Walt Boyes' Blog

Here's the video of the press conference from Monday, February 10, 2014, shot at the press conference introducing the work to date of the FDI Cooperation, LLC. FDI, or Field Device Interoperability, is the attempt to combine and extend EDDL and FDT/DTM so that every intelligent field device can be programmed and used in the same way, with the same look and feel software, … [Read more...] about Video of the #FDI Press Conference at #arcforum #pauto

Invensys (WHEN is the name going away???) announces SimSci APC 2014 Tom Kinney, Vice President, optimization of SimSci group discussed where they fit in the Schneider worldview. Today, Kinney is talking about Advanced Process Control. The slides show the overall benefits of APC, which are really known to everyone...optimizing operations is imperative to remain profitable in … [Read more...] about Tom Kinney Presents the New SimSci APC 2014! #pauto #arcforum #manufacturing

Okay, okay, so this is cool, this IoT, Industrial Internet, Pervasive Sensing, or what the heck you want to call it. But everybody who was asked about security at the ARC Forum Press Conferences responded with mostly motherhood statements (with the distinct exception of Nobuaki Konishi, of Yokogawa). Are we all going to stick our heads in the sand until something worse than the … [Read more...] about Is the Internet of Things Going to be a Security Nightmare? #pauto #arcforum #manufacturing

GE: Manufacturing Transformation Enabled by the Industrial Internet Robert Gates, global marketing director for manufacturing, and Ken Rawlings, product general manager of manufacturing software, talked about the industrial internet (GE's name for the Internet of Things). Proficy is about transforming manufacturing. Gates said he wanted to provide a roadmap to the Industrial … [Read more...] about GE introduces new Proficy releases to work with the Internet of Things #pauto #arcforum #manufacturi

Taking VigilantPlant to the Next Level: The New Centum VP Nobuaki Konishi, Vice President and head of Control Systems Business was introduced by Chet Mroz, president and CEO of Yokogawa Corporation of America. The New CENTUM VP Takashi Nishijima has been CEO since 2013. He will attend ARC next year for the 100th anniversary of Yokogawa. Yokogawa's Centum DCS was first … [Read more...] about Yokogawa pre-introduces the new CENTUM VP #pauto #arcforum #manufacturing