Update on Plex Systems, Stand-alone MES and IIoT
I had an opportunity to talk with Ben Stewart, VP Product Strategy for Plex Systems, the other day to get my first deep dive for years. I talked with the company occasionally, but it was primarily an ERP developer with a robust MES incorporated. Much has happened...
Collaborative Robots Find New Uses
I learned to program robots and design them into work cells in the mid-80s. For years, I would tell people I was involved with automation and they would exclaim, “Robots!” And I’d say, “Well, yes, those, too.” Robots for industrial use, and there were few for other...
Generative Design Offering
Digital enables so many useful applications leading to better products, better plants, better management decisions. Without digital from the very beginning of the process until the final use, where would the usefulness of digital twins, digital threads, and even...
Microsoft Acquires IoT/OT Security Leader CyberX
The news in brief: CyberX’s IoT/OT-aware behavioral analytics platform integrates with Azure security to deliver end-to-end security across managed and unmanaged IoT devices Everyone has discussed Industrial Control Systems (ICS) cyber risks almost to the point of...
Connecting Plant to Execution to Business
When it was time to leave paid employment and head out on my own, I looked for a domain name I could buy with “connection” in it. Surveying the landscape of technology and applications in 2013, I saw that despite a couple of decades of thought on connecting sensors at...
Don’t Look Now, Your Data Has Been Stolen
Tim Bandos, VP of Cybersecurity at Digital Guardian set aside some time to discuss his latest work, The DG Data Trends Report. Research for the report was performed during (and as a result of) the Covid-19 pandemic to study how much sensitive corporate data was...
Data Remains Key Challenge for Artificial Intelligence Projects
70 Percent of Companies Report C-Suite Involvement into AI Projects, with COVID-19 Driving Acceleration of AI Strategies – But Businesses Still Name Data as Key Challenge. “Artificial Intelligence is neither,” according to my favorite quip. This field of computer...
HPE Shows Company’s Investment In People, Environment, and Doing Business the Right Way
This recap of Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) annual Living Progress Report for 2019 wraps up thoughts and coverage of all the many virtual conferences I experienced in June. The communications teams from all the companies worked hard and had to experiment in real...
Getting Your Software App Delivered as-a-Service
The news in brief: New HPE GreenLake cloud services deliver an agile, lower cost, and consistent cloud experience everywhere. We're living in an as-a-service and edge-to-cloud world (to paraphrase the Material Girl). When Antonio Neri assumed leadership of the storied...
CII and MIMOSA Join Forces to move Interoperability Forward for Capital Projects
CII and MIMOSA sign Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to use the Open Industrial Interoperability Ecosystem (OIIE) as the interoperability framework for CII best practices. I'm a believer based upon long experience that standards and interoperability drive industries...
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