Gary Mintchell

I’ve written several times about how the automation market entered maturity some time ago. One sign of a maturing market becomes visible when companies begin divesting in order to focus on its core. This news isn’t exactly new, but it points to the trend.

Now that we’ve built upon Industry 4.0 and Industrial Internet of Things connecting assets, cybersecurity has become the leader among number of press releases coming to me. It’s the inevitable consequence of networking.

Expands the number of Nokia-owned and best-in-class industry applications integrated on the MX Industrial Edge (MXIE) to drive efficiency, productivity and OT security.

I saw HighByte people during my last trip while also taking a deeper dive into the values of Namespaces. HighByte expanded its portfolio into this area several years ago. Here is news of an update.

Two pieces of news from AVEVA blessed my email client while I was vacationing the past couple of weeks. This one about their partner program. The next post reports on the customer conference held recently in Paris more specifically about the Connect platform.

AVEVA Unified Engineering, the new enhancements will bring together global, multi-discipline, multi-organization teams and allow them to work from the same up-to-date project data in a common environment. Whether working in 1D, 2D or 3D, AVEVA Unified Engineering takes teams from working in siloed applications with document-based workflows to an agile, intelligent, collaborative digital environment. It further helps businesses to deliver optimized plant designs by enabling collaborative, transparent data-centric decision-making processes, ultimately enabling companies to deliver projects on-time and on-budget.

One market area still showing signs of technology life concerns Autonomous Mobile Robots. Once relegated to warehousing operations, these quiet workhorses move parts around many manufacturing plants.

OnLogic Powered by ZEDEDA integrates cloud-native edge management capabilities into industrial-grade hardware solutions to accelerate edge deployments and ROI.

5G private networks appeared to have numerous benefits for industrial and manufacturing companies. I’ve written many times about advances with technologies and applications. This news reports strengthened security capabilities. I’ve had reports of real-world applications of private 5G. How are you all finding it? Useful? A pain to install and maintain?

Augmented (Artificial) Intelligence (AI) must have a hidden marketing hype person somewhere in the metaverse. We must remind ourselves that the AI revolution-to-be has not yet really arrived.