What the Best Mentors Do
Can you think of a mentor who has helped you grow either personally or professionally? Perhaps a teacher? A boss early in your career? When have you mentored someone? How did it work out? I can remember a teacher or two who helped guide me. My first supervisor in...
Virtual Appliance Provides Entry Point for Small Deployments
A short blurb on a product that I didn’t know that Rockwell Automation had—a rack-mount compute platform that can be used as a virtual machine server. The information did not come through a traditional press release. It was a New Product Spotlight with a request to...
Open Source IoT Project Reaching Maturity
It is great to see things mature--whether kids or adults or technologies. Or an open source project called EdgeX Foundry. Yesterday I had the pleasure of two exciting teleconferences regarding the latest release of EdgeX Foundry, named Edinburgh, from the Linux...
Manufacturing Jobs Surveys Highlight Positive and Negative
Everyone worries about manufacturing jobs. The topic comprises talking points for politicians. Economists can't figure out jobs and wages (but they can't figure out much with all their differential equations and such but never actually working anywhere). Manufacturing...
Sending Information to The Manufacturing Connection
I receive enough feedback to believe that this is a well read blog in the industry. Not bad for what may be the only independent blog in the industry. Others I read are good (I continue to point readers to Jim Cahill's Emerson Automation Experts as the model for doing...
SCADA in the Cloud Developer Acquired by Emerson
When I was as-a-service offerings in the wake of my trip to HPE Discover 2019, I mentioned Inductive Automation as an example in the industrial market. There is actually another company. I’ve never heard about it—bad on my part. It’s called Zedi Solutions. I didn’t...
Industrial Internet of Things Maturity Assessment Explorer
I’ve been off for most of the past week celebrating Independence Day and family birthdays. For those of you in the US, I hope you had a restful time off and enjoyed some fireworks displays. And now, back to what’s happening in the industrial world. The Industrial...
New Take On Edge Embedded Computing
I’ve been writing about how IT companies are taking their powerful compute platforms to the edge. Here is a balance view from an industrial network switch company combining LTE with Ethernet and embedding HMI/SCADA. Interestingly, it includes Node-RED and MQTT...
Forging Abundance, Engineering the Big Challenges
Do you want to devote your life and engineering talents building social websites designed to trick people into giving you their personal data so that your company can sell it and the founder and his friends become billionaires? Or, would you rather do something...
Automation Experience Center plus Automation Cybersecurity News
Industrial Automation. I guess sometimes it’s good and sometimes not. Tesla had difficulty ramping up production on its low-end vehicle. Elon Musk blamed automation for his problems. Well maybe it was vaguely automation. But maybe they tried automating too much, or...
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