MESA White Paper On Semantic Models for Industrial Operations
A key purpose of an industry association is to educate the community about the different facets of its technology and best practices. MESA International (Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association) has an extensive white paper library available to members and...
HART Plant of the Year
I hope the people in my session at MARTS 2013 see this. Yes, using HART diagnostics does help maintenance and reliability people, as well as operations. The HART Communication Foundation announced that the Monsanto chemical manufacturing plant located in Muscatine,...
SAP Reaches for the Cloud
Sometimes we don't want companies to change. We're comfortable with our definition of the company, and it is difficult to see what a company is up to when they change. I wrote last Thursday about SAP and some of its new initiatives. This week is its annual SAPphire...
Gary On Manufacturing-Three Things I Learned at MARTS 2013
Watch for the launch of The Manufacturing Connection (www.mfgconnection.wpengine.com), my new project. I recently spoke at the MARTS 2013 conference and learned that: Maintenance and Reliability people are still not always included in new technology discussions that...
ABB CTO Banerjee Also to Leave
Chief Technology Officer, Prith Banerjee, who joined ABB in 2012, has decided to leave ABB for family reasons. He will be relocating to the United States where he will be taking another position outside the company. A successor will be announced in due course....
Hogan To Leave ABB
Finished today's workout, opened my computer and there was the shocking message from ABB media relations people--Joe Hogan is leaving the company for private reasons. Sorry to see him go. He has done a good job bringing ABB forward. His predecessor rescued the company...
SAP Wants to Own the Enterprise
The title of the post may be a bit reaching, but while I was interviewing people for background for the SAP/Harris Survey, I picked up some definite vibrations. A little history, first. When SAP brought together all the suites bundled as Enterprise Resource Planning...
Obama Administration Launches Competition for Three New Manufacturing Innovation Institutes
The Obama Administration May 9 announced that it is launching competitions to create three new manufacturing innovation institutes with a Federal commitment of $200 million across five Federal agencies--Defense, Energy, Commerce, NASA, and the National Science...
More LinkedIn Automation and Industrial Groups
I wrote about the new group for discussing Profi-related topics yesterday. Received a comment on the LinkedIn post I made about another new group, AutomationDirect System Integrator community. This is an interesting group particularly if you are implementing or...
Survey by SAP and Harris Interactive Reveals Benefits and Opportunities from M2M
“Machine to machine” (M2M) is proving to be as transformative as any technology innovation since the beginning of the Internet age. Survey findings released from a study conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of SAP AG (and check out the newsroom) highlight that...
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