Podcasts and Education Opportunities
I’ve been busy behind the microphone lately. Here is news about my latest Gary on Manufacturing podcast (I’m taking suggestions for a new name since I cover a much broader area than manufacturing) plus a conversation I had for an SAP-sponsored podcast with the famous...
Cloud-based Database Platform Complements PI System
Digitalization requires digital data, which in turn requires a place to robustly store that data. OSIsoft PI System must be the most widely used industrial historian database. Last November I wrote about the company bringing its PI System to Amazon Web Services (AWS)....
Everything as a Service — My Second HPE Discover Report
Antonio Neri, HPE CEO, announced during his keynote address to HPE Discover Las Vegas 2019, that the company was moving toward “Everything as a Service”—a consumption-based model within the next three years. Wait, isn’t this a company that sells boxes? Lots of power...
Driving the Next Wave of Intelligent Edge Adoption
This week is IT week in my study of how IT and OT are coming together. I am in Las Vegas at the annual Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) customer conference called Discover. This rather long post looks at many of the announcements that show how far HPE has come in its...
Cloud-based Platform Complements PI System
Digitalization requires digital data, which in turn requires a place to robustly store that data. This place is most often the cloud these days. OSIsoft PI System must be the most widely used industrial database. The company has released OSIsoft Cloud Services—a...
Smart Factory Demonstrats Quantifiable, Real-Time Benefits of IIoT and Digitizing
A mere 2.5-hour drive south on I-75 June 13 brought me to the Schneider Electric plant in Lexington, KY that manufactures load centers and other electrical devices. Schneider Electric marketing people invited me down for tours and festivities marking the unveiling of...
ABB Names New Country Managing Director
ABB has appointed Maryrose Sylvester as Country Managing Director (CMD) and Head of Electrification for the United States, effective August 1, 2019. In the CMD role, she will succeed Greg Scheu, who will support a smooth transition until his retirement at the end of...
Industrial Automation User Conference Week
My wife’s family took me off for a week-long vacation to the beach last week. Eight days of much needed rest after a bunch of travel and a hectic (meaning wet) spring soccer season. Last week was also Rockwell Automation TechED. That conference was once open only to...
Navigating a New Industrial Infrastructure
The Manufacturing Connection conceived in 2013 when I decided to go it alone in the world from the ideas of a new industrial infrastructure and enhanced connectivity. I even had worked out a cool mind map to figure it out. Last week I was on vacation spending some...
Make Things Cheaper or The Wal-mart Effect
I have been reading a good book that I highly recommend. Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michael Pollan. This short, concise book packs much thought and makes you also think. Here, for example, is rule 44 out of 64: With food, as with so many things, you get what you...
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