Training
Seth Godin says this much better than I have (from The Practice). If you want to get in shape, it’s not difficult. Send an hour a day running or at the gym. Do that for six months or a year. Done. That’s not the difficult part. The difficult part is becoming the kind...
Unstructured Data Management
Welcome to the age of Industrial Internet of Things and the need for unstructured data management. Analysts talked for years about the amount of data generated (or could be generated if digital) from manufacturing. We have arrived at that age. Datadobi is one company...
High Speed Robotics Alignment Software
Robotics has been more in the news coming my way the past six months than in perhaps the past six years. Much development shows progress, but I hope for more expansion of applications into areas of life adjacent to manufacturing. Society will face future worker...
OPC Foundation Presentation Week
Every morning last week I listened to presentations from OPC Day--which was actually a week. Once again this year was a conference reporting on a vast amount of work done by volunteers from numerous companies that push forward the cause of interoperability in...
Siemens Continues To Build Additive Manufacturing Momentum
Siemens reserved a central location at its stand at Hannover Messe for additive manufacturing (AM) the last couple of times I made it to Germany. It has released a few news items lately revealing an ever expanding AM initiative. This news announces opening of a new...
Supply Chain Cyber Security
I've noted that cyber security news has been inundating my inbox. As well, media relations people have identified me as a supply chain writer/analyst. It's one of those indications of the broadening of the market I serve. This news concerns the first product of a new...
Rockwell Automation Sustainability Report
Sustainability news reports lag security in my inbox, but these show how enterprises lead the way. When I first wrote on this topic, the phrase was "green". Gradually we began to use the term sustainable and then broadened the definition significantly. Following are...
AVEVA Named to Fast Company Most Innovative List
Here's a quick news item from AVEVA. They've let me know that it was named as one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in 2022 and specifically recognized as #4 in the Manufacturing category. AVEVA was selected for driving digital transformation and...
HPE Blog Discusses Zero Trust on IoT Devices
I was invited into the HPE Influencer group through its development of an IoT group. I wrote a couple of times about the Texmark refinery in Houston that was a cool IoT application. The IoT thing cooled there like everywhere--morphing into "edge-to-cloud" technology...
New MESA Model A Framework for Smarter Manufacturing
I was actively involved with the MESA International organization when it developed the last MES Model. The organization changed and I gradually slipped away. But it is still busy promoting MES (or MOM) software applications although they've adopted the term Smart...
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