184 Standards are Important for Manufacturers
I've added a new podcast--184 Standards are Important for Manufacturers. Without standards, shipping by ship, train, and truck would be chaotic. Just so, developing manufacturing standards such as OPC, FDT, EDDL, ISA88, and ISA95 has had great benefit to manufacturers...
Empowering Frontline Workforce
My thesis holds that the proper development and deployment of technology empowers workers to better perform their tasks. The keywords from my interview with Webalo at the ARC Industry Forum in Orlando were “empower” and “tool”. The conversations centered on the...
Industrial Cybersecurity Solution Guards Against USB Device Attacks
If HMI SCADA absorbed about 40% of my ARC Industry Forum appointments, then industrial cybersecurity took up another 40%. Not all of them were the usual networking solutions, either. This one, for example, comes from Honeywell. It announced the latest release of...
More on HMI SCADA Manufacturing Software Advances
The ARC Industry Forum witnessed even more HMI SCADA Manufacturing Software news last week in Orlando. Yesterday I discussed the re-write of Ignition 8 by Inductive Automation. Today two more items. Yes, there was room for improvement in this technology area. AVEVA...
HMI SCADA Manufacturing Software Sees Improvement
A long-time friend from the manufacturing software market asked what I had seen at ARC Industry Forum. Advances in HMI SCADA manufacturing software, I told her. Oh, I figured that was such a mature category that there couldn’t be anything new, she replied. Inductive...
Innovation and Digital Transformation Words Most Heard at ARC Industry Forum
Rockwell Automation produced a couple of press releases at the ARC Industry Forum last week in Orlando managing to work both phrases into its news. During my one-on-one interview during the week, the conversation focused on what I discovered was a product—FactoryTalk...
Flow Chart Programming Editor Adds IEC61131
Programmers of machine control in the US still stick with the old Ladder Diagram editor, so Opto 22 adds it to its groov EPIC controller. This is sort of the outlier of the things I learned at last weeks's ARC Industry Forum in Orlando. Most of my interviews were...
SCADA Control From Mobile Phones
Advances continue in the venerable HMI/SCADA space. I got to see a preview of the new Ignition 8 from Inductive Automation [disclaimer: it is a sponsor, but they don't pay for content] at the Ignition Community Conference in September featuring enhance mobile utility....
Linux Foundation Launches Unified Open Source Framework for the Edge
This is another aspect of consolidation as the Linux Foundation brings several open source projects together under one umbrella. This action should coordinate development and speed access to the market. Among these announcements, I see that EdgeXFoundry the project...
Industrial Internet Consortium and OpenFog Consortium Unite
Consolidation is the name of the game for the past few years in the automation and controls market. We’ve seen companies on the acquisition trail. Not limited to for-profit companies, industry alliances and organizations have been consolidating as well. A few years...
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