Digital Twins and Internet of Things Gary on YouTube
Some people have told me that they prefer the YouTube versions of my podcasts. Not sure why. Here is the latest one. 173-Digital Twins and the Internet of Things. Discussing trips to San Diego and the Industry of Things World event (Internet of Things, Mindsphere from...
End-to-end IoT sensor system adds user-defined customization
One of the many dreams spurring development of the Industrial IoT was the ability to easily slap sensors around a plant on units and equipment and areas that would report to a database with attached dashboards. The resulting information and visualization would give...
Time Sensitive Networking or TSN Now Embedded In a Product
Time Sensitive Networking, or TSN, extends and amplifies standard Ethernet as defined by the IEEE. The complete suite of specifications lacks a couple of areas, yet, but it is complete enough to begin using. NI (National Instruments) has been an early proponent of the...
National Cybersecurity Wars Require IoT Supplier Response
Critical infrastructure control systems have been under cyber attack for years. Need we mention Stuxnet, the attack that brought the issue to the public eye? Pressure has been mounting on controls, automation, and IoT suppliers to protect a nation’s assets. Siemens...
IIoT It’s All About Data—Machine-Learning Data Discovery
Manufacturing technology professionals have been working with data of many types for years. Our sensors, instrumentation, and control systems yield terabytes of data. Then we bury them in historians or other databases on servers we know not where. Companies are...
Alliances Advance Edge to Cloud Analytics and Computing
Much of the interesting activity in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) space lately happens at the edge of the network. IT companies such as Dell Technologies and Hewlett Packard Enterprise have built upon their core technologies to develop powerful edge...
Software Development Kit Boost Usage Of Robotic Platform
Whenever people hear about automation or manufacturing technology, they always respond with "robots?". Reading mainstream media where writers discuss manufacturing without a clue, they also seem fixated on robots. And most all of this ranges from partial information...
Siemens Talks Manufacturing In America
A small group of journalists and writers trekked to the Detroit area March 12-13 to glimpse the future of Manufacturing in America sponsored by Siemens Industry and its local distributor/partner Electro-Matic. We toured the local Founders Brewery facility, visited...
Misunderstood Robots
Two things I know--First, this is, and always has been, a blog. That means that it's personal and written by me. On the other hand, I'll gladly quote anyone relevant. Second, people who work for PR agencies are under great pressure. Evidently they get paid per...
Industrial Internet Consortium Releases Endpoint Security Best Practices White Paper
Security comes first to mind whenever we begin discussing connecting things in an industrial setting. And, of course, nothing connects things like the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). One place we often fail to consider in our security planning is at the endpoint...