Rockwell Automation

June 23, 2016

INNOVATION

Succeeding with Customers and Partners in the “Co-Economy”

3 min read

Cooperation, co-development, co-opetition. What does it take to succeed in the “co-economy”? Just as the “sharing economy” has changed the basic assumptions upon which the hotel and taxi industries are built, the “co-economy” is changing some of the fundamental ways we think about developing and bringing innovations to market.

April 15, 2016

MANUFACTURING

What You Missed at the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit

1 min read

I was fortunate to attend and present at the N.American Manufacturing Excellence Summit (NAMES) last week.  It was an excellent chance to listen and learn from industry leading manufacturing executives around their best practices for lean/six-sigma, attracting and training the next generation workforce, and improving operational excellence. I was very impressed with BMW’s vision, specifically […]

April 4, 2016

MANUFACTURING

Join us for a #CiscoChat: Closing the OT& IT Knowledge Gap in Manufacturing

2 min read

Join us on January 11 for a CiscoChat on how manufacturers can close the IT/OT knowledge gap, with subject matter experts from Cisco, Panduit, and Rockwell Automation.

March 24, 2016

MANUFACTURING

On the Road to a Manufacturing Transformation: Daimler Trucks Goes Digital

1 min read

Manufacturing is alive and well in the United States, even in the most unlikely places – such as the beautiful Pacific North West. The manufacturing renaissance in North America and the resurgence of the freight and transportation industries has powered the recent growth of the trucking industry. Our customer Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) is […]

Rockwell Automation Wins the 2016 Engineers’ Choice Award!

1 min read

We are pleased to congratulate our industry partner Rockwell Automation for having won, for the third year in a row, the Control Engineering 2016 Engineers’ Choice Award in the Network Integration – Ethernet hardware Products category. This year, the voting session saw more than 140,000 industrial engineers responsible for automation, control, and instrumentation technologies. The final voting […]

February 11, 2016

MANUFACTURING

Closing the Knowledge Gap in Manufacturing: Converge IT with OT

2 min read

Recently, the article “Making IoT Pay in Manufacturing” in Forbes caught my eye with a few interesting statistics from a recent study: 71% of manufacturers say IoT will have a significant impact or some impact on their business over the next five years (24% and 47% respectively) Yet 24% have no company wide understanding of […]