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Digital Twin Consortium Signs Liaison with Open Industry 4.0 Alliance

Gary Mintchell

A number of consortia and other collaborative groups have sprung up recently to foster standard approaches to new technologies. As technology moves more quickly than human organizations, the DTC has announced a liaison agreement in December with the Open Industry 4.0 One such group is the Digital Twin Consortium (DTC).

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ABB Co-launches Interoperability Initiative for Industrial IoT

Gary Mintchell

Interoperability forms a key feature for useful technology. Or much of our industrial technology—much, but far from all. The drive of technology application suppliers for proprietary lock in is strong. Think of train rail gauges. Or shipping cargo containers. Many will open up only as much as customers demand immediately.

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Announcements from Inductive Automation’s Ignition Community Conference 2023

Gary Mintchell

I brought two questions along to my visit to Folsom, California and the 11 th Ignition Community Conference. Now we’re making Ignition Edge even better by removing limitations and making it easier for customers to choose the right Ignition Edge product for their needs,” says Inductive Automation Chief Technology Officer Carl Gould.

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OSRF launches Open Source Robotics Alliance to strengthen open-source software projects

Robotics Business Review

The Open Source Robotics Alliance is looking to partner with community stakeholders in the development of open-source projects. It said the new alliance will also ensure the health of the Robot Operating System community for years to come. Memberships are now open for organizations and individuals interested in joining the OSRA.

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Cruise resumes manual robotaxi operations in Phoenix

Robotics Business Review

Cruise is restarting operations in Phoenix, but not in San Francisco where the company is based. Cruise says the goal is to eventually resume driverless operations, but humans will be doing all of the driving for now. When it first began public operations, it started in San Francisco.

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The Sparkplug Specification Is Now an ISO/IEC Standard 

Gary Mintchell

I’ve had many conversations with Arlen Nipper of Cirrus Link, co-developer of MQTT, and Benson Hougland of Opto 22, early adopter of MQTT and Sparkplug, at the Inductive Automation Ignition Community Conference over several years about the demand for lightweight communications. Enter Sparkplug.

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Digital Twin Consortium and Open Industry 4.0 Alliance partner to advance industry 4.0 solutions.

Automation Mag

Alliance has reportedly joined the DTC to not just exchange information but also to bring digitalization and collaboration to the next level. Alliance aims to drive the alignment of technology components and other elements to ensure interoperability,” says Ricardo Dunkel, technical director at the Open Industry 4.0 The Open Industry 4.0