Controlled Flying Birds and Workforce Development Highlight Festo Hannover Announcements
I remember the first trip I made to Festo in Germany many years ago. I thought, this is “just” a pneumatics company. What could be interesting about this trip? Then I witnessed what their R&D engineers did with pneumatics. And saw that the company if far deeper...
CIP Security, Resource-Constrained EtherNet/IP Devices, Updated Terminology Headline ODVA Hannover News
ODVA’s annual Hannover Messe press conference highlighted new technologies that extend EtherNet/IP and CIP Security to “resource-constrained” devices. Thanks to advance in 2-wire Ethernet, devices that were too small or too inexpensive for a network chip can now join...
Cognitive Internet Technologies for an Agile, Innovative and Competitive Industry
My first Hannover interview was with Tobias Steinhäußer of the Fraunhofer Institute. I have just begun learning about the Dataspace Connector organizations and work, and Tobias mentioned its relevance to what this particular center at Fraunhofer is up to. This...
A3 Comes Together As One Organization
No, I have not been on vacation this week. Hannover Messe—from the comfort of my office in Illinois. No walking 10 miles a day. No padding the frequent flyer miles. No German food (my wife could have but chose not). In one interview today I was told that the digital...
Manufacturing Executives Say Real-time Data Key to Innovation and Competitive Advantages
The results of a recent survey. Where do you fit on their maturity index? Hopefully you are using the technologies and obtaining positive results. Analog Devices, Inc. announced a newly commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Analog...
OSIsoft To Deploy PI to the Google Cloud
Looks like we have a serious new entrant for cloud services for manufacturing software—Google Cloud. For the past many months, AWS and Azure have been the cloud infrastructure partners of choice. Google Cloud has begun making some inroads. Any thoughts on how this...
HighByte Rolls Out Support for Complex Data and Cloud-to-Edge Integration
The team that started HighByte picked an open spot called DataOps in the OT/IT pantheon that I felt was today’s sweet spot. The IT companies introduced me to DataOps (the next thing past DevOps, I guess). The application looked, shall we say, useful. HighByte is up to...
New Services Offerings from GE Digital
The rush to improve bottom lines and build closer relationships to customers through adding a valuable services portfolio has progressed from novel to commonplace. I’ve seen major IT companies pivot to a services-first strategy. This announcement of new services from...
ABB Drops a Bunch of News, Drones, OEMs, and Mills
ABB has moved its media relations, at least the people working with me, to England. Two other major European industrial technology providers also have moved marketing and media relations from the US to England. I have no idea whether this is a statement about the...
CESMII Expanding Its Smart Manufacturing Innovation Center Footprint
CESMII – the Smart Manufacturing Institute constitutes the USA equivalent of manufacturing initiatives found in Germany, Italy, China, and many other countries. I’m glad to see CEO John Dyck popping up in panels with Industrie 4.0 and other international conferences....
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