Gary Mintchell

MARCH 25, 2023

This is from my last newsletter which you can find at world.hey.com/garymintchell. I continue to spin a few of my brain cycles around the concept of open systems. Automation suppliers continue to pay a little lip service to open but also continue to try to keep as much proprietary as possible in order to make switching suppliers difficult for customers.

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Chris Hohmann

MARCH 25, 2023

In this 9 min video based on logical thinking and the “Evaporating Cloud” AKA “Conflict Resolution Diagram”, I share how to cope with contradicting objectives or wants.

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Control Engineering

MARCH 25, 2023

While “the edge” is often discussed as if it is a single point in an architecture, in a real system there are actually many cascaded levels of edge devices lying between the physical world and the enterprise. “It is exciting that we are now seeing innovation in each of these different levels,” said Jim ten Broeke, Business Development Manager IIoT Europe at Advantech.

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The Fabricator

MARCH 25, 2023

The Consumables Corner duo clarify deposition rate, deposition efficiency, and production output, as well as provide some real-world examples of the terms.

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