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Market Dynamics

Gary Mintchell

The latest was automation where a few of us started a magazine to cover it. This podcast began life in 2007 as Automation Minutes. Then a consumer product company where Consumer Reports published a poorly researched article—but the external market also changed. Then PC peripherals. The market was good for about 10 years.

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Jeff Burnstein, president of A3, shares top automation trends for 2023

Automation Mag

Advances in automation technologies are transforming the industrial manufacturing landscape. Automation experts share their predictions on trends that Canadian manufacturers need to watch out for in 2023 and respond to accordingly. Those that don’t automate are getting left behind. 2022 was no different.

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Kivnon answers questions about bankruptcy, AGV plans

Robotics Business Review

Kivnon Logstica last month entered bankruptcy as the company attempts to restructure and reformulate the Spanish provider of automated guided vehicles, or AGVs. Register now Kivnon to continue support Kivnon said it has installed over 6,000 robots worldwide since its founding in 2007, and its portfolio includes 10 different models of AGVs.

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More Thoughts On Emerson and NI plus Last Newsletter

Gary Mintchell

My first reaction was somewhat negative thinking from an automation point of view. When I first became an editor, he was a vice president of an automation technology provider. We had many meetings where he extolled the virtues of Ethernet in automation. Sometimes more information is gleaned in hallway conversations, though.

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30 Years of Blogging

Gary Mintchell

When we had Automation World up and running in late 2003, I began exploring. The sales people at Automation World wanted to tie me to the brand, so I renamed it Gary Mintchell’s Feed Forward—the title of my monthly editorial. And he is still going. My first site was built on Winer’s Radio Userland—Gary’s Radio Weblog. It’s all cool.

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Worker’s safety: Signs that it’s time to automate

Manufacturer's Monthly

It’s imperative that businesses take a careful look at the signs of stress and strain injuries among workers to decide whether it’s time to pivot to automation.”. Collaborative automation is changing the landscape as we know it and is empowering employees,” he said. Is it time to automate? Empowering employees.

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6,000 Blog Posts, 20 Years Writing About Technology and Strategy

Gary Mintchell

Dave, Jane, and I along with Jim, Wes, and Mike started Automation World in 2003. I have a second blog ongoing since about 2007 that focuses on personal and spiritual development called Faith Venture just because I have many and varied interests. We came to Automation World from Control Engineering (both magazines still exist).