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Upping Ante in Manufacturing Software Market

Yesterday I had an interview with GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms' Greg Millinger that included a demonstration of its newest product Proficy Workflow and its Service Oriented Architecture platform. This is a powerful application that not only meets the challenge laid by its competitors, but it actually ups the ante by adding one of the latest Microsoft technologies-the Workflow engine. The first significant thing is that GE Fanuc has finally released its SOA platform. This brings it into the same league as Wonderware with its ArchestrA platform and where Rockwell Automation has been going... Read more

Any manufacturing twitterers out there

I finally set up a Twitter account the other day. I'm too cheap to use the messaging on my mobile phone, but I'll see how this works. Might be good for days at conferences. You can follow me here. Or, let me know if you have an account so I can follow you... Read more

Whiteboarding

I recently ran across this whiteboarding Website for online collaboration. I haven't tried it in a meeting, but it surely looks interesting. It's called Twiddla. You can visit and give it a tryout. Read more

First WirelessHart products for sale

We're always leery when press releases come announcing the first of something. I'm sure if this is not exactly true, then there will be comments. But Emerson Process Management says it is the first process automation supplier to begin taking orders for WirelessHart-enabled products... Read more

Out of focus

There's an interesting blog called Zen Habits. The writer discusses how to simplify and declutter your life. In this post he talks about focus. There's an interesting blog called Zen Habits. The writer discusses how to simplify and declutter your life. Read more

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