AI For Process Control Boosts Cement Plant
Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is quite the buzz word. Mention in general conversation, say if you are Axios or The New York Times, and public response is that it is something evil that will take all our jobs away. Of course, like all technology from the beginning of...
ERP Installation Pain A Thing of the Past
I grew up on (ERP) pain. The quickest way to find unemployment was to be selected to be the program manager implementing the company’s new ERP system. Actually, in reality the death was long, slow, and painful. A new study conducted by my old friend Cindy Jutras lays...
Eclipse in Open Source IoT Leadership
The greater IT community makes abundant use of open source projects. These projects have proven great worth in operating systems, networking, and applications. The OT community, well, not so much. Maybe some. Microsoft and Dell Technologies, among many others, have...
Digital and Autonomous Highlight ABB Strategy
It starts with digital then moving toward autonomous processes. I’ve written about the strategy ABB has followed for the past four years since Ulrich Spiesshofer assumed the CEO post. We can summarize much of the strategy and also technology roadmap from those two...
186 Women In Engineering Careers – a Podcast Conversation
As march into Women’s History Month, I welcome Isabel Yang, CTO at Advanced Energy Industries. As a minority woman in a C suite position at a publicly traded manufacturing company, Isabel has a plethora of unique insight on her path to success as well as advice for...
Encouraging Women To Pursue Technical Work
I meant to post this Friday on the actual International Women’s Day, but since it is not an actual anniversary day, I guess missing by the weekend is OK. Back in the 60s in my freshman engineering class, there were 700 total students. Seven were women. Plus, almost...
ABB and Dassault Systèmes Partnership Unleashes Digital Twins
Yesterday I tweeted ABB Chief Digital Officer Guido Jauret’s keynote at ABB Customer World that included the digital roadmap ABB is on including digital twin technology with a partnership with Dassault Systèmes. Then I realized I have not put the news on the blog....
ABB Reveals Future Course at ABB Customer World
ABB Customer World began Monday, but keynotes began Tuesday. Uli Spiesshofer, ABB CEO, described a renewed and refocused business model. ABB is all in for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and digitalization with ABB Ability, says Spiesshofer. ABB Ability is...
Practitioner’s Guide for Assessing the Maturity of IoT System Security
I just had an opportunity to talk Industrial cybersecurity with two leaders of The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) (now incorporating OpenFog) who gave an overview of the new Security Maturity Model (SMM) Practitioner’s Guide. This document provides detailed...
Podcast 185 Beyond IIoT
Jim Collins, writing in Good To Great, "When used right--when linked to a simple, clear, and coherent concept rooted in deep understanding--technology is an essential driver in accelerating forward momentum. But when used wrong--when grasped as an easy solution,...
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