204 Wireless Power for IoT Devices via Light Podcast Interview
In a turnaround, this time I'm doing an interview. First one in years. This episode is an interview with Yuval Boger, CMO of Wi-Charge, who talks about wireless remote power for charging IoT devices with light. There was a gap between this and my last podcast. In the...
Application Kits Simplify Collaborative Robotics (Cobot) Deployments
I spent years learning to program and apply robotics in manufacturing. Then they became less interesting to me as most innovation focused on bigger and faster. Enter the collaborative robot (Cobot) and autonomous robot product lines. Things are becoming interesting...
Where Is Shift to Digital Transformation Lagging?
My new office is getting organized. Better than my outside life. Remind me why we moved 200 miles north when I went outside for some exercise in 0.5-in. of snow with some icy patches on the trail. Didn’t do my Fartlek run this morning. But, I am relishing one of my...
State of the Edge Merges with LF Edge to Provide Unified Edge Computing Thought Leadership
The “edge” has become one of the most popular words in manufacturing enterprise architecture over the past several years. Want to know what it is? Here is an organization attempting a definition. Linux Foundation is definitely an information source to bookmark. Maybe...
Criticizing Is So Easy
A story from the 4th Century Desert Fathers. I thought of this after a post on LinkedIn from Rick Bullotta who had grown tired of all the negativity. A certain brother came to Abbot Silvanus at Mount Sinai, and seeing the hermits at work, he exclaimed, “Why do you...
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...