Brace Yourself—Here Comes Another IoT Platform
IoT Platforms are all the rage. All God’s children need a platform, it seems. Most larger companies have a platform. Oh, and all promise it’s “open” to everyone’s connections. Then there is open source—check out Dell, the Linux Foundation, and others who have...
Online Master Automation and Control Distributor
While I’m writing short posts that my SEO plug in hates, I’ll answer a question posed to me last week. What is up with AutomationDirect? Yes, AutomationDirect is still around and thriving. Note: It does not advertise with me or compensate me in any way. Over the years...
It Is All About Maintaining the Efficient Plant
Efficiency—running a plant with maximum planned output, minimum waste, and best use of people and assets. A friend has refreshed and refocused his magazine on those concepts. Efficient Plant is the new generation of Maintenance Technology magazine. It includes the...
Podcast 169 Digital Transformation and Industry Consolidation
Here is another podcast. You can subscribe on iTunes or other podcast services. If you like them, please “like” or review on iTunes. I also record these on video and post to my YouTube channel. You can subscribe there, also. This podcast recaps several of my recent...
OPC UA Popular at Iconics Customer Conference
Iconics has been a long-time supporter of OPC Foundation and an early adopter of OPC UA. President Russ Agrusa has seen the power and benefits of OPC as an information model for open interchange of data among industrial automation devices. Thomas Burke, president of...
Hit Refresh The Remaking Microsoft
Turning a giant organization that has the great inertia can be likened to turning a large ship at sea. It takes great force and a lot of space. Such is the task of remaking Microsoft. Satya Nadella has been CEO of Microsoft replacing the combative Steve Ballmer more...
Dell Places $1 Billion Bet on Internet of Things
While at the Dell IQT kick off event in New York last month, I learned more about the breadth of Dell’s thinking about the Internet of Things. It began with morphing embedded computer as a gateway (with memory and processing power and multiple connections)., Added...
Data, Devices, Visualization Headline Iconics User Event
Gathering data, visualization on many devices and screens, and connecting with standards including OPC UA and BACnet attracted a crowd of developers and users to the Iconics World Wide Customer Conference this week in Providence, RI. “Connected Intelligence is our...
Testbeds provide real-world IIoT deliverables
The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has published the first results of its testbed program. A major focus and activity of the IIC and its members, testbeds provide platforms for IIC member organizations to think through innovations, test new applications,...
Rockwell and Emerson Head Merger and Acquisition News
I was putting together this piece on mergers and acquisitions when I received word that Emerson had been in conversations to acquire Rockwell Automation. Final price was $27.5 billion. That wasn’t sweet enough. The Rockwell board turned it down. Note: I feel...
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