Honeywell Preparing for Annual HUG Customer Conference
Global media representatives gathered digitally last week to "chat" with Honeywell Process Solutions' CEO Darius Adamczyk. His agenda was to promote the upcoming Honeywell User Group (HUG) coming up in Phoenix on June 16-22. It also marked his first anniversary in the...
Smart Devices and Services: How CDMA Technology is Driving the Connected Age
Glen Almendinger of Harbor Research has been following the Internet of Things / M2M / Pervasive Internet space for years. Much of the original intent was to use cellular technology as the broadband. That probably held things back a little, since in the early days...
News For Manufacturing and Production
For today, I've accumulated a bunch of relevant news from around the automation and operations management areas. SCADA in the Cloud [picture]ABB, the power and automation technology group, announced a partnership with GlobaLogix to provide a new SCADA...
Manufacturing Simulation Loop Closing As Dassault Systèmes to Acquire Apriso
Dassault Systèmes, France-based PLM supplier, has announced its intent to acquire Apriso, a supplier of manufacturing software solutions, for approximately $205 million. At least three times in the press release and the conference call company management referred to...
Are We Seeing the Decline of Corporate IT
Jim Pinto discusses the decline of corporate IT departments (among other things) in his latest eNewsletter. I thought I'd respond with a few thoughts. His premise is that the cloud and the "bring your on device" movements will cause a big decline in corporate IT...
Manufacturing Software in the Cloud
The "cloud" is still much discussed, and misunderstood, in manufacturing circles. My first conversation with a software supplier who used the cloud as a service delivery vehicle was probably ten years ago. The concept has been growing slowly, as software and...
Manufacturing Operations Software
Most of you are aware that I have left active participation with Automation World magazine. After 10 years and a small ownership shuffle, I just felt like there wasn't anything left for me to create there. Hopefully, you are all still following my column there. I also...
User Groups, Education Support and Other Manufacturing News
ABB Automation & Power World ABB (US) sent an interesting message to past attendees (I received it through my personal account, not through my media account) regarding its Automation & Power World user conference. The message puts an interesting spin on the...
Web User Interface and Content Marketplace for Process Industry
Web-based user interfaces for applications is becoming an expected part of the package these days. Even though the PR people who wrote the release for this announcement wrote as if this is revolutionary and new, everyone knows what a browser is and expects a Web...
Google Glass In Your Future
Google GlassThe tech world is buzzing with speculation about Google Glass. Robert Scoble, who made a name for himself (and probably got a big head from it) by first popularizing Twitter years ago, proclaims he'll never take them off. OK, his wife says that there are...
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