OPC Foundation News From Hannover
A little news emanating from Hannover. I’ll have much more. This is one of few still dredging up the Industrie 4.0 term. It also brings up a concept dear to me—interoperability. Bitkom and the OPC Foundation cooperate for the common goal of establishing and...
Streaming Video With AI Assisted Analytics
Imagine that you don’t have people to just stand and observe and take notes over three shifts a day for a week or so. What if you could position a few cameras in strategic locations. The video is captured and run through analytics. Engineers, operators, and managers...
ODVA Adds Process Profiles to EtherNet/IP
ODVA announced that process device profiles have been added to The EtherNet/IPTM Specification to provide automation practitioners with another critical tool to help optimize plant operations. Process device profiles provide a standard format for process variables and...
FDT Group Welcomes Two New Board Members
In the category of people moving on and qualified replacements needed, this post-Hannover news came to me from FDT Group. I’ve known and interviewed Paul Brooks for many years. I don’t know Mr. Birkhofer, but I’m sure these are great additions to the board. FDT Group,...
Nokia Expands Industrial Edge Offerings
The first time edge compute and edge applications came my way was through IT companies—Dell in 2015 and HPE in 2017. They both still have edge devices and “edge-to-cloud” strategies. Neither comes to me with information or invitations to user groups anymore. Even...
Betacom Unveils Private 5G Ecosystem with Private Wireless Networks
Betacom recently talked with me about its new Private 5G Ecosystem. To me the term ecosystem implies a (usually) proprietary software platform where a company hopes to recruit a critical mass of companies to commit. This ecosystem looks more like what I’ve been taught...
How Plex Uses AI for Supply Chain Planning
Ara Surinam, VP Product Management at Plex which is now a Rockwell Automation company (one of the ways Rockwell moved into the cloud), talked with me recently about using AI/ML (artificial intelligence as machine learning) in an industrial software setting. Ara was...
Autonomous Manufacturing?
This is from last week's newsletter. You can subscribe by clicking on the envelope icon or here. The media are going all things AI crazy. I see it on LinkedIn, Twitter, rss newsfeed. Then I see some manufacturing specific references discussing autonomous plants. On a...
Meeting A New IT Company
[Updated 5/23/23] An invitation came my way to talk with Alwyn Joseph, Chief Revenue Officer for FPT-USA. OK, I said, just what is that company? In brief, FPT is an information technology and services company based in Vietnam. This from a recent press release: FPT...
The End Of Print Computer Magazines
John Gruber writing at Daring Fireball refers to Harry McCracken’s blog post about the end of print production of Maximum PC and MacLife. This signals the end of an era. I learned a tremendous amount of computer science and practical computing from Byte back in the...
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