TÜV Rheinland Launches Customized Services in North America
Last November I visited TÜV Rheinland where we were briefed on its progress on cybersecurity services. It is a well known testing and service agency in Europe with the same reputation in general as UL in the US. I once served on a UL Industry Advisory Group for one of...
Profinet Specification Now Includes Time Sensitive Networking TSN
I thought Time Sensitive Networks (TSN), an addition to the IEEE Ethernet specification, was a technology that held great promise. Some technologists I respected were working on it. Then it appeared the hype was about over. I haven’t heard anything for months....
Magazine Media Group Goes Political
The publishing industry has intrigued me for most of my life. The last third or so of it I spent working within that industry. Both print and digital. I remain curious about where the industry is going. I had four bosses in the time I spent with magazine publishing....
Selling Excess Manufacturing Capacity
I receive many pitches every day. Many just don’t fit my interests. How could I pass up this one? “Just as Airbnb helps millions of people around the world instantly find a great place to stay for the night. What if car makers could use a similar model to easily order...
What the Best Mentors Do
Can you think of a mentor who has helped you grow either personally or professionally? Perhaps a teacher? A boss early in your career? When have you mentored someone? How did it work out? I can remember a teacher or two who helped guide me. My first supervisor in...
Virtual Appliance Provides Entry Point for Small Deployments
A short blurb on a product that I didn’t know that Rockwell Automation had—a rack-mount compute platform that can be used as a virtual machine server. The information did not come through a traditional press release. It was a New Product Spotlight with a request to...
Open Source IoT Project Reaching Maturity
It is great to see things mature--whether kids or adults or technologies. Or an open source project called EdgeX Foundry. Yesterday I had the pleasure of two exciting teleconferences regarding the latest release of EdgeX Foundry, named Edinburgh, from the Linux...
Manufacturing Jobs Surveys Highlight Positive and Negative
Everyone worries about manufacturing jobs. The topic comprises talking points for politicians. Economists can't figure out jobs and wages (but they can't figure out much with all their differential equations and such but never actually working anywhere). Manufacturing...
Sending Information to The Manufacturing Connection
I receive enough feedback to believe that this is a well read blog in the industry. Not bad for what may be the only independent blog in the industry. Others I read are good (I continue to point readers to Jim Cahill's Emerson Automation Experts as the model for doing...
SCADA in the Cloud Developer Acquired by Emerson
When I was as-a-service offerings in the wake of my trip to HPE Discover 2019, I mentioned Inductive Automation as an example in the industrial market. There is actually another company. I’ve never heard about it—bad on my part. It’s called Zedi Solutions. I didn’t...
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