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...
Things Will Never Be The Same
There is no escaping discussing the effects of the Coronavirus / covid-19 / SARS-CoV-2 infection and disease. Almost everyone in the world is affected in one way or another. The meme of the week seems to be working from home advice. The Rework podcast lately is a...
OTOH Don’t Get Ready to Travel Too Soon
Yesterday's notice was from an IoT event in Barcelona in October. Maybe the situation in Spain will be better by then. On the other hand, a message just came in from the Deutsche Messe people announcing that Hannover Messe will not be held in 2020. The city of...
Getting Ready to Travel?
With all this staying home protocol going on, are you missing the travel scene? Some pundits are doing a linear extrapolation from a limited data set and predicting a "new normal" where all conferences are virtual. Have you heard that before? October might be a good...
Industrial Leadership—Beyond The Buzz
Have you heard “digital transformation” until your ears ring? Every supplier, every analyst, every consultant promises to take you on the digital transformation journey. Pause and reflect. Aren’t you already using many digital tools in your business and production...
Inductive Automation Expands Again, Buys Land for Two New Buildings
How about some good news? Based on many conversations within the industry, I’ve longed pegged Inductive Automation as a growth company among a field perhaps not so active. Here is more evidence of solid growth for the company—and most likely also for this type of...
Hitachi Vantara Acquires What’s Left of Containership
Suddenly the subject of "containers" has moved from the realm of IT into the realm of manufacturing IT (aka OT). One company held a press conference at the decidedly OT-oriented ARC Forum last February. If you are new to containers, check out Kubernetes. Kubernetes...
IIoT versus MES, Is It A Battle?
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) or Manufacturing Enterprise Solution (MES), that is the question. Actually, I didn’t know that it was a question, or an either/or. I’m thinking false dichotomy. As you might imagine, I receive a ton of emails from a variety of...
Standard of Standards Model For Asset Data
Alan Johnston caught up with me yesterday to update me on progress MIMOSA has made toward updating and adoption of its asset information data and data flow models--described by the Open Industrial Interoperability Ecosystem (OIIE). I had been working with them a few...
Solution for 3D Printing Pure Copper
3D printing proffers the possibility for drastic advances in manufacturing. However combining printing technology with material science holds the key to success. And, every week brings news of advances. Here is one where a company has improved manufacture with pure...
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