Imagination for Planning: Run the Play With Your Mind First
"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions." — Albert Einstein A good salesperson runs through the entire interview with her client in her mind while she's still in the car. A great college football running back viewed video of his best plays and...
Leadership in the New Year
Let's make 2017 the year of leadership in manufacturing. Lean leaderhip. When we started the magazine I ran editorial for ten years, one of the founders talked about how Lean and Six Sigma were so old that she hoped I wouldn’t write about it. That was in 2003....
Technologists—Don’t Overlook A Liberal Arts Education
Does anyone even know what a good Liberal Arts education is these days? To me, it meant that I could learn almost anything, express myself orally and verbally, appreciate arts and literature along with science. I was immersed in electronics and other sciences...
Technology World Continues to Shrink Through Collaboration
Collaboration rules the technical world. A professor who influenced me greatly was ex-CIA (ex?). He would proclaim in our international politics classes during the height of the Cold War that politicians might want to close borders, but scientists would never allow...
Interoperability And Standardization Drive OPC Foundation Activity in 2016
Interoperability, standardization, and collaboration were the key words for OPC Foundation in 2016. Tom Burke, OPC Foundation President, recently recapped a busy 2016 for the Foundation. Adoption of OPC UA has been gaining momentum in the market. Collaboration with...
New Data Science Company Figures Out What To Do With All That Data
Data Science has gotten us to the point of collecting servers full of manufacturing data. We can do some analytics. But there are miles to go before we sleep. This press release crossed my email stream last week. I haven't time to interview the founder--that will come...
Internet of Things IP Testing Service
A useful Internet of Things (IoT) requires interoperability; and, interoperability requires testing to assure that thing work together. Here is news of a test lab for IPv6. The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), an independent provider...
Manufacturing Leaders Consider The Impact Of A Trump Presidency
Well, we have a new US President coming into power in January. What impact will President Trump along with a Republican House and a Republican Senate have on manufacturing? Even at this point with a month until inauguration, we are getting a glimpse, but it’s still a...
IT and OT Training for Industrial Ethernet
Industrial IP Advantage has launched an eLearning course focused on IT/OT integration for Industrial Ethernet. This is the fourth in a series of training courses designed to meet the emerging needs of control engineers and IT professionals tasked with deploying a...
Swift Sensors Launches Cloud Wireless Sensor System
Imagine what you could know about your plant or factory if you could get many more sensors around the area. This was the dream behind the development of robust wireless sensor networks for industrial and manufacturing applications. Here is a new entrant bearing much...
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