iBASEt Transitions to ‘Cloud First’ Development Cycle
The rush to the cloud continues. Companies that have not transitioned their products to the cloud in at least one of its guises lag the industry. Here is an MES company announcing its transition. iBASEt, the company that simplifies how complex products are built and...
Reliable Degassing in Battery Cell Production
The rise of electric vehicle sales increased demand for battery manufacturing. Many applications come my way. This example is something Festo can do with pneumatic and electric actuators. In an active demonstration, as shown in this YouTube video of the demo,...
Introducing Velta Technology–Cyber Risk Management
Craig Duckworth, President and Co-Founder of Velta Technology, spoke with me shortly before I left for two conferences. I’m catching up, slowly. You may not have heard of Velta Technology. It’s just four years old. They are trying to find a niche within the...
IMTS / Hannover Messe Chicago Recap
I didn’t have time to finish this about IMTS/Hannover Messe when I found myself in rainy Folsom, CA at the Inductive Automation’s Ignition Community Conference. More on that later. Here is a quick recap of my tour around two of the four full halls that comprised the...
Return of the Large Trade Show
IMTS / Hannover Messe invaded Chicago this week. I drove down a couple of days. It was huge. Booths populated all four halls. I did not see everything. Or even half. Hannover Messe (in Chicago) has co-located for the past three or four events. As in the past, the...
IoT Vulnerability Disclosures Grew 57 percent from 2H 2021 to 1H 2022
Security, risk, and vulnerability to digital hacks consume half of my bandwidth—or so it feels. Part of the security trends includes each supplier performing research and writing reports. Here is a report from Claroty’s Team82 revealing a rise in IoT vulnerabilities,...
Gas Analysis Solutions Center to Help Plants Meet Sustainability Goals
As surely as security has been a significant 2022 trend, so also has sustainability. Since early June, I’ve been in several conversations regarding work technology firms are accomplishing in this arena. I’ve talked in the past about Emerson and hydrogen. This Emerson...
Shields Up Against Cyber Attacks Due to War in Ukraine
At the start of the Ukraine conflict, CISA issued a "Shields Up" alert to all critical infrastructure in an effort to stave off potential cyber attacks from Russia. 6 months later, the proverbial "shields" are still up but is the U.S. critical infrastructure more...
Identify Data Sets With Orphaned Data Enabling Appropriate Actions
Steve Leeper, VP Systems Engineering and Marketing, and Carl D'Halluin, Chief Technology Officer of Datadobi, met with me recently to discuss data, unstructured data management, data migration, the company, and those poor little orphaned files and data left in storage...
Collaboration Boosts Process Automation Device Information Model
August was a month of collaboration news. After years of organizations aligning into opposing groups backing similar, but different, technologies, things are coming together. You cannot count this one on the fingers of one hand. ISA100 WCI, NAMUR, ODVA, PI, VDMA, and...
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