McMenon Acquires Flowmeter Line from ABB
This news came to me via a UK company called McMenon Engineering Services. It concerns ABB, too. To quote from McMenon, “A UK manufacturing company’s growth plans have taken an exciting leap forward with the acquisition of a state-of-the-art product line from Europe.”...
ABB Adds Power, Speed to Cobot Line
Collaborative Robots, also known as cobots, have added juice to the overall robot market. Just as I thought robotics was a pretty stagnant market, cobots arrived to bring automation to applications previously too small for the size and expense of industrial...
Research Reports Reveal IoT Cyber Risks Plus Value of Manufacturing
ABI Reasearch sent the results of a couple of research studies last month. I’m still catching up on an unusual amount of news. One report is on the value of manufacturing to the world’s economy. The other relates to Cyberattack risks relative to the growth of Internet...
Metaverse Solutions For Enterprises
Press releases and extensive news coverage provoked some thinking about the Metaverse and its assorted technologies—Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), eXtended Reality (XR), and Mixed Reality (MR). It’s enough to distort in one’s mind just what is reality....
Phoenix Contact acquires iS5 Communications
2023 is starting off with an acquisition news blizzard. OK, not that bad, but here is yet another piece of acquisition news. The Phoenix Contact Group has acquired Canadian company iS5 Communications Inc., based in Mississauga, Ontario. The provider of industrial...
Changes For Automation Trade Shows
We have two movements on the automation trade show front that are interesting. IMTS, the International Manufacturing Technology Show and formerly the International Machine Tool Show, is a huge event held in September every other year. Some time ago, organizers added...
AVEVA Acquisition By Schneider Electric Is Final
I had one surprise acquisition announcement today. This one is hardly a surprise as it has been underway for some time. Aveva today (Jan. 18, 2023) announced the completion of its acquisition by Schneider Electric. Here are the essential points from the announcement....
Emerson On Another Major Acquisition Hunt
My phone exploded yesterday afternoon with news. Emerson initiating a hostile takeover fight for NI (formerly National Instruments). Right now the figure on the table is $7.6 billion. According to my scanning of the news from a number of outlets, NI is developing a...
New Podcast Gary on Manufacturing Released–finally
Yes, after a rest period due to a number of projects, I've recorded another podcast--244 Industrial Metaverse
Relate With People By How They Are Not What They Look Like
This is post number 3,000 on this blog dating back to my experimentation with the genre in 2003 while I was trying to get Automation World off the ground. I have almost 2,900 posts on my other blog focusing on personal development. I guess these are my Ickigai--the...
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