What Makes Up Innovators and Genius
Walter Issacson has done deep research and written biographies of several men you could call geniuses. Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo Da Vinci (next on my reading list), Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein. I just finished the Einstein book. Reflecting on his career while...
Digital Transformation Impacts Manufacturing Innovation and Supply Chain
Digital transformation professional services companies provide value to owner/operators and manufacturing companies. But their services are often expensive. I have done some work on platforms such as MIMOSA’s OIIE (which is still in development) that are designed to...
Things Americans Are Getting Right
Despite all the news you may be consuming or posts that get passed around on Facebook (or inflammatory Tweets), Americans individually and with companies actually are doing many great things. Here is a list compiled by my new favorite news source--Axios. The bottom...
Thinking Through Rockwell Automation’s Edge Analytics Platform
The product Rockwell Automation executives most wanted to talk to me about at the last Automation Fair event was its new analytics platform. Immediately following the Rockwell event was Thanksgiving, then a trip to Madrid for a Hewlett Packard Enterprise event...
Personal Productivity For The New Year #10StepsBook
Michael Sliwinski, developer and CEO of the productivity app I use called Nozbe, has written a new book—10 Steps To Ultimate Productivity. He has been crowdsourcing the editing—obtaining ideas from a large cross-section of users. It’s been an interesting process,...
ABB completes EPC business model change
Ever since Ulrich Spiesshofer took the reins at ABB, he has led a transformation of the business model. First were a number of divestitures and management changes. Then some realignment and strategic acquisitions—notably B+R Automation enhancing its factory...
Industrial Cyber Security Holds Center Stage At Year’s End
Last week I wrote about the cyber attack on a safety integrated system probably in Saudi Arabia. There has been another attack. When media relations people saw that I had written about cyber security, I started receiving more releases. Cyber security Here is some...
2018 ARC Industry Forum to Explore Digital Transformation
The 22nd annual ARC Industry Forum in Orlando, Florida, Feb. 12-15, 2018, will focus on the new digitally-enabled technologies, approaches, and business processes that are disrupting the way industry, infrastructure, and municipalities around the world operate and...
Here Is A Hint Why I Chose Technology Career Over Political Science
Is it any wonder about the wisdom of dropping my graduate work in political science while returning to manufacturing and technology? Try these pieces of obfuscation this week from Washington. The big tax cut and simplification bill turns out not to simplify anything....
Are Partnerships the Future of Fieldbuses
I have been wondering about the future of fieldbuses for quite some time. These include Profibus/Profinet, CC-Link, EtherNet/IP (CIP technologies), and even EtherCAT and PowerLink. Even HART, though not technically a fieldbus, fits the application. And the merger of...
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