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Supercommunicators

Gary Mintchell

The ability to listen, talk, and write will serve you better than how quickly you can solve differential equations. It is really hard to find an engineer who can write, they told me. The two books taught us how to form habits to improve our daily lives and professional effectiveness. Want to be an effective engineer? statements.

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Has Digital Technology Failed Knowledge Worker Productivity?

Gary Mintchell

I have ruined so many mental cycles and time searching for the optimum set of digital tools for my media and writing career over the past 25 years. That fits many of us today. The important part a human (that’s us) plays in this story is to stop and think and determine what we should be working on. That would be too late.

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ABB Opens Updated Robotics Facility

Gary Mintchell

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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AI, ChatGPT and Manufacturing

Gary Mintchell

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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New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Siemens Splits out Motor and Drive Businesses

Gary Mintchell

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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Preserving Global Standards

Gary Mintchell

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.