Festo Shows Process Products At Automation Fair
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Testing, Artificial Intelligence, Education
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MQTT and Electric Actuators
I am currently in Houston attending Automation Fair by Rockwell Automation. This post-pandemic opening is down from the usual Fairs, but 4,000 customers is huge compared to many conferences, then including the virtual segment, there are more than 16.000 registered....
Standards and Open Source News
Open source predominates in IT. One can find open source growing within OT. I expect more as the younger generation of engineers takes over from the Boomers. My generation has laid a great foundation of standards. These make things better for engineers just trying to...
Full Raft of Additive Manufacturing News
Additive manufacturing news has flooded my inbox during the past couple of weeks. Stratasys released a new software platform. Markforged has a new printer capable of printing a new fiber. Essentium introduces a new dual extruder. News releases follow: 1. Stratasys...
But That’s Not All, You Can Get Twice As Many If
I wondered how long it would take for someone to ask. What happens when an independent software developer who has a widely adopted product sells out to a particular supplier? The supplier proclaims independence, but will it really not absorb it into their proprietary...
Open Automation Platform Becomes an Industrial Ecosystem
This is a story of what some believe is disruptive technology in the industrial control world emanating from Germany. They call it PC-based control or soft-control. This version concerns a control and automation platform introduced a bit over a year ago from Bosch...
Digital Performance Management Tool Targets Efficiency Gains
Remember The Goal by Eli Goldratt? The plant manager began investigating constraints in the production line. In order to find the data, the IT guy had to make a special report run overnight resulting in printing reams of paper that they had to read through the next...
Industrial Software Moving Toward Major Cloud Services
A couple of news items came my way about industrial software companies leveraging major cloud services to develop their platforms. I wonder when Amazon (Amazon Web Services or AWS), Microsoft (Azure), Google (Cloud), Oracle, or others will be the main industrial...
Acquisitions and Further Industrial Software Consolidation
Lots of news coming in recently. One definite trend we’re seeing concerns consolidation of the industrial software market. This is a drip, drip, drip of announcements. When will it reach a tipping point and a big player comes in with a major scoop? The other news...
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