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Check out Automation Minutes with Editor in Chief Gary Mintchell. Taking its name from Apple’s iPod, this is an Internet-based audio program.
You can go to http://automation.libsyn.com and listen on your Windows Media Player. Or, you can go to iTunes (or your Internet music source) and
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Here's a Flickr set of photos from the Packaging Automation Forum.
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Looks like our first Packaging Automation Forum was a resounding success. About 150 machinery builders, users and technology suppliers gathered to hear 13 speakers from the industrial world talk about what they are doing to bring new success to manufacturing. The speakers left no doubt that the future belongs to such concepts and techniques as modular software, industrial networks and information sharing. Read more
12:34:45 PM
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Yesterday was a travel day to Chicago coupled with a visit to my office and preparations for today's first Packaging Automation Forum. Those trips are always hectic, filled with meetings and long--but yesterday was especially long. We had an opening registration/hospitality time for the Forum. Read more
8:25:39 AM
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I just discovered this M2M (machine to machine) blog. More practical and less evangelical than most of this genre: Read more
9:03:02 PM
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In the ever-changing vision market, more consolidation. Cognex bought DVT last year and put an end to one of the most interesting and intense competitive battles in automation. Now Cognex is expanding into an entirely new market--vehicle detection. Read more
6:06:55 PM
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Witnessed the biggest fight of my 18 year career refereeing adult men soccer yesterday. I was an assistant referee and away from much of the play so I didn't really sense that much resentment brewing. But a hard foul, retaliation and a puch thrown (all in less than 5 seconds) ignited a bench-clearing brawl. And I (having run down the touchline to intercede) found myself in the middle of the bench. Fortunately they didn't go for me, so I could step back and take numbers. Three or four guys just went berserk. It's a sobering experience. Especially when I know that I'm the referee of the next game on that pitch between two sides who don't like each other. Fortunately, I had no problems.
6:02:51 PM
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Enterprise software supplier Infor has been quickly consolidating the software industry for manufacturing enterprise applications, and it has struck again. It is acquiring SSA Global. Infor is paying $19.50 per share in cash to SSA Global shareholders. The deal is anticipated to close in the third quarter this year. Read more
4:12:50 PM
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ISA is really starting to make some progress in its new push to position itself as a go-to place for manufacturing standards. It is welcome news. In what's billed as a "key" working meeting, working group members met April 26-28 to continue the OAGiS and ISA-95 standards convergence effort announced last winter. The purpose was to "delve into" the detailed technical work necessary to achieve this convergence of standards. Read more
3:56:37 PM
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The press release was interesting, but there was something slightly askew at first sight. That disjuncture was an Internet-based sales organization with a demonstration vehicle that will travel the country showing products. Read more
11:10:24 AM
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Gotta wonder about how the manager gave instructions. I just stopped by McDonalds for a quick sandwich after Yoga (no comments about a Yoga eating style, this is what happens when your wife has a meeting and you're all alone) and saw an employee (20s, male) dilligently sweeping at a small piece of something in the drive. Less than 5 feet away was a board laying right in the middle of the entry into the lot. He never picked it up. Saw him 10-15 minutes later in another part of the lot sweeping at small items. So, did the manager say "go sweep up the parking lot" instead of "please clean the parking lot"? How do we give instructions? Are we clear? Can we be taken literally by clueless employees?
8:54:35 PM
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Received a note from my old friend and former colleague at Control Engineering, Dave Harrold, about a course offering he recommends. Sis-Tech has an upcoming certified training course on Safety Instrumented Systems. Read more
10:14:28 AM
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