OPC Foundation Also Promotes the Open Process Automation Forum
Interoperability spurs innovation. After years of technological consolidation in the process automation industry with “distributed control systems” becoming ever more centralized, we are witnessing a resurgence of distributed, along with open and interoperable. Open...
Foxboro Promotes Open Process Automation
The future of process automation was front and center of discussions last week at the Foxboro User Group—The Foxboro Company being the process automation arm of Schneider Electric. During the week I was involved in quite animated discussions with SVP Chris Lyden and...
Schneider Electric Foxboro Products Offer Enhanced Visibility Into Plant Profitability
Using technology to help plant managers and plant teams make their plants more profitable. In fact, they can even track and prove their profitability enhancements. The Foxboro User Group met this week in Foxborough, MA at the company headquarters. Aside from the...
Standards and Interoperability Drive Innovation and Adoption
Standards that enable interoperability drives innovation and industry growth. For some reason, technology suppliers tend to avoid standards at almost all costs—and the costs can be substantial in terms of losing market share or momentum—in order to build a “complete”...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Enters Internet of Things Fray
The Internet of Things technology competition remains robust. I devoted Monday to a trip to Houston to visit the campus of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE). This was the old Compaq computer campus remodeled for a new generation. The occasion was the grand opening of...
Technology Is Not The Disrupter-Look At Business Models
(Photo by Alberto Brea) Technology isn't the business disrupter. How we use technology is. I was reading the marketing blog of Bryan Kramer, whom I've met at various Dell Technology events. He posted this photo thinking about marketing and business. Look at our...
Can IT Do Automation?
I wrote about FoxConn building a plant (maybe) in Wisconsin. “Retired” Rockwell Automation Communications Director John Bernaden commented on my LinkedIn post of the article: Good perspective Gary Mintchell. FoxConn's been trying to replace its Chinese workers with...
I’ve Seen Productivity From Both Sides Now
Maybe low wages leads to lack of investment which lead in turn to low productivity.
The Future of Work — Drug Epidemic Contracting Workforce
Employment is getting so tight that many industrial jobs cannot be filled because potential workforce can’t pass a drug test.
New Factory Jobs Coming To America–Maybe
We keep touting manufacturing jobs in America. An electronics assembly company has announced another plant in the US. When a process automation company lands a contract with a customer, it sends a press release touting the fact. But in process industries, the amount...
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