Supercommunicators
I remember, barely, being a freshman engineering student. My mindset reflected many (most? all?) of my colleagues—“I don’t need no stinkin’ English and speech classes!” Math and science. What else is there? Then I got a job. Turns out that communication skills are...
Aras Follow Up With CTO Rob McAveney
Rob McAveney, Aras CTO, had a follow up conversation with me to flesh out some of the ideas from the recent customer conference. Perhaps the concept of an industrial metaverse is fizzling along with the Apple Vision Pro hype, but McAveney’s view is that it is all...
Why Should I Use Low Code Software?
The beginnings of a trend in manufacturing software has appeared on my horizon about mid-way through last year. This would be the use of low-code software for application development. I first noted it with some acquisitions in my market space. Recently I have begun...
Descent to Normalcy
This is from my recent newsletter. You can sign up for delivery by clicking on the envelope icon in the right sidebar. Several colleagues have traveled close to my new location, and we’ve shared some good meals with great conversation. Inevitably they asked for my...
Zero Trust State of the Industrial Enterprise Report
Technology trends form a large part of reporting here. Another trend is companies sending out questionnaires and publishing reports. This one from Xage Security asked about manufacturers’ opinions regarding zero trust adoption. Highlights: Manufacturers are worried...
AI Comes to Vision Software
Vision software for guiding robots news goes along with the burst of robot news. In this case, AI meets vision software. AI software company Micropsi Industries today announced MIRAI 2, the latest generation of its AI-vision software for robotic automation....
Fero Labs Redefines Trust in AI for Industrial Live Predictions
Fero Labs has developed software to help certain types of process manufacturing plants improve quality output economically when given a random mix of feedstock. I wrote about the company last August—A Better Way to Control Process Quality. They sent a new press...
Teradyne Robotics to bring the power of AI to robotics with NVIDIA
More robotics news with the added bonus of more NVIDIA AI-chip news. Usually I have written about Universal Robots and MiR, but each has been acquired by Teradyne. Looks like a new marketing angle with Teradyne Robotics. This company has collaborated with NVIDIA to...
ABB Unveils Mobile Robot With AI-technology
ABB has entered the mobile robot fray and enhanced the offering through the recent acquisition of Sevensense. This acquisition gives the company an AI-based navigation technology it calls Visual SLAM. The company also adds a new AMR Studio software enabling even...
ABB Opens Updated Robotics Facility
Robotics news seems to present itself all the time. I’m writing this from an independent coffee house in a small town in northern Illinois. The guy at the table behind me is quoting a robotic packaging system to a client. Weird. ABB held a big unveiling day at its...
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