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Pinto picks for 2010 Top-5 Automation Technologies
Here are my picks for the top-5 automation technologies that will make an impact this year:
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Cloud Computing is here, but security is key issue
Computing wars will intensify this year, in hardware and operating systems, especially in the mobile arena. Growth in netbooks and smart phones and increased reliance on cloud computing will continue to transform personal computing from old markets dominated by Microsoft's Windows. The previously stable desktop arena will be surrounded by chaos, with lots of opportunities but no clear winners.
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JimPinto.com weblogs getting management's attention
The blogging phenomenon is transforming politics, business and society on a broad front. Weblogs, or "blogs" for short, represent millions of online comments linked together into a vast network of individuals and businesses. According to Business Week, weblogs are the most explosive outbreak in the information world since the Internet itself.
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Top-5 Consumer-Rech Gadgets for 2010
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, NV. is the largest electronics trade show in the world. This year, January 7-10 2010, it featured over 2700 exhibits, with the latest software and hardware, home theater equipment and innovative gadgets - the geek idea of heaven.
Midst the plethora of products and gaggle of gadgetry, here's what caught my eye:
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Featured Articles, Analysis, Reviews, Interviews & Views
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Automation, Embeded, CNC , Industrial, OPC, Industrial IT...
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What is OPC in 2010? It is all about the Tag
Nathan Pocock
talks that OPC is still the connectivity standard for Process Control, for ADI, a part of FDI and FDT and STILL the connectivity standard for manufacturing, and PLCs. OPC is a Unified Architecture, and OPC is an Express Interface.
OPC is three letters that are a lot of things to a lot of different people, but what it really boils down to is moving data and the Tag. Yes the Tag. Everything in OPC revolves around the Tag.
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Catching the Process Fieldbus : An Interview with James Powell
James Powell
talks about how the world of industrial commutations appears as a
multilayered, multidimensional, occasionally confusing mixture of fieldbuses, software packages, and media.
He shows in his book "Catching the Process Fieldbus" that when industrial communications is understood and then installed with forethought and care, network operations are both beneficial and painless.
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OPC UA: An End-User’s Perspective
Randy Kondor
reveals OPC UA (Unified Architecture) represents the OPC Foundation’s most recent set of specifications for Process Control and Automation system interconnectivity. This paper explains OPC UA from the perspective of the organization that will benefit from the connectivity, in other words: the End User.
The first form of OPC relied on DCOM for its data transportation, which was very powerful and versatile, but
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OPC UA Enables Business Intelligence – To Be or Not To Be?
Eric Murphy
reveals most people recognize famous quotes, but many people don’t know the play they’re from or the context they fit into. The same can be said for many familiar application terms from industry. Business Intelligence (BI) is a popular term describing the result of in-depth analysis of detailed business data from various systems. CRM, ERP, SCM and other competitive technologies all provide data and analysis, but how can these systems be unified into a complete business-wide decision platform? .....
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The future of Automation lies in Twitter
I was recently involved in a conversation that became quite heated about “whom” the exact person is that will make the decisions about designing the plant systems of tomorrow? One of the individuals involved in the discussion stated that the future of automation systems will lie with the large automation players: the Siemens, Rockwell’s, and the Honeywell’s etc. His theory was that the major players will influence the trend of how systems will be architected through control of market share, and evangelism. While I agree with some of his comments, I disagree with his corporate way of ...
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Finding a commonality among seemingly disparate enterprises is not always easy. This journalist recently interviewed eight distinct companies about technology, efficiency, and automation trends. The numerator was different, the technology solution selected by each company, the denominator, was remarkably consistent.
