Slow Recovery Predicted For Post-Covid Industrial Landscape
One of my favorite market intelligence companies, Interact Analysis, published its quarterly industrial market update last week. The highlights: Slow recovery out of pandemic predicted up to end of 2023 or into 2024Manufacturing output growth calculation for 2020...
Symbio Robotics The Tech Behind Ford Motor Company’s AI-enabled Assembly Line
There exist interesting developments in robotics beyond all the excitement of collaborative robotics (cobots). Companies are working on control platforms agnostic to the hardware. Although AI (usually machine learning) has been around for years, marketers and media...
IIC Busy on IoT Front Publishes Standards Guide and Launches Patterns Initiative
Two news items from The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) came my way recently regarding work on IoT. One announced the the publication of the Global Industry Standards for Industrial IoT whitepaper. The other announced launch of an IoT Patterns Initiative. The...
Financial Risks When Delaying PLM Upgrades
Senior management have always been reluctant to invest in technology and especially upgrades once a technology is in place. I have seen instances where management lays off the senior engineers who implemented something like Advanced Process Control or Manufacturing...
The Open Group Open Process Automation Forum Publishes the O-PAS Version 2.1 Preliminary Standard
After my first meeting with Don Bartusiak, then with ExxonMobil, at an ARC Forum, I thought this was an extremely ambitious idea thinking that an open, interoperable, relatively easily upgradable process automation system build upon industry standards was feasible....
Partnership Brings One-Stop-Shop for Cobot Applications to Manufacturers Globally
The Danish collaborative robotics (cobot) tools company OnRobot has been churning out innovative robotic tooling in a stream for the past year. It also taps the partnership stream of collaboration. I’ve run across Vention at a trade show a few years back but haven’t...
Solar Power From The Fabric In Your Tent Or Awning
One of this week’s more intriguing conversations centered on solar power from your canopy, awning, or tent with Pvilion CEO Colin Touhey. Maybe in these post-Covid days of rediscovered al fresco dining, you may be able to have a fine meal under a tent with...
Vuforia Instruct Streamlines Creation of 3D CAD-Based Work Instructions
Augmented Reality. Some of these days, I feel as if I’m living in an alternate reality. I’m attending two company conferences, about to go lift weights, practice some on the guitar, and never leave the house. The joy of virtual conferences is that I don’t have to...
Podcast 226 Respect for People
Show notes: Get outside. Get outside into nature, a park or something, to refresh your mind and body. Get outside your preconceived ideas and prejudices for better thinking. Mary Donelan came to KMC Systems to use Lean to improve productivity. She had to overcome...
Datadobi Points to Research Highlighting the Impact of Data Growth on Storage Management
The Industrial Internet of Things along with other manufacturing IT advances led to a rise in unstructured data causing storage challenges increasing the importance of data mobility. Continuing my theme today of data, this is news from a company new to me called...
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