Gary Mintchell

JANUARY 5, 2023

Blake Griffen, senior analyst at Interact Analysis, writes , “The new motor & drives business would be an amalgamation of 5 current Siemens businesses/divisions. For those of us who are close observers, we have noticed similar moves by other companies such as Rockwell Automation, Emerson, Honeywell, and Schneider Electric.

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Gary Mintchell

MARCH 29, 2023

I write a column for an Italian magazine called Automazione Oggi. I’m still writing. But we wonder: Will anyone human ever write anything anymore? I’ve observed, learned, used, contemplated technology for much longer than that. Humans learned how to use each new technology for our benefit. Apple brought us Siri.

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Gary Mintchell

AUGUST 15, 2022

Om Malik’s writing has inspired and influenced me for decades. If we are always improving quality, then our customers will tell us to grow.” Do customers serve us? It truly is evil making money by trying to entice us toward posting ever more extreme (and stupid) stuff to capture attention.

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Manufacturing 147

Gary Mintchell

JANUARY 16, 2023

Today in the US is an official holiday observing the birth and work of Martin Luther King. He procrastinated over writing a report on birds for school. Just write bird by bird and you’ll get it done.”. But the hard work remains for each of us. I have almost 2,900 posts on my other blog focusing on personal development.

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Modern Machine Shop

APRIL 24, 2025

My brothers and I would be in the back seat, and when a truck would drive by with some steel rods we would write down the name on the trailer. If we want high volume, we need to be high precision, and for us to do that, we needed to learn Swiss. I was cleaning the shop, cleaning the tanks, helping with the shop.

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Sourcing 97

Gary Mintchell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

My career has wandered through a maze of standard setting from chairman of the standards and technical committee of a trade association, to ASHRAE and UL committees, to sitting in on meetings of some international technical standard development, not to mention researching and writing about ISA standards.

Manufacturing 130

Manufacturing 130

Gary Mintchell

JUNE 3, 2024

Even when I ditched the manufacturing world and became a magazine editor, the cycles still affected me (and most of us, right?). A small group of us started Automation World, which as editor-in-chief, I defined as control plus information. Do they mean machine learning and neural networks that we’ve used for decades?

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Automation Form Manufacturing Robotics 130

Gary Mintchell

MARCH 28, 2024

I’m writing this from an independent coffee house in a small town in northern Illinois. Robotics news seems to present itself all the time. The guy at the table behind me is quoting a robotic packaging system to a client. ABB held a big unveiling day at its Auburn Hills, MI facility that had recently been refitted and upgraded.

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Gary Mintchell

JUNE 28, 2024

Long-time acquaintance Travis Cox, Inductive Automation Chief Technology Evangelist, writes in Efficient Plant magazine (check it out—I had a very small part in that a long time ago and run by some friends) that SCADA is Changing the Game. The days of siloed or closed systems are behind us, as they don’t work for today’s connected world.

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Automation Manufacturing 130

Gary Mintchell

AUGUST 23, 2022

This era of the Internet of Things (IoT), sensor-driven real-time data, innovative unstructured databases, powerful analytics engines, and visualization provide us with new ways of thinking about organizing manufacturing. Each of these steps has taken us deeper into increasing digitization, vast amounts of data, and increasing connectivity.

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Fit Digital manufacturing Manufacturing 162

Gary Mintchell

JULY 29, 2024

Writer and computer science professor Cal Newport writes in his new book Slow Productivity about a condition we probably all have found ourselves mired in—pseudoproductivity. That is work designed to make us appear busy even while accomplishing almost nothing. When I was younger we called it “busy work.”

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Manufacturing 130

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

With increasing defense budgets and a strong focus on local manufacturing, these regions are challenging the traditional dominance of Israeli and US military drones. Download today and start writing your success story! <Download

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Manufacturing Aerospace 52

Gary Mintchell

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

But Google also has a fight with the US Department of Justice on it monopoly in search. He writes: Andy Kessler makes the case that the government shouldn’t break up Google as such break-ups are often pointless. All things to make them less inviting for customers to stay encouraging rather to “grab and go.” But I don’t think so.

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Automation Manufacturing 130

Manufacturer's Monthly

APRIL 23, 2025

Jack Lloyd writes. In Australia, all hospitals have a helipad for Vertiia, which allows for more efficient use of medical staff. Photo by Peter Morris/sydneyheads.com Founded in 2017, AMSL Aero specialises in the design and manufacture of the Vertiia, a long-range Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft.

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E&T

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The thrusters on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are primarily used to keep the spacecraft antennae pointed at Earth in order to communicate. Mission engineers eventually realised that the attitude articulation and control system (AACS) was misdirecting commands, writing them into the computer memory instead of carrying them out.

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Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

MAY 13, 2025

Aroop Zutshi, Global Managing Partner, Frost & Sullivan What Makes MetaBrain Different Unlike isolated AI tools, MetaBrain uses Validated Strategic Reinforcement Learning (V-SRL): Embeds domain knowledge into AI decision loops. In the advisory landscape, MetaBrain is a game-changer.

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Artificial Intelligence 52

Gary Mintchell

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And time to write since I wasn’t invited to the user group meeting in Anaheim starting today. This change, which is planned to take effect during Q4 2023, will allow customers to use Ignition Cloud Edition to build reusable, commercially viable multi-tenant applications. I’ll have a few posts from the event. Plenty of news.

Automation 162

Automation Manufacturing 162

Gary Mintchell

MARCH 20, 2024

After he retired, I asked John if he would write a column for Automation World, which he did until the month I left the magazine. It’s interesting for those of us within the industry. It is also useful information for new would-be leaders about how not everything goes smoothly and what to do about it.

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Automation Fit Manufacturing 130

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Shared Mobility Boom : Ride-hailing and shared mobility services are pushing automakers to rethink vehicle design for shared use. Growth Opportunity : 6D printing enables the creation of highly adaptable components using ceramics, polymers, metal alloys, and composites, offering unprecedented design flexibility. Industry 5.0:

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Aerospace Automotive 3D printing Manufacturing 59

Manufacturer's Monthly

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

It has been a pleasure putting together the stories for the November edition, one that was a joy to write was Elexon Electronics article. It is arguable very few industries would show that type of support to competitors and it makes us incredibly proud to be a part of the manufacturing sector.

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Manufacturing Electronics 98

Mold Making Technology

MAY 24, 2023

Leverage your mindset: give yourself permission, write down your intention and sign it. Step 2 : Write down your intention(s). ’s plans for American manufacturing, but collectively they all brought us back to “letting go” so we can move forward. .’s Let go of my traditional mindset. But change is hard.

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3D printing Automation Manufacturing 105

E&T

JUNE 15, 2023

And: “Human connections stay with us long after we have arrived back on home soil.” Some hardened E&T readers may have noticed already that the style of this particular book review differs from my normal style of writing: shorter paragraphs and sentences, plenty of parentheses and quotes, loose structure.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Tell us a bit about yourself. But secondly, you need to be able to clearly express this alignment in writing, with evidence. In my experience, there’s a particular style of writing that is desired by grant assessors – honest, professional and fact-based. How did you come into the world of Government grants? I’m also a muso.

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Manufacturing 98

Plastics News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

begins to take shape, with the first-mover states of California, Colorado, Maine and Oregon all starting to write EPR rules. It'll take a few years to write these rules, and it'll be complex. 31 CalRecycle meeting to start writing rules for Senate Bill 54, California's landmark EPR law passed in mid-2022.

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Supply Chain Form Sourcing 105

Plastics News

MARCH 20, 2023

Happy Monday and happy first day of spring to those of us in North America! She also writes about all the plastics featured in the 2023 home presented by National Association of Home Builders. This week's issue breaks open construction season with a deep dive at the housing outlook for 2023 and what to expect in 2024. 1-5 in New Delhi.

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Composites 97

Gary Mintchell

JULY 26, 2022

This era of the Internet of Things (IoT), sensor-driven real-time data, innovative unstructured databases, powerful analytics engines, and visualization provide us with new ways of thinking about organizing manufacturing. What if the time has come to rethink all these specific silos and strategies that we build software solutions around?

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Fit Manufacturing 147

Modern Machine Shop

JANUARY 2, 2024

That implied question in the article leaps out at me, because it reminds me of a very similar question that Julia and I, and all the writing staff of this site, face in our own work. AI can definitely write. ChatGPT can write in the form of haiku, essay, a technical paper, a campaign speech and more.

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Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

MAY 5, 2025

New ruthenium-iridium combinations, like those from Heraeus, promise high efficiency and reduced precious metal use, key for proton exchange membrane (PEM) systems and ammonia-based hydrogen transport. From cleaner fuels to functional plastics and green hydrogen, catalysts are enabling the industrial transformation of tomorrow.

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SMMT

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Such systems are also highly useful tools for transport firms looking to maximise time and reduce operating costs as they expand their companies. Whippet introduced tablets running Freeways mobile WebApps software back in 2015 and now uses a new cloud-based version of Freeway for driver walkaround checks.

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Compliance Electronics Function Fit 52

Gary Mintchell

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

of people already leveraging apps and other forms of technology to address emotional or mental struggles, according to a survey conducted by MetaBrain Labs that spanned across the US, Canada and Europe, this technology is a great way for people to jump into the developing sector of mental health technology. With 35.5%

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i4.0 today

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

PACSystems Simulator PACSystems Simulator is a newly incorporated component, empowering users to easily write, test, and troubleshoot control logic on a PLC emulator. Release, please visit: www.emerson.com/en-us/automation/control-and-safety-systems/programmable-automation-control-systems/control-software. Today Magazine.

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Automation Sourcing Manufacturing Industry 4.0 52

Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2024

This funding allows us to continue expanding Pittsburgh’s robotics business ecosystem by fostering a more skilled workforce capable of transforming both local and global markets,” she added. The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) provided the grant as part of $68.2

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E&T

JUNE 9, 2023

Some retained centralised authorship, while others were collective and anarchic in their creation, such as the universe of the ‘SCP Foundation’, created by a community writing wiki entries for the fictional secret organisation. The internet gave rise to great experimentation with the creative possibilities that it permitted for storytelling.

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E&T

MAY 31, 2023

It would certainly be a lot harder to explain the potential threat of artificial intelligence to human society without the armoury of doomsday storylines that have permeated the genre since Karel Čapek gave us the word 'robot' for obedient smart automaton, which went on to kill off most of humanity.

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E&T

JANUARY 26, 2023

ChatGPT was created by US firm OpenAI. The app uses artificial intelligence to generate streams of text from simple prompts. In writing essays, ChatGPT displayed a strong grasp of basic legal rules and had consistently solid organisation and composition," the authors wrote.

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Artificial Intelligence Composites Automation 111

Gary Mintchell

MAY 12, 2023

Nassim Nicholas Taleb tells us in his writings that we can keep accumulating data until we drown. Snowflake has data management tools used by many to handle all the data. Following are a number of lists with details and use cases. Pundits and writers of the manufacturing market harp on data.

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Manufacturing Supply Chain Smart manufacturing Automotive 130

Manufacturer's Monthly

MARCH 17, 2024

With a distinctive one-firm national structure and a global network of member firms, RSM prioritises a client-focused culture, aiming to cultivate strong collaborative partnerships. RSM functions as a trusted advisor for manufacturing businesses seeking to commercialise new products and expand into global markets.

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