Hitachi Vantara Supports Data-Driven Business
This week’s virtual conference is Hitachi Vantara Social Innovation. I watched a few sessions yesterday. I’ll be back today for a little more between household chores and an interview. The key takeaway is data-driven. Showcased were the Disney Company and American...
Ultracompact, High-Performance Servo Motors
You are probably doing a double take. Gary is writing about servo motors? My next post is on the Dunning-Kruger effect where you hit a point of your perceived knowledge far exceeds your actual knowledge and then the collapse to feeling you know nothing followed by a...
RSA Security Conference And Security Thoughts
The first few weeks of May were Security weeks at The Manufacturing Connection. In preparation for the May 17-20 RSA Security Conference, I interviewed Ron Brash, Director of Cyber Security Insights at Verve Industrial. This was supposed to be an introduction to his...
NI Expands Global Network to Serve Small Businesses
NI has always served smaller businesses—most of whom do work for big businesses or projects solving interesting engineering problems. This month I received an announcement of NI’s partner network focusing on small-to-medium businesses (SMBs). We must remember that the...
Qualcomm Unveils Purpose-Built 5G Modem Optimized for IIoT
Important news about IoT enabling technologies development. Europe and China are first targeted markets. Seemingly US engineers just don’t jump on new technologies and initiatives as quickly as the rest of the world. Management problem? Note that the supporting quotes...
Plethora of News from Rockwell Automation
I received few news releases from Rockwell Automation for several years. Suddenly I gained a new friend, Jack, who sends something almost every week. It’s good to know that one of the largest control and automation suppliers in North America is still churning out...
Talking Digital Transformation with Rockwell Automation
I have not talked with anyone from Rockwell Automation for months. So, it was time to catch up with Keith Higgins who joined the company within the past couple of years as VP of Digital Transformation leading the software group. As we might expect, digital...
The Converged Edge Explained
Our schedules finally converged. I caught up with Tom Bradicich, PhD, known within Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) as “Dr. Tom,” to learn the latest on the converged edge. Tom is one of the half-dozen or so people I know who can dump so much information on my brain...
Seeq Announces Amazon Web Services Data Integration
Anyone reading this still curious about Microsoft appointing Satya Nadella CEO coming from the Web services division (Azure) or Amazon appointing Andy Jassy CEO coming from Amazon Web Services (AWS)? Those services continue to grow in importance to industrial software...
Secure Zero Touch Kubernetes Orchestration Solution for the Distributed Edge
The action occurs at the edge these days. At least, edge as defined by the IT groups as they reach out toward the plant or factory with networks, compute, and other technologies as IT searches for more and better data to feed their decision-making systems. This...
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