Enterprise Help for Remote Work
Supplier companies have been working to find innovative ways to support the newly remote work force. Some of us have been set up for years for remote work with appropriate security and workflow. Others by the thousands were forced into it in order to stymie the spread...
Using Software Technology To Be Competitive In An Industrial Market
This is a story about Bill Johnson, vice president of operations for Madison, WI-based Madison-Kipp Corp. (MKC). The company makes precision machined aluminum die castings and subassemblies for the transportation, lawn & garden, and industrial markets. The company...
Cybersecurity Provides Yet Another Overlap for IT and OT or IioT
It was a typical request to set up an interview for a client, “For years, information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) have operated as separate entities, but now we are beginning to see a shift within organizations.” Actually, I have no interest for...
A New Spark for TSN? Avnu Alliance Releases Wireless TSN White Paper
Remember when Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) had so much buzz? For a couple of years at Hannover Messe, there were displays, test boards, promotions. I wrote a quick paper on the value of TSN along with OPC UA. Companies such as B+R Automation were pushing it. Then,...
Update on Open Industrial Interoperability Ecosystem
My inbox has accumulated a plethora of news about open—open standards, open source, open interoperability. Open benefits implementers (end users) because so much thought and work have been done already defining models, data, messaging, and the like that integration...
HPE Supports IT Scaling for the Newly Remote Workforce
I’m getting a ton of press releases regarding a company’s response to the current situation. Many are just a way of using current medical terms as “eye candy” to attract attention to an otherwise mundane announcement. This list of actions byHewlett Packard Enterprise...
Working from Home—Watch Your Relationships
My wife looked up from dinner last evening and blurted, "I wonder if there will be a spike in babies born. Or, divorces filed." Give me five seconds and I can list at least a half-dozen reasons why there won't be a a baby in our new house in December or January. She...
Integrating Open Technologies and Products
Open technologies and open standards provide many benefits. Installing an open, interoperable system constructed from a variety of suppliers does entail challenges of integration. Proponents of a single-vendor solution claim that products from one source will work...
HPE and Industry Partners Simplify 5G Rollout
5G network reality draws closer and closer. Unlike other communication technology standards that seem to have hung up in committee, 5G has some momentum. Not say that there aren’t some political headwinds to get beyond before widespread adoption. 5G offers many very...
Acquisitions Highlight Industrial News Last Week
Companies were still completing business last week. Many things have slowed down, but some business still needed to be wrapped up. Hitachi Vantara continues to build out DataOps and its data emphasis. Meanwhile, AVEVA continues a trend begun with the thought leaders...
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