Closing Out 2021
It's the last day of 2021. Do you know where your year went? Blogging grew in popularity during 2002 and 2003. I wanted to investigate it, but I had begun the work of starting a new magazine in February 2003 and didn't have time. In December 2003 I began playing...
Digital Twin Consortium Announces Digital Twin System Interoperability Framework
I applaud these efforts to improve and increase digital interoperability through industry or formal standards and open source. These efforts over many years, and even ones that pre-date digital, have provided progress not only in technology but in the lives of users....
ABB Retains Process Control AutomationMarket Leadership
The process control automation (Distributed Control Systems or DCS) market was ripe for consolidation. A few companies began to grow, most were candidates for acquisition. No company had a more voracious acquisition appetite than ABB. Part of its genius was the...
Litmus Expands Enterprise-Grade Smart Manufacturing at the Edge
Many innovations and partnerships occur at the edge of the network today. Edge-to-Cloud is a term often replacing IoT for marketers. Litmus, a relatively new company, focuses on developing an innovative edge platform. I introduced Litmus here and I touched on this...
Rockwell Automation News and Updates
The first business trip involving airplane and car in 18 months took me to Houston in November to Automation Fair, the Rockwell Automation user conference and trade show. They offered five press conferences via remote conferencing. I felt the urge to visit with people...
Potpourri Of Industrial Market Analyses
I like the methodology of Interact Analysis industrial market research better than any I've seen so far. At the end of the year, they've flooded me with reports. Following are summaries from several of the latest ones including industrial machinery, global machinery...
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...
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