Industrial DataOps Solution for Smart Manufacturing
HighByte expands edge-to-cloud connectivity, provides scalable data infrastructure for customers with latest release of HighByte Intelligence Hub DataOps is the current cool thing in the IT world. My last trip to an IT conference included an extended stay at the...
AVEVA achieves Microsoft Gold Application Development Competency
Microsoft has positioned itself as a premier platform provider for manufacturing applications for a long time. It lists as partners just about every industrial/manufacturing application developer. Recently, AVEVA announced it has reached a new level of competency...
COVID-19 Reshapes Manufacturing Landscape, New Google Cloud Findings Show
This information came to me about a month ago. I’m still catching up with filtering through all the releases from the last couple of months last year. Covid may have kept many people indoors, but it didn’t slow down work in engineering, marketing, or PR. This is a...
Intelligent Agents as a booster for European production
Artificial Intelligence coordinates multi-agent systemsImplementing European projects on the demonstrator in Kaiserslautern The Chief Technology Officer of a major automation supplier once told me that an important technology I should keep an eye on was intelligent...
TwinCAT IoT Now Supports MindSphere
Beckhoff integrates data and communication services efficiently into the cloud with support for third-party IoT technologies Where these IIoT platforms/ecosystems end up is beyond my power to guess, but this is an interesting partnership of a couple of German control...
ONF Announces Aether 5G Connected Edge Cloud Platform
Many industry pundits and observers seem to not understand all the ramifications and potentials for 5G. I’ve listened to podcasts from John Gruber at Daring Fireball and the guys at Accidental Tech Podcast talk about how 5G isn’t providing the anticipated boost for...
Mentor Becomes Siemens EDA
I received this email after I'd shut the computer down for the evening yesterday. Following the acquisition of Mentor Graphics by Siemens in 2017, Mentor will now officially become Siemens EDA, a part of Siemens Digital Industries Software, effective January 2021. Our...
CIP Security Updated to Support User Level Authentication
This release has been sitting in my Dropbox for a month or so. It’s still worth noting especially since security became news a couple of times in the past few weeks. ODVA announces that user level authentication has been added to CIP Security, the cybersecurity...
OPC Foundation In The News
OPC Foundation has released a lot of news at the end of 2020. Its working groups have been busy. Cloud Library with CESMIIField Level CommunicationsECLASS Standard for M2M CommunicationUpdate to PLCOpen 61131-3 specification Cloud Library The OPC Foundation, in...
Manufacturing Industry Asked to Participate in Survey of Reshoring Opportunities
Sometimes when I’m considering manufacturing trends and requirements, I feel like Odysseus caught between Scylla and Charybdis. Regarding trade and manufacturing—one the one hand I’ve seen the evidence that international trade can be beneficial for everyone, while on...
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