Entrepreneurial Thinking From The Masters
Many entrepreneurs or people with entrepreneurial thinking within companies read this blog. Many more of you should be--entrepreneurs, that is. I picked up this bit of wisdom of Elon Musk from the Abundance Newsletter of Peter Diamandis (Singularity University). Check...
Companies Discover IoT Applications Boost Performance
I am still stung by a comment and ensuing discussion made by a maintenance manager during a talk I gave a few years ago. The talk was an early IoT description of networks, data, information, and the like. The guy raised his hand and said, "The engineers in my plant...
The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling
How about you? Do you feel like you know everything you need to know? Do you hate asking people for directions? Whether you are in business or ministry or family–do you have all the answers? While I usually write about technology, I've learned the hard way that people...
Aras Acquires MRO Capability to Extend Digital Thread to the Field
The industrial software market seems to be undergoing quite a consolidation right now. I’m not entirely sure what that means. There are a couple of underlying factors but slowing growth of the market is often one. Another is that larger companies usually find it more...
Supplementing EtherCAT with TSN for Use in Heterogeneous Networks
Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) defines the future of networking. Most of the specifications have been agreed upon by the IEEE 802 committee, only a few remain to be completed. I have written a White Paper describing OPC UA over TSN for information communication. This...
IoT Outlook For 2018 In Industry
I’m all about IoT and digitalization anymore. This is the next movement following the automation trend I championed some 15 years ago. Last month, I started receiving emails about predictions for 2018. Not my favorite topic, but I started saving them. Really only...
Open Platform and Digital Twin
I am a sucker for open platforms. When the PR agency wrote with a teaser about discussing open platforms with Marc Lind, SVP Strategy at Aras, a PLM supplier, I bit. They threw in “digital twin” and “digital thread” as the topping and cherry atop the sundae, and the...
Improve the Climate And Also Improve Business Profits
Let's put aside politics and just talk good business strategies. I had a boss. He was quite conservative on the political scale. It was the time of "sustainability". He thought that was only liberal, tree-hugger gibberish. I told him--think money. Less waste equals...
Isn’t It Time We Considered Making Moral Decisions
Sometimes we must step back from a narrow view of technology and consider how (or if) we make moral decisions. I saw this in a blog called Big Think. It's a good starting place for thinking. A few weeks ago we talked to Dr. Fred Guy, Director of the Hoffberger Center...
Accelerate Manufacturing Repair Processing
Here is an interesting idea in the manufacturing services meets social media area. Let me know if you use this and how it worked. Volt480, which is dedicated to helping manufacturers recover faster during downtime, announced a new app that quickly connects plant...
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