Your humble editor is blogging this from a hotel room in Orlando, where it is a heck of a lot warmer than it is at home in Chicago. Brrrr! As is the case every year, ARC holds a conference in February and all the manufacturing big dogs from both user and vendor companies show up. I am scheduled to meet with many, this week, including an opportunity to interview as a podcast … [Read more...] about New News in Time for ARC: OPC, Profibus, and ISA
Siemens Strikes First!
New NEMA Motors Project Rolls Out at Siemens Siemens goes for NEMA Premium market to drive growth in the Americas and around the world. Dipl.-Ing. Juergen Fuchsloch, Siemens AG's product manager for NEMA motors, and John Caroff, manager of marketing for low voltage motors at Siemens Energy and Automation Inc., put on a very interesting show to introduce Siemens' new line … [Read more...] about Siemens Strikes First!
Into the Lion's Den– TATA Consultancy Services Visits CONTROL
After all the articles we've written and the columns we've written (well, mostly Rich Merritt has written) decrying Offshoring to India and other places, it would appear that it took a lot of guts for Krishnakumar "KK" Nagarajan and Michael McCabe of TATA Consultancy Services to drop in for a visit with the Putman Editors. Not so! First of all, Merritt was not there, and we … [Read more...] about Into the Lion's Den– TATA Consultancy Services Visits CONTROL
…another in the series of CONTROL podcasts…
An Interview with Graham Moss, General Manager of Elpro Technologies Pty Ltd Elpro Technologies is one of two Australian companies to have attained the status of global automation companies. Editor in Chief Walt Boyes discusses the state of wireless in industrial environments with Elpro’s general manager, Graham Moss, who has some interesting opinions about SP100, Wireless … [Read more...] about …another in the series of CONTROL podcasts…
Another Poster Child for the PR Wall of Shame
Darn, just when I've sworn off doing it, another press release comes in over the transom that just _begs_ to be posted on what little space is left on the Wall. Enterprise content management provider, [name withheld] announces today the availability of [name withheld] Release 2 (R2) 2006 now able to orchestrate any number of active servers to manage disparate applications as … [Read more...] about Another Poster Child for the PR Wall of Shame
