Deep How Uses AI For Skills Training
What workforce problem has populated every industrial trade press issue for the past 10-15 years? Baby Boomers are retiring taking decades of knowledge with them. How can the new workforce of engineers and technicians be provided the skillset quickly? Actually, new...
A Step Forward for Modular Manufacturing Control
While I see companies that are predominantly American rushing to capture open technology initiatives and make them as proprietary as possible, here is another predominantly German initiative pushing for using standards to move manufacturing technology forward. This...
Litmus Adds Digital Twin Support
There were a couple of process automation news items. Now, let’s switch to the industrial edge and talk data. Litmus announced the availability of digital twins for users of Litmus Edge and Litmus Edge Manager. Now manufacturers have a streamlined way to collect,...
Festo Connects To Emerson DCS
Quick news update from Festo—who is certainly keeping their PR machine busy. Festo now offers CPX valve manifold configuration to Emerson DeltaV DCS systems for fast, simple, and effective programming, commissioning, and validation of Festo-based pneumatics for skids...
Honeywell and Borealis Collaborate for Process Simulation
’m still catching up on a bit older news. One of the benefits of all this digital and digital twin conversation concerns simulating processes. These have uses ranging from training to improving processes. This news concerns a collaboration between Honeywell UniSim and...
ZEDEDA and Avassa Partner to Deliver Secure Edge Application Orchestration for Platform Teams and Developers
Innovation at the Edge continues. I’ve written about ZEDEDA before and have even appeared on a couple of their Web events. The company maintains momentum at this vital confluence of data. This announcement concerns a partnership with Avassa. Partnership provides...
Rockwell Automation and The Water Council Unite to Promote Water Stewardship
Catching up on some older news. Water is an essential resource with growing scarcity in many areas of the world. Several years ago, political scientists were predicting wars occurring over water rights. Any work by automation companies to help the situation are...
Snowflake Launches Manufacturing Data Cloud
Pundits and writers of the manufacturing market harp on data. Nassim Nicholas Taleb tells us in his writings that we can keep accumulating data until we drown. Snowflake has data management tools used by many to handle all the data. This is a new release called...
M&M Software Releases fdtCONTAINER and Developer Tools Supporting FDT 3.0
FDT Group’s latest significant release seems to be gaining traction. This release from M&M Software offers a migration path for users and vendors supporting modern intelligent device management and monitoring initiatives. M&M Software released fdtCONTAINER...
How Do They Treat Servers?
Pro leadership tip. Years ago the story went around that if you were in the final hiring process at IBM, they would take you out to dinner. If you salted your food before tasting it, then you had a fixed mindset and would not be hired. I have a better one. Are you...