NI’s Enterprise Software Foray
I passed along the news of NI’s entrance into enterprise software with SystemLink a couple of weeks ago. Later, I had the opportunity to follow up with Penny Merian, chief product marketer, Enterprise Software, at NI. She confirmed that this is indeed a new venture...
Great Thoughts (Not Mine) On Interoperability
Interoperability has been a great benefit to consumers in many areas of the economy. Even industrial technology, where many forces coalesce to circumvent it. I have written about interoperability specifically several times and have even given a couple of presentations...
Harting Technology Celebrates 75 Years
Whenever I begin to feel down about humans and the human condition, whenever politics and social media crap get to be too much, then a story about the human spirit comes my way. I met a couple of members of the Harting family at a tech event several years ago. The...
OSIsoft Finds Buyer–AVEVA
I knew when OSIsoft brought in VC money a sale was imminent. Sure enough. This morning's blockbuster announcement proclaimed AVEVA the winner of the battle. $5.0 billion is a nice chunk of change for a software company, but the financials are solid and AVEVA should...
10 Things You Can Do Today
Good Monday morning (at least for me). Here are 10 things you can do today to change for the better that require zero talent. I snapped the picture, but I didn't note the source. It's good. Share widely--especially with younger people. Being on timeWork...
Low Voltage Drives Market Expected to Recover Slowly From the Covid 19 Slowdown
Blake Griffin, an analyst with Interact Analysis which is one market research firm whose methodology I like, has published a blog post reporting on his latest research into the low voltage drives market. Following a sales slow down this year, different regions of the...
Smart App Embedded with Artificial Intelligence Improves Operations in Real-time
The popular press dithers over Artificial Intelligence and the “young ladies” Siri and Alexa spy on your every word. However, there are real, practical applications of AI that can help us operate and maintain our manufacturing and industrial operations. Here is one...
Development Platform for Real-time Events
In a normal summer, I am wondering where my next topic for something to write about will come from. This, of course, is anything but a normal summer. On the other hand, despite travel restrictions and office restrictions and the like I have been flooded with...
NI Announces SystemLink Enterprise Software
Helps enable seamless test operations and data management across an entire organization It begins with data and it’s all about data. “It” being improving production and profitability and safety. It doesn’t end with data, though. A system is required. Part of the...
Here Is What You Can Do With Your Data
In the beginning were data. Increasing amounts of data. But what good is a storehouse filled with data? Especially when you have to build additional storehouses to hold more data? We all know that this is just a hole to throw good money into unless we can reap...
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