Pandemic Becoming a Trigger for Certain Enterprises to Accelerate Transformation
We only need look out the window to understand that the current situation with keeping people apart to prevent the spread of COVID-19 has slowed commerce and manufacturing to a crawl. Wind River surveyed a set of executives in China and the US to see what they think...
Anchor Fabrication Improves Productivity by 200%
My first salaried position in manufacturing after leaving university involved production/inventory control, with some industrial engineering and manufacturing engineering thrown in to keep me busy. Production scheduling efficiently involves juggling many balls in the...
Podcast 205 — Digital Transformation is a Journey
My new podcast is live. When I would go to NI Week, National Instruments would always talk about solving big problems. I began to approach the history of digital transformation that same way. GM had a problem involving the changeover of machines from one model year to...
Benefit of Digital Transformation in Industry
I laid out editorial direction for a magazine I helped to start with two basic ideas: contribute to thought leadership in industrial automation; and, tell stories of intelligent application of automation where the “heroes” of the story were the people doing the work...
Restarting Manufacturing After The Covid-19 Shutdown
Someday soon we’ll be going back to work. Some, of course, are already working in manufacturing under the new regime. Many questions lurk for those planning to get moving again. To find out more, I spoke with Kim Wallace, executive vice president of Hire Dynamics a...
Try A New Source of News
While I scan a number of sources for news each day (never TV news, though), I have found a new source that I really like called Morning Brew. It's a short read and gets you up to date quickly. Links for more in-depth reading if you care to.
Harting A Partner for Industry 4.0 and IioT
Once again, in lieu of attending Hannover Messe in person, we attended a Web briefing. Harting held this one last week. I picked deeper information about a couple of technologies—especially “single-pair Ethernet (SPE).” It’s hard to do a complete Industrial Internet...
HPE Technology and Finance Counter COVID-19 Impacts
Partners benefit from HPE Partner Ready revenue threshold suspension, accelerated liquidity for distributors, as well as virtual training, demonstrations and briefingsHigh-performance computing (HPC) is playing a leading role in our fight against COVID-19 to support...
OSIsoft Launches Edge Data Store as Part of Its Pervasive Data Collection Strategy
In brief: IIoT edge software allows industrial organizations to store and send data from remote assets to PI Server or OSIsoft Cloud Services for full edge-to-cloud connectivity. The spring “conference season” has either been cancelled or gone virtual. The first...
Ohio Roofing Manufacturer Pivots To Parts for Masks Responding to Covid 19
The press release came just now, and as I looked at it I thought, “I know that guy in the picture.” It was Todd Miller, CEO of Isaiah Industries in Piqua, OH. We used to attend the same church. I put one of his metal roofs on my house (which helped me sell it quickly...
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