Joint Venture Creates Sensia, Oil and Gas Industry Integrated Automation Solutions Provider
Rockwell Automation has been busy since its rejection of a take over offer by Emerson some 15 months ago—something that sent its stock price into a bit of a dive. It made a major investment in PTC in order to have some say and a close relationship to its Internet of...
Chip Enhances Robotics Platform
More news filtering out of Barcelona and the Mobile World Conference. Someday, maybe I’ll make it there. Lots of news. This one about enhancing robotics. In this announcement, Qualcomm has launched Qualcomm Robotics RB3 Platform. The platform is the company’s first...
Last of ARC Industry Forum Interview Notes
ARC’s annual Industry Forum gathering provided an opportunity rare these days of meeting with a wide variety of people and companies. Today’s post summarizes most of the rest of information gathered not previously published. Interestingly, IIoT was not a major theme....
Much Is Happening At The Edge
The world is in Barcelona at the Mobile World Conference (except for me). But that’s OK, I’m seeing plenty of news. Much of it relates to the Edge. And as 5G heats up, expect that to emphasize compute at the edge even further. (Talk of 6G is best left for politicians...
Exercise the Curiosity Muscle for Personal Success
A team developing a Web application named itself Curious George team. You know, the mischievous monkey who was adopted by The Man in the Yellow Hat. Curiosity defined its personality. I thought, "How cool is that?" A constant reminder to work that particular muscle....
Great Leaders
I'd heard about Jim Collins and perhaps even read one of his books. But I'd forgotten until I listened to a podcast interview with Tim Ferriss. I bought a couple of his well-researched books. I mean, I write alone. He had 21 researchers for Good to Great. He pursued...
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...
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