Employee Well Being and Mentoring
What is your experience as an employee? I'd like to juxtapose two attitudes in this brief essay. The first one reveals the results of a survey that "finds a major disconnect between employees and HR in supporting wellbeing at work." That one wasn't surprising. My...
TwinCAT Automation Software from Beckhoff Turns 25
A fervent issue for discussion in German automation circles, especially for those who wish to displace Siemens from its leading position, is software-based control. An early leader in this technology is Beckhoff Automation. This press release made public this week...
First Commercially Available Chip-Integrated FMCW LiDAR Sensor
Looks like this is the next evolution of vision sensing. Vision is one of the key sensors touted by IIoT marketers. Eyeonic Vision Sensor said to be poised to accelerate next-generation machine vision in mobility, robotics, security, and other markets. From its press...
Linux Foundation Open Standards Updates
Industries cannot advance without standards. Trains could not operate across a continent. I could not connect to the world from my computer through WiFi to an Internet. Standards may be recognized by governments or they may be de facto industry standards. The key...
Thoughts On Apache Security Exploit
One of the more difficult things I do concerns filtering press releases to figure out which are hype and which have some enduring relevance. The first one I received about the Log4J exploit seemed over the top. However, this one appears to have legs. Best practices...
Phoenix Contact News From SPS Show
Phoenix Contact sent an executive report meant for the SPS show in Nuremberg. I have not heard much from that company for several years. That’s a shame. The company has been active, investing, growing, and pushing technology forward. I’ve summarized the high points...
Multi-Petabyte Starter Packs to Accelerate Enterprise-Class Digital Transformation
Data comprises the foundation for digital transformation. The ecosystem growing around data—storage, security, management, migration—seems to be expanding like the universe. New products and services along with acquisitions and consolidation are happening. And beyond...
Supply Chain Solution Provider Verusan Adds Executive Talent
I keep telling PR people that I'm not the supply chain specialist, but they assume among the 150,000 monthly viewers (estimated from my service provider) of this blog many will be involved with supply chain issues. I also seldom report on executive hires. In this...
5G Private Wireless Network for Volkswagen’s Pilot Project
When Apple released its first iPhone with 5G capability simultaneously hyped by AT&T, consumer pundits swooned hoping for ultra fast speeds and capabilities on their new phones. That didn't happen. Even now, not so much. I wrote to one prominent Apple pundit to...
IIoT versus SCADA, Technology 2021 Untangled, And More
I just wondered when Michael Bird of HPE was going to release another Technology Untangled podcast and, voila, here came one this morning into my Overcast feed. In this episode, Bird interviews Anthesis Group CEO Stuart McLachlan, HPE President and CEO Antonio Neri,...
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