PTC Releases Cloud-Native CAM Studio in Onshape
I just listened to the Under the Radar podcast by Marco Arment and David Smith commiserating about the evolution of iOS app development as Apple has matured into a different company. The excitement and community of the first decade of independent iOS development fades...
Industry Packs in Ignition
Inductive Automation has released prebuilt, industry-specific solutions via their Ignition Exchange. These are designed to provide Ignition users a running start while building solutions for their specific industry. I’ve seen this idea pop up from time to time amongst...
RTOSX KERNEL Functional Safety Certification
The last real-time operating system briefing for me had to have been more than a decade ago. I’m passing this along as an interesting take. RTOSX develops real-time operating systems (RTOS) and middleware. It bills its RTOSX Kernel as the “industrial grade alternative...
Tablet Compute For Rugged and Hazardous Areas
Ever since technicians and others wanted to take their iPhones into hazardous areas, technology developer companies have been making compute and communication products specifically for those areas. This news comes from a seemingly unlikely pair—Pepperl+Fuchs and...
Honeywell To Separate Into Three Companies
This corporate reshuffling should not have surprised anyone. Honeywell may be the last of the now “old-fashioned” conglomerates. No one could argue the famous “synergies” justification for keeping these divisions together. In brief from the news release: Honeywell...
Zebra Technologies Expands SymmetryFulfillment Solution
Manufacturing and process automation news has become sparse. News from the warehouse and fulfillment sector continues to grow. These items typically combine software, autonomous mobile robots, communications devices for connected workers, and (of course) a dollop of...
Strategic Partnership to Deliver Visual AI-Powered Technology to SMT Production Lines
You call it “Visual AI”; I call it AI-powered vision systems. Which I find interesting since industrial vision systems have had embedded AI ever since I played with them in the mid-90s. Technology does advance, and AI means something different today. Plus, it, like...
AI-Powered Asset Performance Management
AI contributes at least 50% of the content of news in my area of interest. No surprise that Yokogawa has harnessed some AI expertise for its Asset Performance Management. Yokogawa Electric and UptimeAI announced a strategic agreement aimed at enhancing asset...
ABB introduces AppStudio no-code tool for robot interface programming
No-Code tools appear in many applications. I’ve written about a software company with no-code tools talking with a customer about how easy (on a relative scale, of course) it was to develop new input forms for an added use case. No-code has now invaded the robot...
Foxit and Pax8 Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver Secure PDF and eSignature Solutions
More news from a company I’ve recently learned. Foxit develops document handling solutions based on the PDF format. I am using it instead of Adobe. I’m not a power user, but I find it an attractive interface and quite usable. This news deals with a strategic...