Gary Mintchell

AUGUST 18, 2022

In this announcement, ABB and Red Hat , the open source enterprise software company, are partnering to deliver ABB automation and industrial software solutions at the intersection of information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT), equipping the industrial ecosystem with extended deployment capabilities and greater agility. .

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The first open-source digital twin of the Mcity Test Facilitythe University of Michigan’s center for connected and autonomous vehicles and technologiesis now available to the public. ” The digital twin works with TeraSim , an open-source traffic simulator developed by Mcity researchers. .

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Gary Mintchell

APRIL 27, 2023

This extension was requested by IT companies to ensure efficient and standardized access to important information: IT-applications need the ability to utilize the data from OT to use it in concepts like Data Spaces, Digital Twins and the Metaverse. These solutions often share information between multiple companies.

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The Fabricator

MAY 4, 2023

In an effort to better protect water sources, the EPA is collecting information from metal finishing companies and electroplaters involved in chromium plating, chromium anodizing, chromic acid etching, and chromate conversion coating.

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Robotics Business Review

MAY 28, 2024

Source: Comau If change is constant in technology, even established industrial automation providers must adapt to keep up. Source: Comau Comau also shows picking, identification systems Comau’s Machine Inspection Recognition Archetypes, or MI.RA/OnePicker In March, Intrinsic co-founded the Open Source Robotics Alliance ( OSRA ).

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Gary Mintchell

APRIL 16, 2024

Currently, manufacturers struggle to translate compliance initiatives into making informed decisions during the product design phase due to outdated data systems and data silos. Here is one by a company called Makersite who touts their new approach called product lifecycle intelligence (PLI). Oops, many still do that, too.

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Gary Mintchell

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

We appreciate and understand our users need for products and systems that integrate well together and allow for collaboration of edge and cloud data sources. The combination of PlantPAx and FactoryTalk DataMosaix provides a leading industrial Data Ops platform that supports OPC-UA, provides contextualization of data from multiple sources.

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Robotics Business Review

MAY 24, 2024

The Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF) yesterday released ROS 2 Jazzy Jalisco. Intrinsic, a spinout of the X moonshot division of Alphabet in mid-2021, acquired the Open Source Robotics Corporation in late 2022. Actions now report their type information – i.e. ros2 action type action_name returns the action type.

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Cisco Industrial Automation

APRIL 27, 2022

Unmanaged switches move information between devices—but that’s it. Just as IT does, you can use that information to find opportunities to increase operational efficiency, spot security vulnerabilities that need patching, and establish security policies. Today, OT can borrow IT’s tools and techniques to modernize production networks.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2024

The report also included information about robot density worldwide. Source: IFR South Korea was the most automated country by robot density in 2022, according to the IFR. Source: IFR As a whole, Asia had a robot density of 168 units per 10,000 employees in 2023 in the manufacturing industry, according to the IFR.

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Gary Mintchell

DECEMBER 14, 2023

All three copilots contextualize, process, and analyze data from various manufacturing sources. It interacts across all relevant data sources for critical asset processes, delivering targeted user assistance, recommends actions, and forecasts plant performance through contextual, proactive insights and automated workflows.

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Gary Mintchell

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Sparkplug has been developed as open source way for engineers to standardize their messages from IIoT devices to databases. The Eclipse Foundation , one of the world’s largest open source software foundations, in collaboration with the Eclipse Sparkplug Working Group, announced that the Sparkplug 3.0

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Robotics Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2024

ObotX offers its system with an open-source license that makes all content, patents, drawings, instructions, and software, free to use for personal and research purposes. ObotX provides more information about Elon at its Patreon site. The company is looking for partners to take “Elon” to market.

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Gary Mintchell

MAY 2, 2024

IRIS Foundry has prebuilt connectors to extract data from IT, OT, and enterprise data sources into polyglot dataops storage to ensure versatile handling and integration of multiple data contexts. The result is a dynamic industrial knowledge graph, simplifying access to and navigation of information.

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Drives & Controls

JUNE 18, 2024

Sick has unveiled an augmented reality (AR) app that merges machine, sensor and diagnostic information with images of a real environment to display machine data and errors where they are occurring. It overlays the information on a view of the machine, showing operating data or where maint

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Gary Mintchell

APRIL 27, 2023

“Lack of interoperability is a key barrier when exchanging data and information between different industrial platforms. The OPC Foundation manages a global standard for secure industrial interoperability for information modeling and data exchange in the context of industry that scales from OT to the IT world. Bitkom e.V.

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Gary Mintchell

AUGUST 5, 2024

The combined power of these features contextualizes vulnerability data from internal and external sources, enabling organizations to close the exposures that pose the greatest risks to their businesses. Those of us in process control have dealt with the problem of too many alarms demanding response, many of which are not critical.

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Robotics Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Source: Applied Motion Products Applied Motion Products Inc. The CPBD-A-C module is powered by the motor itself, eliminating the need for an additional power source, according to Applied Motion Products (AMP). The CPBD-A-C allows for remote control of conveyor system motors.

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Gary Mintchell

AUGUST 26, 2024

They all try to inform industry leaders about specific areas of attack and vulnerability. New (to me) cybersecurity companies continue to spring up. Its biannual Cyber Threat Intelligence Report released Aug. 22, features top threats observed in the first half of 2024, and emerging cybersecurity trends. .”

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Mold Making Technology

MARCH 4, 2024

Source | Copilot The Society of Plastics Engineers Mold Technologies Division announces the first-ever Glenn Beall Scholarship for $3,000, as well as grant applications , for up to $5,000. Applications are currently being accepted. Application forms are available from JPKarpinski23@gmail.com and must be returned by May 31, 2024.

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Gary Mintchell

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The DTC and the OPC Foundation have worked closely in several open-source reference implementation projects on GitHub and have agreed to collaborate even closer. “We We are excited about working with OPC Foundation,” said Dan Isaacs, GM, and CTO of DTC.

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Gary Mintchell

MAY 14, 2024

This further information about the product comes from the press release. We can get to predictive prescriptive quality based on hundreds of variables. Predictive usage of sustainable resources. All this becomes more feasible by connecting realtime data from the edge to the cloud.

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Modern Machine Shop

JULY 15, 2024

Source: ShopGuru ShopGuru ’s digital work instruction software is designed for CNC machine operators of all skill levels. By integrating detailed job management and visual aids, ShopGuru can provide machinists with all the information they need. The software enables comprehensive job details management.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 9, 2024

Source: Cruise After a bumpy end to 2023, Cruise, the self-driving unit of GM, is restarting manual driving in Phoenix. Cruise disputes that it withheld footage or information from the DMV, but it paused all of its operations nationwide to reestablish trust with the public.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 6, 2024

Investors and investing Investment should come from venture capital firms, corporate investment groups, angel investors, and other sources. Friends-and-family investments, government/non-governmental agency grants, and crowd-sourced funding are excluded.

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E&T

JANUARY 6, 2023

VLC is like a wireless version of fibre optics, using flashes of light to transmit information. Instead of using radio signals to send information wirelessly, it uses the light from LEDs that can turn on and off, up to one million times per second.”.

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Gary Mintchell

MAY 7, 2024

Margo aims to deliver on its interoperability promise through a modern and agile open-source approach, which will bring industrial companies increased flexibility, simplicity and scalability as they undergo digital transition in complex, multi-vendor environments.

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Gary Mintchell

APRIL 25, 2023

Neither comes to me with information or invitations to user groups anymore. Industrial IoT platforms connect, collect and analyze data from disparate sources –including video cameras – unlocking its value. The first time edge compute and edge applications came my way was through IT companies—Dell in 2015 and HPE in 2017.

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Robotics Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2024

Source: Saildrone Two Saildrone Voyager uncrewed surface vehicles, or USVs, have surveyed 1,500 square nautical miles (5,144.8 They continuously feed data in real time to drive more informed decision-making across maritime security, trade, and sustainability, said Saildrone. km) in a north-central area of the Gulf of Maine.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2024

Source: MassRobotics There are plenty of robotics challenges, but many are narrowly focused on a specific task or application, according to MassRobotics. The organization yesterday hosted an informational session to explain its Form and Function Robotics Challenge. 15, and it will hold a mandatory information session on Feb.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2024

Source: Intuition Robotics Intuition Robotics Ltd. Source: Intuition Robotics ElliQ 3 brings generative AI to aging populations ElliQ 3’s hardware improvements pave the way for its software upgrades, which center around integrating generative AI capabilities. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based

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Robotics Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Source: Mach9 Robotics Autonomous vehicles, delivery robots, and aerial drones all rely on geospatial data, as do construction and utility firms. “We deliver a lot of information in different ways that are customized by what our customers are looking for. . Mach9 Robotics Inc.

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Gary Mintchell

MAY 24, 2023

Cyber Insights is designed to integrate information from multiple OT data sources in order to provide a customer with actionable insights into their facility’s cybersecurity vulnerabilities, threats and compliance, thereby helping reduce their overall cybersecurity risks.

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Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Source: Stäubli Sales of professional service robots have increased by 30% worldwide, according to the International Federation of Robotics, or IFR. Robots for mobile guidance, information, and telepresence accounted for the majority of these robots. More than 54,000 units (an increase of 31%) were sold in 2023. Click here to enlarge.

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