Hexagon Unveils Nexus—a Digital Reality Platform
The invitation to the launch event from Hexagon raised many questions. The most important—what the heck would they mean by “digital reality?” First principle—it’s not the idea, it’s the execution that is important. Remember that first principle. I’m reviewing my...
State of XIoT Security Report 2H 2022
The latest trend among cyber security firms is to conduct surveys and issue reports. This report comes from Claroty’s Team82. They found that vulnerabilities disclosed declined while vulnerabilities found by internal research and product security teams have increased....
Industry IoT Consortium Publishes Guidance On Cloud vs. Edge For AI-based Industrial Applications
The Industry IoT Consortium, part of the Object Management Group, gathers interested technical people together to study and publish guidance on a variety of industrial connectivity applications. This one provides guidance for when to use cloud or edge computing for...
PACTware 6.1 Now Supports FDT3 and Expands Device Integration Model
Still catching up on news I learned at ARC Industry Forum in early February. This one is expansion of the device integration model enabled by the latest version of FDT. Earlier, I wrote about Migrating to FDT 3. I sat in a couple of sessions where a senior engineer at...
AspenTech DataWorks, Enables Customers to Unlock Value from Data
This ARC Forum company update looks at a new Business Unit of AspenTech called AspenTech DataWorks. Probably relevant to this discussion is a quote from Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Fooled By Randomness, “The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.” The...
More Thoughts On Emerson and NI plus Last Newsletter
My last newsletter coming from the ARC Forum of February 6-9. Sign up for newsletters by clicking on the envelop icon on the website or clicking here. The annual ARC Industry Forum was last week. It was great to catch up with many people I have not seen for a while....
Schneider Electric Launches Digital Transformation Services
My first digital transformation project in manufacturing was in 1978. We had an IBM Series 3 minicomputer. I procured (leased) a set of programs from IBM. There were classes and other training. I remember a trip to New York City. We put all current engineering data on...
ABB Latest DCS Linked to Accelerated Digital Transformation
ABB released a paper documenting ideas for its future of process automation that I wrote about a few months ago. This release takes the platform a step in that direction. Plus, ABB is relating its latest distributed control system release to improved digital...
New Leadership at Phoenix Contact Development and Manufacturing
Phoenix Contact promotes Davis Mathews and Heath Scoggin I don’t report on many personnel changes. I have known Davis Mathews and Dave Skelton for a long time. Congratulations to both. Phoenix Contact announces the promotion of Davis Mathews and Heath Scoggin as the...
Interact Analysis Market Research Shows US Up, APAC Steady
Many research firms send news releases. Most have suspect (to me) research methodology. I only had one grad school seminar and a couple of statistics classes, but I’ve also gathered considerable experience. So, my BS sensor is usually pretty good. After a couple of...
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