Embedded and Edge Capture Attention At ARC Forum
I was so busy during the ARC Advisory Group Industry Forum last week, that I just couldn’t find time to write coherently. The keyword was digital supplemented by embedded, edge, IIoT, security, and transformation. The Forum attracted perhaps not only its largest...
Digital Transformation Council
Digital Transformation has generated so much news that company executives have begun ordering projects and task forces within the company to begin that transformation. The pressure on engineers and IT people increases with each new directive. To help clients deal with...
Industrial Technology Supplier State of the Business
A tale of the business state of two industrial technology supplier companies--GE and ABB. This is a great article tracing the heritage and woes of GE. While the company is still strong in all the basic industrial categories, it’s moves deeper in to financial and...
Habits of Entrepreneurs
I guess I'm on an entrepreneurial kick this week. Maybe I'm getting psyched for next week's ARC Forum in Orlando where I will be interviewing many new companies inhabiting the cybersecurity space. I'm not much on "infographics" and I downloaded this one without noting...
Greater Investment In Autonomous Vehicles For Manufacturing Than Passenger
Quick, when you think of self-driving cars and trucks and other news of autonomous vehicles, what comes to mind? OK, maybe an unfair question today given the Waymo v Uber lawsuit trial that began yesterday. But most of us think in terms of passenger cars rather than...
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...
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