Claroty Unveils Zero-Infrastructure Cybersecurity Solution to Protect Industrial Enterprises
Finally, a cybersecurity news release that doesn’t try to jump on the latest cyber breach bandwagon. Interesting advance for cyber security. New Claroty Edge and enhanced Continuous Threat Detection give customers faster, easier, more-flexible paths to achieve wide...
Qualcomm Debuts Roster of IoT Solutions to Drive Global Digital Transformation Across Industries
Qualcomm is in release mode these days—especially concerning chips for 5G and IoT. Last month was one new chipset. This month—four more. These will power many devices for your IoT / digital transformation initiatives. Next-generation solutions deliver advanced Edge-AI...
Whirlpool Migrates SAP Systems to Google Cloud for Sustainable Growth
Are you using a cloud service, yet? The competition among the various big-company cloud services working with industrial companies is becoming fierce. Here is a win for Google Cloud—one that I’ve only seen active recently. Whoever thought that these would grow to be...
Slow Recovery Predicted For Post-Covid Industrial Landscape
One of my favorite market intelligence companies, Interact Analysis, published its quarterly industrial market update last week. The highlights: Slow recovery out of pandemic predicted up to end of 2023 or into 2024Manufacturing output growth calculation for 2020...
Symbio Robotics The Tech Behind Ford Motor Company’s AI-enabled Assembly Line
There exist interesting developments in robotics beyond all the excitement of collaborative robotics (cobots). Companies are working on control platforms agnostic to the hardware. Although AI (usually machine learning) has been around for years, marketers and media...
IIC Busy on IoT Front Publishes Standards Guide and Launches Patterns Initiative
Two news items from The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) came my way recently regarding work on IoT. One announced the the publication of the Global Industry Standards for Industrial IoT whitepaper. The other announced launch of an IoT Patterns Initiative. The...
Financial Risks When Delaying PLM Upgrades
Senior management have always been reluctant to invest in technology and especially upgrades once a technology is in place. I have seen instances where management lays off the senior engineers who implemented something like Advanced Process Control or Manufacturing...
The Open Group Open Process Automation Forum Publishes the O-PAS Version 2.1 Preliminary Standard
After my first meeting with Don Bartusiak, then with ExxonMobil, at an ARC Forum, I thought this was an extremely ambitious idea thinking that an open, interoperable, relatively easily upgradable process automation system build upon industry standards was feasible....
Partnership Brings One-Stop-Shop for Cobot Applications to Manufacturers Globally
The Danish collaborative robotics (cobot) tools company OnRobot has been churning out innovative robotic tooling in a stream for the past year. It also taps the partnership stream of collaboration. I’ve run across Vention at a trade show a few years back but haven’t...
Solar Power From The Fabric In Your Tent Or Awning
One of this week’s more intriguing conversations centered on solar power from your canopy, awning, or tent with Pvilion CEO Colin Touhey. Maybe in these post-Covid days of rediscovered al fresco dining, you may be able to have a fine meal under a tent with...
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