Finally a Fieldbus Convergence, Ethernet-APL Technology Now Available
Process manufacturing grew more and more complex, as well as more and more digital. Engineers needed better ways to communicate with field devices and instrumentation from control and operator stations. “We need a fieldbus,” they said. Unfortunately, they didn’t...
Industrial Controls Market Partnership of Process Automation and Cybersecurity
Partnerships remain crucial for success in today’s industrial market. This seems especially true for cybersecurity firms who need ways into integrating security into operational technology. This is the story of one such partnership. Horizon Controls Group, a...
Proprietary Software Is An Evolutionary DeadEnd
The thing that gets everyone working together, each person doing their own self-interested thing, makes the whole better. This was Matt Mullenweg, WordPress founder and CEO of Automattic, on his podcast Distributed discussing distribute work and open source software....
Reshoring Manufacturing Hitting New Highs, Adding Jobs and Economic Development
Most things in nature live in tension. For example, take business. As companies grow larger, their need for growth requires leaving behind an outlook on a city, region, and even country. Managers see a need for a global presence in order to meet financial objectives....
Claroty Unveils Zero-Infrastructure Cybersecurity Solution to Protect Industrial Enterprises
Finally, a cybersecurity news release that doesn’t try to jump on the latest cyber breach bandwagon. Interesting advance for cyber security. New Claroty Edge and enhanced Continuous Threat Detection give customers faster, easier, more-flexible paths to achieve wide...
Qualcomm Debuts Roster of IoT Solutions to Drive Global Digital Transformation Across Industries
Qualcomm is in release mode these days—especially concerning chips for 5G and IoT. Last month was one new chipset. This month—four more. These will power many devices for your IoT / digital transformation initiatives. Next-generation solutions deliver advanced Edge-AI...
Whirlpool Migrates SAP Systems to Google Cloud for Sustainable Growth
Are you using a cloud service, yet? The competition among the various big-company cloud services working with industrial companies is becoming fierce. Here is a win for Google Cloud—one that I’ve only seen active recently. Whoever thought that these would grow to be...
Slow Recovery Predicted For Post-Covid Industrial Landscape
One of my favorite market intelligence companies, Interact Analysis, published its quarterly industrial market update last week. The highlights: Slow recovery out of pandemic predicted up to end of 2023 or into 2024Manufacturing output growth calculation for 2020...
Symbio Robotics The Tech Behind Ford Motor Company’s AI-enabled Assembly Line
There exist interesting developments in robotics beyond all the excitement of collaborative robotics (cobots). Companies are working on control platforms agnostic to the hardware. Although AI (usually machine learning) has been around for years, marketers and media...
IIC Busy on IoT Front Publishes Standards Guide and Launches Patterns Initiative
Two news items from The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) came my way recently regarding work on IoT. One announced the the publication of the Global Industry Standards for Industrial IoT whitepaper. The other announced launch of an IoT Patterns Initiative. The...
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