Honeywell Launches Batch Historian and Battery Manufacturing Platform
I did not attend Honeywell User Group in Madrid this month. Searching for news from the event, I found a couple of press releases—one regarding Batch Processing, one regarding battery manufacturing, and also news that there will be an Americas HUG in Dallas October...
International Machine Technology Show 2024
Organizers of the International Machine Technology Show (IMTS 2024) communicate often about the automation section within the upcoming (Sept. 9-14 at Chicago’s McCormick Place) event. This will be a bit of a switch given the end of a long-time partnership for this...
Technology That’s Easy To Support and Implement
I can still remember the meeting to discuss technology, although I’m hazy on the exact date now but sometime in 2003. We had a new magazine. This was when ISA still had relatively large trade shows. My publisher called me. Seems there was a guy in our booth looking...
Nokia Survey Reveals Enterprises Are Scaling Private Wireless Networks
It always appeared to me that 5G and other private wireless networks held promise for many applications within industry. This report from Nokia reveals enterprises are scaling private wireless for additional uses cases and industrial sites. 45% of the organizations...
Orbbec Cameras Integrated with NVIDIA Isaac Robotics Platform
One place where technology and integration and partners advances lies in the vision and robotics area. This news concerns Orbbec 3D vision systems integrating with NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor robotics platforms. In brief: Gemini 330 cameras with built-in depth processing...
Companies in Maturity
My old friend Jim Pinto wrote a regular column for me at Automation World magazine. He was fond of predicting that Rockwell Automation had to be acquired because it had grown too large to grow at a respectable rate. He based that on two articles from the Harvard...
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Leads Series B Investment in Realtime Robotics
Investments seldom interest me. This one in the robotics area should be noticed when we consider the usual lifecycle path of a start up technology company. Realtime Robotics, the leader in collision-free autonomous motion planning for industrial robots, today...
Survey Finds Manufacturers are Leading the Charge in AI Adoption
61% Predicting to Achieve AI Goals in Just 11 months, Fluke Reliability Survey Finds Everyone is in the survey business these days. Fluke Reliability conducted this one and of course capitalized on the Artificial Intelligence (AI) meme. The focus was on our...
Predictive Maintenance and Inventory Optimization
Fluke Reliability partners with Verusen to Drive Predictive Maintenance and Inventory Optimization The new trend for 2024 involves spreading applications from the factory floor specifically to maintenance and repair and parts. Here is a partnership designed to enhance...
FieldComm Group Acquires FDT/DTM Technology
Ah, so go markets. Bitter enemies at the start many years ago. A gradual coming together. And now one big happy organization. FieldComm Group completes acquisition of FDT Group technologies. It all had to happen. I’m sure the member companies did not want to continue...
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