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Where Operations Technology and Information Technology come together. Essays and interviews with Gary Mintchell.
A first summary of my three days with the Aras community in Miami. These PLM events always return me to the time when I did this sort of wor...
Episode 275. Why AI in Manufacturing? Why not? I explore how new technologies for knowledge work, unlike in manufacturing, create even more...
I was intrigued by an item in News Items by John Ellis quoting the Wall Street Journal regarding the continued slide in manufacturing employ...
Thoughts on organization structures and Rockwell CEO Blake Moret's experiments with bringing in outsiders and setting his own directions. Th...
We met in a conference room at an office in Barrington, IL. A place where sometime later a couple guys thought they'd screw me in a business...
An early essay by Karl Marx writing at the beginning of the industrial revolution argued that humans who were formerly craftspeople were now...
Why pursue AI? As a tool to help entrepreneurs add value to their companies. The appropriate roll out entails organizing small "pirate ships...
ICC 2025 Recap I recorded this as I was leaving Inductive Automation's Ignition Community Conference 2025 in Sacramento. The event team perf...
When I set initial editorial direction for Automation World, I was focused on exploring the Intelligent Application of Automation emphasizin...
Inductive Automation Chief Technology Evangelist Travis Cox talks with me about the newly expanded Ignition Community Conference and the bet...
AI has generated more hype and obfuscation than all the words from ChatGPT. OK, maybe I exaggerate, but the amount of scare talk is endless....
CEOs in a recent survey complained they were not seeing results from digital transformation. Too much complexity, dashboards too complex, in...
This podcast is sponsored by Inductive Automation. Two topics dominated my inbox this year--and will probably continue to do so. These are A...
Looking at Google v DOJ and Apple v EU, Gary draws lessons for industrial automation.
Many times in my career I have hired into a company during the initial surge of a market. Good jobs. Excitement. Opportunity to work on new...
Gary offers observations on the continuing saga of former GE executives running Boeing changing the culture from engineering-driven to Wall...
Gary discusses the current state of the automation and control market. Why it seems to be a stable market and why the media in the market ar...
Gary discusses productivity, slow productivity movement, busyness or pseudo-productivity. Sponsors Inductive Automation inductiveautomation....
I've seen successes of industry standards. I've also seen industrial standards struggle to break through the logjam of large companies drive...
Boeing is a company that has lost its way. I have no idea why the board has not sacked the CEO. The 737MAX program was a fiasco and continue...
Gary gives leadership growth tips based on Dan Lyons "The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World" and David Brooks "Ho...
After attending several technology supplier user conferences this summer and fall, a colleague asked why suppliers are emphasizing software....
Do digital tools have the effect of adding more things to our plate rather than helping us get things done? Gary looks at how software helpe...
My career spans the innovation to maturity cycle of three technology markets--PC, IT, Automation. I wonder what's next.
I went to this year's Honeywell User Group with many questions. They were all answered as you will hear. There were many questions begging f...
Gary talks about the successful integrations of software by Siemens since the 2007 acquisition of UGS. He reflects on early conversations wi...
Surveying the past of automation and control tech and the tech media market over the years, then taking a look at future coverage for Gary o...
Observations, thoughts, questions about automation and control market, the companion media market, and innovation. Thoughts welcome.
I presented a Webinar on April 5. You can find it here https://www.manufacturingtechnologytoday.com/frs/23189866/going-beyond-digital-transf...
Why is it that open systems work in IT and not OT. The work of the Open Process Automation Forum.
Update on the industrial metaverse essay and podcast given the Google, Facebook, and Microsoft news to AI, ChatGPT, and search ads. Thoughts...
Yes, I'm back after a long hiatus due to some projects that soaked up my time. Metaverse remains the hot topic in industrial technology disc...
Press releases come to me from a variety of sources. The topics are often in batches. There was 3D printing, then cybersecurity, now sustain...
Two developers reflecting on Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference in terms of Gartner's Hype Cycle--about getting enthused at the event...
Gary discusses 20 years of trying on headsets for manufacturing applications. Is the Metaverse finally upon us? Probably not.
Perhaps if President Nixon had read 500 books rather than watching 500 movies during his time in office... What happened to all the free tim...
There was Internet of Things, IoT, then Industrial Internet of Things, IIoT, and companies formed groups to build product and exploit the ar...
Gary discusses how to answer why spend the money, how we learned to build safety into machines and processes, and how we'll learn to do the...
Gary recaps the recent ODVA annual general meeting. Keynoter Paul Maurath of P&G corporate engineering discussed laboratory testing of Ether...
Gary discusses ideas around corporate sustainability and looks at what three automation companies are doing--ABB, Rockwell Automation, and S...
Gary ponders the state of the automation and control market riffing off the ARC Advisory Group / Control Global Top 50 by sales. Is this a m...
How are your New Years Resolutions coming? Quit already? Try a few tips from Gary about improving life and career this year.
I love irony. Like when people click on my consulting link and want to sell me consulting instead of asking me to consult. Also a quick trip...
Rick Bullotta posted a provocative comment on LinkedIn predicting a shakeup in the industrial software business with the hyperscaler cloud c...
231 Are You Being Served? While thinking about the proliferation of as-a-service models of business, thoughts of that 70s and 80s British co...
230 AR and VR AR, MR, VR, XR--what R we supposed to make of all this technology. We've been playing with the idea for more than 20 years whe...
229 Flying in the Clouds A beginning student pilot must only fly on clear days where the ground is always visible. Following much additional...
Sometimes we clutter our minds with what we think we know and leave no room for learning new things. In the process, we fixate on an idea an...
Imagine laying railroad tracks west from the US east coast and meeting up with a crew laying railroad tracks from the west coast only to dis...
Get outside. Get outside into nature, a park or something, to refresh your mind and body. Get outside your preconceived ideas and prejudices...