Burke Named Global Strategic Advisor to CLPA
CC-Link Partner Association (CLPA, Nagoya, Japan) has named Thomas Burke to the new position of Global Strategic Advisor position. Burke founded and led the OPC Foundation to successful industry adoption until late last year. He concurrently holds the roles of Global...
Book Review: Build Your Own Business
Blog Review Start from Zero The other day, I received a review copy of Start From Zero: Build Your Own Business, Experience True Freedom by Dane Maxwell....
Manufacturing for Good
Here is one for all the politicians who think you can snap your fingers or wrinkle your nose and start producing overnight. This is a fascinating, first-person story about a software developer (Radek Pietruszewski) who became infatuated with 3D printing, learned CAD...
Smart Manufacturing Innovation Center Launched
Turns out that I’ve been following developments of US leaders of Smart Manufacturing (yes, a thing, so capitalized) for going on to 10 years. I’ll put a number of links to previous posts that begin in 2011. The beginnings were a group led by Jim Davis of UCLA, Jim...
Virtual Storage Platform Lowers Costs and Simplifies Data Infrastructure Management For Midsize Enterprises
Some analysts believe manufacturing generates more data than any other sector. Maybe, maybe not. But we do have the ability to rapidly generate a lot of data. Storage gets to be an interesting part of a manufacturing IT equation. This midsize storage solution from...
It’s Time For The Entrepreneurial Leader
I recently heard a presentation (no names to protect the guilty) where once again there was the adjective “unprecedented” followed by “we have never experienced more uncertainty”. My guess is that these people were under 35 years old. The privilege of being old, I...
ODVA Hannover Report, Busy Year For Partnerships and IIoT
ODVA held its annual Hannover Messe press conference today (April 20), however, we all sat at desks in our homes to attend this year. ODVA looks forward to in-person meetings at SPS in November and at Hannover in April 2021. Working with other organizations and...
204 Wireless Power for IoT Devices via Light Podcast Interview
In a turnaround, this time I'm doing an interview. First one in years. This episode is an interview with Yuval Boger, CMO of Wi-Charge, who talks about wireless remote power for charging IoT devices with light. There was a gap between this and my last podcast. In the...
Application Kits Simplify Collaborative Robotics (Cobot) Deployments
I spent years learning to program and apply robotics in manufacturing. Then they became less interesting to me as most innovation focused on bigger and faster. Enter the collaborative robot (Cobot) and autonomous robot product lines. Things are becoming interesting...
Where Is Shift to Digital Transformation Lagging?
My new office is getting organized. Better than my outside life. Remind me why we moved 200 miles north when I went outside for some exercise in 0.5-in. of snow with some icy patches on the trail. Didn’t do my Fartlek run this morning. But, I am relishing one of my...
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