference Architecture (IIRA). The IIRA Version 1.10 addresses the challenges of current industrial IoT systems and industry trends, such as the convergence of IT and OT, digital twins,...
Are You Too Digital?
I have an iPhone, iPad, MacBook Air. I could not have accomplished all the soccer referee administrative work I've done without these digital devices and the internet. I began with the digital world in manufacturing in 1976. It became a career. I've earned a lot of...
Honeywell Connect 2022 Updates
Honeywell has been an enigma to me for several years. I haven’t been confident in product direction, where different elements of process automation would fit, and would it make a transition to software. Then came Honeywell Forge. Where did that fit with Process...
Reading, Writing, Thinking
I missed a day here yesterday. I had an outpatient procedure that necessitated leaving home about 5:30 am. I blamed the condition on past workplace stress. More likely it was hereditary. Glad to report that the operation was successful. By the time I got home...
Automation Fair Attracts Large Crowd, Exhibits New Technology
There was Automation Fair and then meetings and then Thanksgiving. Plenty of time to digest everything I learned and experienced at Rockwell Automation’s event. They skipped 2020, of course. The 2021 event in Houston was abbreviated. This one held at Chicago’s...
PTC Acquires ServiceMax
PTC to Acquire SaaS Field Service Management Provider ServiceMax PTC continually enlarges its footprint in the digital enterprise domain. There was its expansion a few years ago into Internet of Things with acquisition of ThingWorx and Kepware. Those brought a...
A Few Thoughts On Instrumentation Networking
Tilo Merlin holds the role of instrumentation platform manager at ABB in Frankfurt, Germany. We connected on Microsoft Teams because I was curious about the latest ABB take on what’s happening on the foundation side of the Industrial Internet of Things—networks and...
Industrial Metaverse—Dream or Real?
Just over a year ago, Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook) CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined a vision for the future of the social media giant—the metaverse. “We believe the metaverse will be the successor to the mobile internet, we’ll be able to feel present – like we’re...
Deterministic Ethernet Solutions for Industrial and Critical Infrastructure Applications
Reza Eltejaein from Marvell Technology explained how deterministic Ethernet is displacing special purpose networks in several applications also describing the company’s new Ethernet switches for harsh environments and PHYs targeted to the industrial and critical...
Conformance Testing For EtherNet/IP Devices on Ethernet-APL
Ethernet APL, advanced physical layer, moves closer to reality with this ODVA announcement of the availability of conformance testing for EtherNet/IP network-enabled devices that communicate over the Ethernet-APL physical layer. Conformance testing verifies the...
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