Steve Belich from Elpro Technologies, one of two worldclass companies based DownUnder, has sent me an announcement that Elpro has just raised the ante for wireless technologies. All of their wireless products will be covered by a lifetime warranty, retroactive to January 1 of this year. This is likely to be the first of many such announcements, since most sensors and many field … [Read more...] about Raising the Ante…
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Kyosei Honeywell MTL
Kyosei is the Japanese for working together. It was popularized by a CEO of Canon Corporation, and he used it to explain why Canon didn't make all the laser printers in the world, just the engines for them. He said that Canon could do better working together with other companies than working against them all. Honeywell certainly believes that too. Not only has their CEO, Jack … [Read more...] about Kyosei Honeywell MTL
Blogging the future…
My good friend Kathy Gill, from the University of Washington in Seattle sent along the slides of the talk she presented to the Agence France Presse meeting on Tuesday. The talk is about blogging, podcasting and RSS and the information transfer media of the future. Here's the link to her slides: http://faculty.washington.edu/kegill/pub/afp_2005. Best explanation of what's going … [Read more...] about Blogging the future…
The organization formerly known as World Batch Forum
Here's a head's-up! WBF has moved their annual conference back from May to March, where it used to be. It is scheduled for March 5-8 in Atlanta in 2006. http://www.wbf.org Chairman Maurice Wilkins sent this set of ideas for papers, and says that the call for papers will be out momentarily. Topics for 2006 Papers • Using the S88 model in continuous or discrete operations • … [Read more...] about The organization formerly known as World Batch Forum
Process Automation Hall of Fame
It isn't an accident that we selected the WBF for the award dinner for the Process Automation Hall of Fame. WBF, of all of the automation organizations, is likely to be one of the most important, if SAP and Microsoft support for B2MML and the jointure of S88 and S95 continue and expand. That said, it was nice to get coverage in a collegiate newspaper. Maybe two or three more … [Read more...] about Process Automation Hall of Fame
