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Automation Minutes 117 Gary reports on NI Week, National Instruments' annual user conference. He discusses the large turnout, 25 years of LabView, multicore and FPGA parallel programming with LabView and dataflow programming, and NI's growth into a big company. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 116 Gary reports from the Honeywell User Group in Phoenix June 14. He discusses HPS president Norm Gilsdorf's "business transformation" strategy, recaps some of CTO Jason Urso's presentation and discusses, what else, Honeywell's wireless strategy along with thoughts on ISA100. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 115 Wrap up of the ABB User conference with analysis of ABB and Baldor, report on Packaging Automation Forum thoughts on machine safety and programming standards, and report on the MARTS conference and a dinner to benefit autism awareness. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 114 Gary discusses Invensys and his interview with Operations Management CEO Sudipta Bhattacharya, vision and robotics at Automate 2011, Wes Iversen's retirement and the upcoming Packaging Automation Forum and Maintenance and Reliability Forum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 113 In this video essay, Gary discusses the disaster in Japan and the resulting hype about nuclear power safety. He salutes the process engineers and operators who are working in a terrible situation to get the plant back on track. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 112 Gary discusses database technology, data connectivity, what today's engineers need to know, OPC UA's future and more software topics with engineers at Inductive Automation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 111 Gary reports on his trip to the ODVA (www.odva.org) annual meeting including technical updates, security and energy white papers, introduction of Bosch Rexroth as the latest principal member, implementer application and technical visionary information. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 110 Leadership in automation. How the leaders who developed ISA88, ISA95, MIMOSA have left a legacy that is readily apparent in products and applications. Now the ISA100 committee leadership needs to take the steps necessary to bring reconciliation and convergence and finish the standard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Mintchell on Strategy Gary discusses Inder Sidhu's book "Doing Both". He's a Cisco Sr. VP and shows examples of how to do two seemingly contradictory strategies. Also Jon DiPietro's blog Domesticating IT about business strategy death spirals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Mintchell On Leadership Gary discusses leadership speaking styles. How should a leader show emotion? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 107 Gary interviews Eddie Lee of Moxa in his Ideas and Innovations series for the January issue of Automation World. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 106 Gary reports on his trip to Germany and the SPS/Drives trade fair. Key trends and new products from Siemens and Beckhoff are highlighted. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 105 In this videocast/podcast, Gary discusses things he's learned about teamwork and leadership during a series of interviews over the past seven weeks. He also discusses the book by Richard L. Daft, "The Executive and The Elephant"--your inner rational CEO and your inner drives and emotions that prevent you from doing what you want. He ends with a request for information and speakers on sustainable packaging lines for the upcoming Packaging Automation Forum (http://www.packworld.com/paf) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 104 Gary analyzes the changes at Rockwell Automation and reflects on the PSUG and Automation Fair week in Orlando. He includes pieces of interviews with CEO Keith Nosbusch and CTO Sujeet Chand. "It's an exciting time to be in manufacturing." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 103 Are software as a service, open source software, subscription pricing disruptive to the market for manufacturing software? Just interviewed FuseSource, an open source messaging application. Recently an MIT/Sloan Management Review article cited research that top performing companies are 3x more likely to have a data analytics culture. On a podcast on IT Conversation, Simon Wardley argues that the Cloud is a source of innovation, http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4628.html Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 101 Gary discusses automation conference season, with a brief recap of Emerson Exchange, reports from ISA's Automation Week (which was dubbed "weak" by some and so-so by others), a look ahead at Invensys Operation Management's OpsManage'10 conference coming up next week and then glimpse of the upcoming Rockwell Process Systems Users Group and Automation Fair. Recorded at Tawawa Park in Sidney, Ohio. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 100 I give final wrap up thoughts about Emerson Global Users Exchange 2010. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 99 AM099 Gary interviews Rune Reppenhagen, Emerson Process Management DeltaV Brand Manager about DeltaV announcements and presentations at Emerson Exchange 2010 in San Antonio. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 98 AM098 Gary interviews Emerson Process Management DeltaV SIS brand manager Mike Boudreaux about what's happening at Emerson Exchange 2010 in San Antonio Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 97 Gary interviews Julie Fraser, of Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association Metrics working group about a unique makeover contest the association is running that will award two companies free consulting for a metrics makeover. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 095 - 08.30.2010 Four ways to avoid manufacturing decline. From my research for an article in the September 2010 Automation World, I discuss what several people have discovered about making manufacturing a strategic part of an enterprise. And, no, I'm not a Juventus fan. Just liked the shirt when shopping on my last trip to Italy. Hoping for one from Stuttgart while I'm there next month. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 095 - 08.30.2010 Four ways to avoid manufacturing decline. From my research for an article in the September 2010 Automation World, I discuss what several people have discovered about making manufacturing a strategic part of an enterprise. And, no, I'm not a Juventus fan. Just liked the shirt when shopping on my last trip to Italy. Hoping for one from Stuttgart while I'm there next month. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 094 - 08.15.2010 Essay on leadership--including R&D leadership change at National Instruments and the HP fiasco--plus a quick review of Daniel Pink's "Drive." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 094 - 08.15.2010 Essay on leadership--including R&D leadership change at National Instruments and the HP fiasco--plus a quick review of Daniel Pink's "Drive." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 93 - 08.10.2010 Here's a video essay from NI Week. Day 3 keynotes feature students and a noted guest. This year's keynote was not a disappointment. Three groups of college students accepted various challenges including building an electric car (and driving it cross-country), building a more environmentally friendly car, and finally building a car that a blind person can drive. Finally, Dr. Mishio Kaku, noted theoretical physicist and TV personality, discussed the future.  He closed with an inter ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 93 - 08.10.2010 Here's a video essay from NI Week. Day 3 keynotes feature students and a noted guest. This year's keynote was not a disappointment. Three groups of college students accepted various challenges including building an electric car (and driving it cross-country), building a more environmentally friendly car, and finally building a car that a blind person can drive. Finally, Dr. Mishio Kaku, noted theoretical physicist and TV personality, discussed the futu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 092 - 07.23.2010 In this audio/video essay, Gary takes a look at the environment of risky behaviors that can lead to safety and secutiry breechs. He looks at the BP oil rig situation and the virus that targeted Siemens WinCC HMI/SCADA. Links to articles can be found at http://www.garymintchellsfeedforward.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 092 - 07.23.2010 In this audio/video essay, Gary takes a look at the environment of risky behaviors that can lead to safety and secutiry breechs. He looks at the BP oil rig situation and the virus that targeted Siemens WinCC HMI/SCADA. Links to articles can be found at http://www.garymintchellsfeedforward.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 091 - 07.04.2010 Gary discusses digital manufacturing--specifically virtual commissioning--with Tom Hoffman of Siemens PLM. Check out the benefits of working out machine ideas on a computer before cutting steel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 091 - 07.04.2010 Gary discusses digital manufacturing--specifically virtual commissioning--with Tom Hoffman of Siemens PLM. Check out the benefits of working out machine ideas on a computer before cutting steel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 090 - 07.03.2010 Gary discusses the recent Siemens PLM conference, digital manufacturing and cool design tools. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 090 - 07.03.2010 Gary discusses the recent Siemens PLM conference, digital manufacturing and cool design tools. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 089 - 07.02.2010 Gary wraps up information from the MESA International conference in Dearborn, MI June 21-23. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 089 - 07.02.2010 Gary wraps up information from the MESA International conference in Dearborn, MI June 21-23. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 088 - 06.26.2010 Gary discusses the MESA International Strategic Initiatives Model of MES with Doug Weaver. Doug is a practitioner in his day job and also Treasurer and Chair of the Website Committee of MESA International. The model can be found at http://www.mesa.org/en/modelstrategicinitiatives/MSI.asp. The model describes the links between software modules that comprise Manufacturing Enterprise Solution applications and corporate strategic initiatives such as real-time enterprise or Lean. We talked at th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 088 - 06.26.2010 Gary discusses the MESA International Strategic Initiatives Model of MES with Doug Weaver. Doug is a practitioner in his day job and also Treasurer and Chair of the Website Committee of MESA International. The model can be found at http://www.mesa.org/en/modelstrategicinitiatives/MSI.asp. The model describes the links between software modules that comprise Manufacturing Enterprise Solution applications and corporate strategic initiatives such as real-time enterprise or Lean. We talked at th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 087 - 05.31.2010 An essay on thought leadership. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 087 - 05.31.2010 An essay on thought leadership. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 086 - 05.22.2010 Gary discusses what automation means to future unemployment (The Lights in the Tunnel by Martin Ford), the value of working with your hands (Shop Craft as Soulcraft by Matthew Crawford), decentralized organizations (The Starfish and the Spider), along with recapping the Packaging Automation Forum, Emerson/Fisher's new Laboratory and ABB's user conference. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 086 - 05.22.2010 Gary discusses what automation means to future unemployment (The Lights in the Tunnel by Martin Ford), the value of working with your hands (Shop Craft as Soulcraft by Matthew Crawford), decentralized organizations (The Starfish and the Spider), along with recapping the Packaging Automation Forum, Emerson/Fisher's new Laboratory and ABB's user conference. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 085 - 04.16.2010 Automation World Editor in Chief Gary Mintchell interviews Charlie Fialkowski, U.S. Process Safety Manager for Siemens Industry Inc. about standards updates for burner management system safety including a discussion of programmable safety logic controllers, NFPA, ISA 84 and Technical Report 05 of the ISA S-84 Committee. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 085 - 04.16.2010 Automation World Editor in Chief Gary Mintchell interviews Charlie Fialkowski, U.S. Process Safety Manager for Siemens Industry Inc. about standards updates for burner management system safety including a discussion of programmable safety logic controllers, NFPA, ISA 84 and Technical Report 05 of the ISA S-84 Committee. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 084 - 04.10.2010 Gary discusses how organizations can be insidious in enticing people into ethical lapses referring to the current news about Toyota and the Pope. Industrial Ethernet market share is next up for discussion followed by reading for his May issue of Automation World article about creating a safety culture. He finishes with thoughts about an interview with auto industry analyst James Harbour and whether automation will completely replace jobs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 084 - 04.10.2010 Gary discusses how organizations can be insidious in enticing people into ethical lapses referring to the current news about Toyota and the Pope. Industrial Ethernet market share is next up for discussion followed by reading for his May issue of Automation World article about creating a safety culture. He finishes with thoughts about an interview with auto industry analyst James Harbour and whether automation will completely replace jobs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 083 - 03.28.2010 Gary discusses the need for education, company sponsored education, and talks about entrepreneur education at Stanford, Vivek Wadhwa writing at TechCrunch on why America needs to invest in its workforce, a Robert Scoble video interview and finally refers to a Seth Godin blog with a video on what a teacher makes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 083 - 03.28.2010 Gary discusses the need for education, company sponsored education, and talks about entrepreneur education at Stanford, Vivek Wadhwa writing at TechCrunch on why America needs to invest in its workforce, a Robert Scoble video interview and finally refers to a Seth Godin blog with a video on what a teacher makes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 082 - 03.19.2010 Gary discusses power and energy in this update on sustainable manufacturing as a corporate strategy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 082 - 03.19.2010 Gary discusses power and energy in this update on sustainable manufacturing as a corporate strategy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 081 - 03.14.2010 Thoughts on automotive manufacturing pondering post by Kevin Kelly, is large petrochemical peaking for a new reality in process, networking, Ethernet, wireless sensor networks and the Internet of Things. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 081 - 03.14.2010 Thoughts on automotive manufacturing pondering post by Kevin Kelly, is large petrochemical peaking for a new reality in process, networking, Ethernet, wireless sensor networks and the Internet of Things. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 080 - 03.05.2010 Gary discusses the rising stock prices for some automation companies, leadership, SME getting high school students involved in manufacturing, sustainability as a manufacturing model and wireless control. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 080 - 03.05.2010 Gary discusses the rising stock prices for some automation companies, leadership, SME getting high school students involved in manufacturing, sustainability as a manufacturing model and wireless control. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 079 - 02.13.2010 In news from the last couple of weeks, Gary discusses changes to the upcoming Pack Expo, the need for visionary leadership, upcoming conferences for WBF and MESA. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 079 - 02.13.2010 In news from the last couple of weeks, Gary discusses changes to the upcoming Pack Expo, the need for visionary leadership, upcoming conferences for WBF and MESA. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 078 - 02.13.2010 Gary discusses happenings at the 14th annual ARC Forum in Orlando. There were product announcements from many companies, an indepth discussion of the multi-year Invensys strategy that has led to the formation of IOM, WBF and OMAC and their separation from ISA and a few thoughts about wireless from the Forum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 078 - 02.13.2010 Gary discusses happenings at the 14th annual ARC Forum in Orlando. There were product announcements from many companies, an indepth discussion of the multi-year Invensys strategy that has led to the formation of IOM, WBF and OMAC and their separation from ISA and a few thoughts about wireless from the Forum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 077 - 02.04.2010 Gary reviews several earnings reports from the automation industry and then reports from MESA International and Cambashi research on manufacturers improving financial performance and manufacturing performance using well defined metrics and automated data gathering. The latest edition of the popular Packaging Automation Forum is announced. Then a few thoughts on Toyota, Lean and entrepreneurship in automotive manufacturing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 077 - 02.04.2010 Gary reviews several earnings reports from the automation industry and then reports from MESA International and Cambashi research on manufacturers improving financial performance and manufacturing performance using well defined metrics and automated data gathering. The latest edition of the popular Packaging Automation Forum is announced. Then a few thoughts on Toyota, Lean and entrepreneurship in automotive manufacturing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 076 - 01.15.2010 Gary wonders about what we'll see in automation in 2010. Also introduces OurISA, a movement to generate grass-roots ideas into a professional engineering society. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 076 - 01.15.2010 Gary wonders about what we'll see in automation in 2010. Also introduces OurISA, a movement to generate grass-roots ideas into a professional engineering society. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 075 - 11.03.2009 Re-release (hopefully this one transferred in its entirety) of Gary's update of ISA Expo and Advantech Conference. Recorded in Suzhou, China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 075 - 11.02.2009 Gary reports on the ISA Expo with product and company news plus news and thoughts about the ISA reorganization and the end of the Expo. He also reports on the Advantech Worldwide Partner Conference from Suzhou, China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 074 - 10.08.2009 Gary interviews David Deitz, director of product marketing for Delta V, at the Emerson Global Users Exchange in Orlando about the rollout of the new DeltaV version 11 and its significant new features. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 074 - 10.08.2009 Gary interviews David Deitz, director of product marketing for Delta V, at the Emerson Global Users Exchange in Orlando about the rollout of the new DeltaV version 11 and its significant new features. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 073 - 09.25.2009 Recognizing considerable industry interest in the reorganization that created Invensys Operations Management, Gary sat down with IOM vice presidents Mark Davidson (global marketing) and Rashesh Mody (portfolio and strategy). The discussion included the new mission and how integration of the overall division's portfolio is evolving. The division includes such venerable brands as Avantis, Eurotherm, Foxboro, SimSci-Esscor, Triconex and Wonderware. Perhaps for the first time since they were br ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 073 - 09.25.2009 Recognizing considerable industry interest in the reorganization that created Invensys Operations Management, Gary sat down with IOM vice presidents Mark Davidson (global marketing) and Rashesh Mody (portfolio and strategy). The discussion included the new mission and how integration of the overall division's portfolio is evolving. The division includes such venerable brands as Avantis, Eurotherm, Foxboro, SimSci-Esscor, Triconex and Wonderware. Perhaps for the first time since they were br ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 072 - 09.19.2009 Gary discusses the ISA Marketing & Sales Symposium and social media, discusses ratification of the ISA100.11a wireless network standard and implications versus WirelessHart, new products from Longwatch, Kepware and Online Development, plus his upcoming trips to Invensys Operations Management Client Conference, Emerson Exchange and ISA Expo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 072 - 09.19.2009 Gary discusses the ISA Marketing & Sales Symposium and social media, discusses ratification of the ISA100.11a wireless network standard and implications versus WirelessHart, new products from Longwatch, Kepware and Online Development, plus his upcoming trips to Invensys Operations Management Client Conference, Emerson Exchange and ISA Expo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 068 - 09.09.2009 Updated show notes: Gary talks with Mike Miller, business development manager with Rockwell Automation, about new machine safety standards effective Dec. 29, 2009. Functional safety is defined. EN ISO 13849 and IEC 62061 which replace EN 954 are explained. The impact of these standards and eventual benefits for machine builders and end users alike are also discussed. We learned on 9/9/09 that the European Commission has decided to postpone th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 071 - 08.21.2009 Gary goes international and talks Lean Manufacturing with Jean-Christophe Ledoux of consulting firm Accenture and Yves Vergnolle, of software supplier Apriso about a project where the companies combined to provide a software solution to companies looking for tools to help them implement Lean Manufacturing. The guests call in from France for this episode. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 071 - 08.21.2009 Gary goes international and talks Lean Manufacturing with Jean-Christophe Ledoux of consulting firm Accenture and Yves Vergnolle, of software supplier Apriso about a project where the companies combined to provide a software solution to companies looking for tools to help them implement Lean Manufacturing. The guests call in from France for this episode. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 070 - 08.20.2009 In this episode, Gary discusses the National Instruments NI Week reporting on LabView upgrades and parallel programming. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 070 - 08.20.2009 In this episode, Gary discusses the National Instruments NI Week reporting on LabView upgrades and parallel programming. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 069 - 08.17.2009 Gary discusses the recent organization moves at Invensys in this podcast from his mobile studio. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 069 - 08.17.2009 Gary discusses the recent organization moves at Invensys in this podcast from his mobile studio. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 068 - 07.14.2009 Gary talks with Mike Miller, business development manager with Rockwell Automation, about new machine safety standards effective Dec. 29, 2009. Functional safety is defined. EN ISO 13849 and IEC 62061 which replace EN 954 are explained. The impact of these standards and eventual benefits for machine builders and end users alike are also discussed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 067 - 04.30.2009 Gary interviews John Dyck in this episode. John is Chairman of MESA International, the association for Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions. He discusses the new directions for MESA, the reasons that this software area is important to manufacturers and the new and exciting format for the association's gathering in the spring of 2010. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 067 - 04.30.2009 Gary interviews John Dyck in this episode. John is Chairman of MESA International, the association for Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions. He discusses the new directions for MESA, the reasons that this software area is important to manufacturers and the new and exciting format for the association's gathering in the spring of 2010. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 066 - 04.22.2009 Gary interviews Lee Lane, business director, controller and visualization business, Rockwell Automation about what makes programmable automation controllers (PACs) different from programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in this series on control. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 066 - 04.22.2009 Gary interviews Lee Lane, business director, controller and visualization business, Rockwell Automation about what makes programmable automation controllers (PACs) different from programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in this series on control. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 065 - 04.15.2009 Back from vacation and a couple of trips Gary recounts his Middle East vacation (yes it was quite safe where he was). He recaps the ABB Automation and Power World conference, the Packaging Automation Forum and offers his point of view on the rumored Emerson acquisition of Rockwell. Aren't rumors great? Plus other news from the world of automation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 065 - 04.15.2009 Back from vacation and a couple of trips Gary recounts his Middle East vacation (yes it was quite safe where he was). He recaps the ABB Automation and Power World conference, the Packaging Automation Forum and offers his point of view on the rumored Emerson acquisition of Rockwell. Aren't rumors great? Plus other news from the world of automation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 064 - 02.02.2009 Gary Mintchell talks with Keith Updike, managing director of BBK--a manufacturing consulting firm--about Lean Thinking. The discussion includes ideas of implementing Lean and a vision of what a Lean Lifestyle entails. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 064 - 02.02.2009 Gary Mintchell talks with Keith Updike, managing director of BBK--a manufacturing consulting firm--about Lean Thinking. The discussion includes ideas of implementing Lean and a vision of what a Lean Lifestyle entails. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 063 - 01.27.2009 Gary takes a look back at 2008 and ahead to 2009. Changes in automation supplier leadership are noted, and he exhorts listeners to promote the economic need for manufacturing to regain prominence in the United States. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 063 - 01.27.2009 Gary takes a look back at 2008 and ahead to 2009. Changes in automation supplier leadership are noted, and he exhorts listeners to promote the economic need for manufacturing to regain prominence in the United States. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 062 - 12.09.2008 Joe Grove, vice president of engineering at OSSID, a Pro Mach company, joins Gary for this discussion of how a packaging industry equipment manufacturer can use new technology along with in depth customer research to redesign machinery to achieve a competitive advantage and give customers added value. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 062 - 12.09.2008 Joe Grove, vice president of engineering at OSSID, a Pro Mach company, joins Gary for this discussion of how a packaging industry equipment manufacturer can use new technology along with in depth customer research to redesign machinery to achieve a competitive advantage and give customers added value. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 060 - 11.25.2008 Gary reports from Pack Expo. Thoughts on automation suppliers competing for OEM business, the recent spate of government bailouts and the upcoming Safety Automation Forum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 060 - 11.25.2008 Gary reports from Pack Expo. Thoughts on automation suppliers competing for OEM business, the recent spate of government bailouts and the upcoming Safety Automation Forum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 059 - 10.28.2008 The HTML of process control. Gary interviews Jonas Berge, Director of PlantWeb Consulting for Emerson Process Management in Singapore. He discusses EDDL (electronic device description language), describing what it is, how it is used and the overall system from intelligent instruments to how the information is displayed in a client computer. More information is available at www.eddl.org. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 059 - 10.28.2008 The HTML of process control. Gary interviews Jonas Berge, Director of PlantWeb Consulting for Emerson Process Management in Singapore. He discusses EDDL (electronic device description language), describing what it is, how it is used and the overall system from intelligent instruments to how the information is displayed in a client computer. More information is available at www.eddl.org. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 058 - 10.14.2008 Gary reviews trips to the Emerson Global Users Exchange and WonderWorld conferences. He offers thoughts on changes at Rockwell Automation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 058 - 10.14.2008 Gary reviews trips to the Emerson Global Users Exchange and WonderWorld conferences. He offers thoughts on changes at Rockwell Automation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 057 - 09.27.2008 Gary interviews Geoff Wickens, systems solutions manager for Endress + Hauser and a member of the marketing committee of the FDT Group. Wickens explains what FDT does and why it is of value for users of instrumentation and asset management systems. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 057 - 09.27.2008 Gary interviews Geoff Wickens, systems solutions manager for Endress + Hauser and a member of the marketing committee of the FDT Group. Wickens explains what FDT does and why it is of value for users of instrumentation and asset management systems. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 056 - 09.21.2008 Gary resumes his interview series with Paul Wacker on Ethernet. Paul is a product manager at Advantech and discusses technology and application of Power over Ethernet. This interview will also be the subject of an email newsletter sponsored by Advantech. Paul's previous interviews on Ethernet have been well regarded in the industry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 056 - 09.21.2008 Gary resumes his interview series with Paul Wacker on Ethernet. Paul is a product manager at Advantech and discusses technology and application of Power over Ethernet. This interview will also be the subject of an email newsletter sponsored by Advantech. Paul's previous interviews on Ethernet have been well regarded in the industry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 055 - 08.21.2008 Recording in the mobile studio, Gary reflects on leadership and energy issues from his trip to Las Vegas to attend the Schneider Electric customer conference. That's two straight weeks of record attendance at conferences in a supposedly down economy. He also discusses the latest Rockwell Automation Integrated Architecture release. He concludes with a discussion of the Packaging Automation Forum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 055 - 08.21.2008 Recording in the mobile studio, Gary reflects on leadership and energy issues from his trip to Las Vegas to attend the Schneider Electric customer conference. That's two straight weeks of record attendance at conferences in a supposedly down economy. He also discusses the latest Rockwell Automation Integrated Architecture release. He concludes with a discussion of the Packaging Automation Forum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 054 - 08.09.2008 Recording in the mobile studio Gary catches up with a few weeks of travels including the Siemens ExiderDome, ideas from meetings at Emerson and NI Week. He takes a look at marketing, the automation system, need for accurate information from field devices, green automation, education and selling your ideas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 054 - 08.09.2008 Recording in the mobile studio Gary catches up with a few weeks of travels including the Siemens ExiderDome, ideas from meetings at Emerson and NI Week. He takes a look at marketing, the automation system, need for accurate information from field devices, green automation, education and selling your ideas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 053 - 07.05.2008 Gary reviews recent news in wireless, challenges listeners to read the Bill of Rights in honor of July 4, reports on Foxboro's 100 years celebration and discusses Honeywell Users Group. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 053 - 07.05.2008 Gary reviews recent news in wireless, challenges listeners to read the Bill of Rights in honor of July 4, reports on Foxboro's 100 years celebration and discusses Honeywell Users Group. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 052 - 06.09.2008 Gary reviews what he learned from trips to Siemens, Automation Direct and B&R Automation, then the Rockwell Software RSTechEd event in Orlando. He includes a look at Rockwell Software strategy and business and the high points from Alvin Toffler's keynote and Q&A session at RS TechEd. He concludes with thoughts on making manufacturing an integral part of a company's business. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 052 - 06.09.2008 Gary reviews what he learned from trips to Siemens, Automation Direct and B&R Automation, then the Rockwell Software RSTechEd event in Orlando. He includes a look at Rockwell Software strategy and business and the high points from Alvin Toffler's keynote and Q&A session at RS TechEd. He concludes with thoughts on making manufacturing an integral part of a company's business. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 051 - 05.16.2008 Gary offers an opinion on the Microsoft/Yahoo fiasco and the HP/EDS purchase. He discusses his recent trip to Texas and the ABB User Group and visits to National Instruments and Emerson Process. He concludes with thoughts on the progress of ISA100 wireless communication committee. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 051 - 05.16.2008 Gary offers an opinion on the Microsoft/Yahoo fiasco and the HP/EDS purchase. He discusses his recent trip to Texas and the ABB User Group and visits to National Instruments and Emerson Process. He concludes with thoughts on the progress of ISA100 wireless communication committee. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 050 - 04.25.2008 On the road again with Gary as he discusses the upcoming Automation Forum in May, automation supplier financials and the impact of the declining dollar, Jeff Hawkins and "On Intelligence" and Rockwell Automation's acquisition of Incuity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 050 - 04.25.2008 On the road again with Gary as he discusses the upcoming Automation Forum in May, automation supplier financials and the impact of the declining dollar, Jeff Hawkins and "On Intelligence" and Rockwell Automation's acquisition of Incuity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 049 - 04.20.2008 Gary reviews the Yokogawa user conference and gives a virtual tour of the Siemens ExiderDome traveling exhibit in Mexico. He also discusses the struggles of Dell and Boeing in manufacturing. A final thought about wireless and the recent Webcast on wireless concludes the podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 049 - 04.20.2008 Gary reviews the Yokogawa user conference and gives a virtual tour of the Siemens ExiderDome traveling exhibit in Mexico. He also discusses the struggles of Dell and Boeing in manufacturing. A final thought about wireless and the recent Webcast on wireless concludes the podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 048 - 04.01.2008 On the road again, Gary reviews the WBF meeting, Interphex and a trip to ABB to take a technology dive into its system architecture. He also reviews Nicholas Carr's "The Big Switch." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 048 - 04.01.2008 On the road again, Gary reviews the WBF meeting, Interphex and a trip to ABB to take a technology dive into its system architecture. He also reviews Nicholas Carr's "The Big Switch." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 047 - 03.25.2008 Gary discusses new software from GE Fanuc that meets the competitive challenge and raises the ante. He also extends a challenge to OMAC to keep its momentum going, discusses wireless sensor products, green automation, an upcoming Wireless Webcast and the Packaging Automation Forum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 047 - 03.25.2008 Gary discusses new software from GE Fanuc that meets the competitive challenge and raises the ante. He also extends a challenge to OMAC to keep its momentum going, discusses wireless sensor products, green automation, an upcoming Wireless Webcast and the Packaging Automation Forum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 046 - 03.08.2008 From his mobile studio on the backroads of Indiana, Gary discusses the departure of Fred Kindle from ABB and offers news and opinions of the news from the ARC Forum in Orlando Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 046 - 03.08.2008 From his mobile studio on the backroads of Indiana, Gary discusses the departure of Fred Kindle from ABB and offers news and opinions of the news from the ARC Forum in Orlando Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 045 - 01.26.2008 Kris Pister, CTO and founder of Dust Networks discusses wireless sensor networks, what mesh networking is, offers evidence of reliability and security, and discusses the economics of implementing the technology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 045 - 01.26.2008 Kris Pister, CTO and founder of Dust Networks discusses wireless sensor networks, what mesh networking is, offers evidence of reliability and security, and discusses the economics of implementing the technology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 044 - 01.20.2008 Happy New Year thoughts about top trends in automation for 2008. Technologies--networking, wireless, information and controllers. Also, how will the strategies of the automation technology suppliers play out during the year. Will there be more sales made over the Web this year? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 044 - 01.20.2008 Happy New Year thoughts about top trends in automation for 2008. Technologies--networking, wireless, information and controllers. Also, how will the strategies of the automation technology suppliers play out during the year. Will there be more sales made over the Web this year? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 043 - 12.17.2007 Gary discusses the Make2Pack committee meeting, Rockwell/Dassault collaboration for digital factory, programming and time to market for OEMs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 043 - 12.17.2007 Gary discusses the Make2Pack committee meeting, Rockwell/Dassault collaboration for digital factory, programming and time to market for OEMs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 042 - 12.05.2007 Gary discusses the OMAC Symposium, standards, Honeywell's equipment health monitor, NI's move to OEM volume products, The Long Tail and why you should blog. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 042 - 12.05.2007 Gary discusses the OMAC Symposium, standards, Honeywell's equipment health monitor, NI's move to OEM volume products, The Long Tail and why you should blog. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 041 - 11.19.2007 Gary interviews Jeff Becker of Honeywell Process Solutions about wireless technologies for industrial use including wireless sensor networks, WiFi, wireless for control and an update on the ISA SP100 committee. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 041 - 11.19.2007 Gary interviews Jeff Becker of Honeywell Process Solutions about wireless technologies for industrial use including wireless sensor networks, WiFi, wireless for control and an update on the ISA SP100 committee. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 040 - 11.05.2007 Gary interviews Dave Bauman, Technical Director of OMAC. Dave reviews the OMAC presence at Pack Expo and explains what is happening with the organization's first annual Symposium to be held in the Seattle area Nov. 28-29. A tour of the Boeing 787 assembly facility is included in the conference. Discussion will center on integrating standards across process and discrete industries. Sign up at www.omac.org. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 040 - 11.05.2007 Gary interviews Dave Bauman, Technical Director of OMAC. Dave reviews the OMAC presence at Pack Expo and explains what is happening with the organization's first annual Symposium to be held in the Seattle area Nov. 28-29. A tour of the Boeing 787 assembly facility is included in the conference. Discussion will center on integrating standards across process and discrete industries. Sign up at www.omac.org. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 039 - 10.11.2007 It's all about Ethernet. Gary talks with Paul Wacker, product manager for industrial communications at Advantech Corp. Topics include managed versus unmanaged switches, when to use IGMP snooping with EtherNet/IP and other protocols, the value of virtual LANs and some tips on network security. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 039 - 10.11.2007 It's all about Ethernet. Gary talks with Paul Wacker, product manager for industrial communications at Advantech Corp. Topics include managed versus unmanaged switches, when to use IGMP snooping with EtherNet/IP and other protocols, the value of virtual LANs and some tips on network security. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 038 - 09.11.2007 Gary discusses Wonderware's latest product announcements plus product announcements and strategies gleaned from the Emerson Global Users Exchange in Dallas. He also reports on a new online store for automation components. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 038 - 09.11.2007 Gary discusses Wonderware's latest product announcements plus product announcements and strategies gleaned from the Emerson Global Users Exchange in Dallas. He also reports on a new online store for automation components. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 037 - 08.18.2007 Gary excerpts his marketing communications keynote at PTO, updates the State Model challenge from end users discussing an interview with Rockwell and NI's new state chart module, reviews technology advances revealed at NI Week, and touches on travel to SEW Eurodrive and Ohio Northern University's robot lab. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 037 - 08.18.2007 Gary excerpts his marketing communications keynote at PTO, updates the State Model challenge from end users discussing an interview with Rockwell and NI's new state chart module, reviews technology advances revealed at NI Week, and touches on travel to SEW Eurodrive and Ohio Northern University's robot lab. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 036 - 07.30.2007 Gary interviews Dave Bauman, Technical Director of OMAC. They discuss OMAC technologies such as PackML and PackTags plus OMAC's plans for demonstrations of technology during Pack Expo in Las Vegas October 16-18. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 036 - 07.30.2007 Gary interviews Dave Bauman, Technical Director of OMAC. They discuss OMAC technologies such as PackML and PackTags plus OMAC's plans for demonstrations of technology during Pack Expo in Las Vegas October 16-18. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 035 - 07.23.2007 Gary updates Emerson's wireless information, addresses response to his challenge to automation suppliers about machine programming and takes a look at brain drain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 035 - 07.23.2007 Gary updates Emerson's wireless information, addresses response to his challenge to automation suppliers about machine programming and takes a look at brain drain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 034 - 07.09.2007 Gary talks strategies in the wireless market and in the ever more competitive process automation market. He issues another challenge to machine control tech suppliers to make their programming environments more user friendly after Rockwell Automation accepted his last challenge to discuss their approach. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 034 - 07.09.2007 Gary talks strategies in the wireless market and in the ever more competitive process automation market. He issues another challenge to machine control tech suppliers to make their programming environments more user friendly after Rockwell Automation accepted his last challenge to discuss their approach. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 033 - 06.01.2007 Gary visits the Center for Intelligent Maintenance Systems Forum and Packaging Automation Forum, editorializes on programming standards and discusses the Rockwell purchase of IMS Triplex. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 033 - 06.01.2007 Gary visits the Center for Intelligent Maintenance Systems Forum and Packaging Automation Forum, editorializes on programming standards and discusses the Rockwell purchase of IMS Triplex. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 032 - 05.09.2007 Gary visits Interphex, WBF and Matrikon conferences. How can we get people involved in technical leadership in automation? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 032 - 05.09.2007 Gary visits Interphex, WBF and Matrikon conferences. How can we get people involved in technical leadership in automation? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 031 - 04.23.2007 Automating agriculture, OPC security, Schneider Electric support for CIP networks, FDT/EDDL cooperation, Hart Wireless Spec. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 031 - 04.23.2007 Automating agriculture, OPC security, Schneider Electric support for CIP networks, FDT/EDDL cooperation, Hart Wireless Spec. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 030 - 03.18.2007 Gary Mintchell chats with Jim Pinto about his recent trip to India and a tour of Infosys. Information includes thoughts on global competitiveness, training, recruitment, ideas for American competitiveness. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 030 - 03.18.2007 Gary Mintchell chats with Jim Pinto about his recent trip to India and a tour of Infosys. Information includes thoughts on global competitiveness, training, recruitment, ideas for American competitiveness. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 029 - 03.09.2007 Guest Paul Wacker, eAutomation Product Manager, discusses Ethernet in manufacturing with host Gary Mintchell. Topics include manufacturing environment and network administration tips. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 029 - 03.09.2007 Guest Paul Wacker, eAutomation Product Manager, discusses Ethernet in manufacturing with host Gary Mintchell. Topics include manufacturing environment and network administration tips. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 028 - 02.27.2007 News from ARC Forum and Fieldbus Foundation annual meeting including reports of interviews with industry CEOs, new products and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 028 - 02.27.2007 News from ARC Forum and Fieldbus Foundation annual meeting including reports of interviews with industry CEOs, new products and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 027 - 01.30.2007 Siemens purchase, Bosch Rexroth technology, shout out to Radwell, Honeywell joint effort, who goes to conferences. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 027 - 01.30.2007 Siemens purchase, Bosch Rexroth technology, shout out to Radwell, Honeywell joint effort, who goes to conferences. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 026 - 01.20.2007 Emerson wireless announcement, process control system migration, is M2M growing, programming methods and systems Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 026 - 01.20.2007 Emerson wireless announcement, process control system migration, is M2M growing, programming methods and systems Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 025 - 01.08.2007 Built-to-change organizations, teams beat strategy every time, new year's resolutions (not) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 025 - 01.08.2007 Built-to-change organizations, teams beat strategy every time, new year's resolutions (not) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 024 - 12.12.2006 News from Invensys User Conference, wireless, Make2Pack meeting, selling the new software solutions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 024 - 12.12.2006 News from Invensys User Conference, wireless, Make2Pack meeting, selling the new software solutions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 023 - 12.03.2006 Innovation and leadership, the Yokogawa North American Users Conference. Technology and performance management. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 023 - 12.03.2006 Innovation and leadership, the Yokogawa North American Users Conference. Technology and performance management. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 022 - 11.22.2006 Pack Expo observations; variable frequency drives; Schneider Electric changes; having great panel discussions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 022 - 11.22.2006 Pack Expo observations; variable frequency drives; Schneider Electric changes; having great panel discussions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 021 - 11.03.2006 News from Automation Fair including new products and important announcements on software direction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 021 - 11.03.2006 News from Automation Fair including new products and important announcements on software direction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 020 - 10.28.2006 News from the ISA Expo in Houston. Developments in wireless sensor networks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 020 - 10.28.2006 News from the ISA Expo in Houston. Developments in wireless sensor networks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 019 - 10.13.2006 News from the Emerson Exchange on wireless and from MESA International on Metrics Matter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 019 - 10.13.2006 News from the Emerson Exchange on wireless and from MESA International on Metrics Matter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 018 - 09.19.2006 Gary interviews Carter Johnson, vice president of Visiprise and conference chair of the MESA International Plant2Enterprise conference that will be held October 9-12 at the Disney Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 018 - 09.19.2006 Gary interviews Carter Johnson, vice president of Visiprise and conference chair of the MESA International Plant2Enterprise conference that will be held October 9-12 at the Disney Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 017 - 09.18.2006 Production performance management and manufacturing intelligence. Empower operators to operate a plant profitably. Organize for the 21st century. Adobe version 8 3D and Connect. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 017 - 09.18.2006 Production performance management and manufacturing intelligence. Empower operators to operate a plant profitably. Organize for the 21st century. Adobe version 8 3D and Connect. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 016 - 09.08.2006 eMvoy, a new company that offers nationwide rating of manufacturers searchable by location or category. OMAC comments and questions. New book "Thinking for a Living" about managing knowledge workers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 016 - 09.08.2006 eMvoy, a new company that offers nationwide rating of manufacturers searchable by location or category. OMAC comments and questions. New book "Thinking for a Living" about managing knowledge workers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 015 - 08.18.2006 Trip reports on Profibus (PTO) annual meeting in Phoenix, National Instruments' NI Week and trip to Emerson Process. News from Automation Federation, HMS and general fieldbus thoughts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 015 - 08.18.2006 Trip reports on Profibus (PTO) annual meeting in Phoenix, National Instruments' NI Week and trip to Emerson Process. News from Automation Federation, HMS and general fieldbus thoughts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 014 - 07.28.2006 Interview with John Ross of CitectDealing with DarwinGuns, Germs and SteelIAONA disbandsSee you at Profibus Annual Meeting in PhoenixControl cover story on Fighting the Fieldbus Wars -- really it's no longer war, just competition Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 014 - 07.28.2006 Interview with John Ross of CitectDealing with DarwinGuns, Germs and SteelIAONA disbandsSee you at Profibus Annual Meeting in PhoenixControl cover story on Fighting the Fieldbus Wars -- really it's no longer war, just competition Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 013 - 07.17.2006 Return from Alaska; ARC Forum; OPC UA spec released along with vendor support; Siemens and Emerson work for interoperability plus challenge to ODVA; manufacturing analysis-GM, Ford, Airbus; Schneider, Invensys, MESA conferences; send ideas for 2007 coverage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 013 - 07.17.2006 Return from Alaska; ARC Forum; OPC UA spec released along with vendor support; Siemens and Emerson work for interoperability plus challenge to ODVA; manufacturing analysis-GM, Ford, Airbus; Schneider, Invensys, MESA conferences; send ideas for 2007 coverage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | automation Minutes 012 - 06.16.2006 Honeywell Users Group and Rockwell Automation RSTechEd. Editor ethics, process control systems forum and energy harvesting device to charge batteries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | automation Minutes 012 - 06.16.2006 Honeywell Users Group and Rockwell Automation RSTechEd. Editor ethics, process control systems forum and energy harvesting device to charge batteries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 011 - 06.07.2006 Reports on GE Fanuc and Siemens users groups, on demand computing and mobile applications. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 011 - 06.07.2006 Reports on GE Fanuc and Siemens users groups, on demand computing and mobile applications. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 010 - 05.26.2006 Gary Mintchell's Automation Minutes including further notes on news from Hannover, MES/HMI and PLM combination, ISA standards updates, the ABB users conference and the Packaging Automation Forum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 010 - 05.26.2006 Gary Mintchell's Automation Minutes including further notes on news from Hannover, MES/HMI and PLM combination, ISA standards updates, the ABB users conference and the Packaging Automation Forum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 009 - 05.02.2006 Report on Boston trip for Invensys InFusion announcement. Report from Hannover Fair. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 009 - 05.02.2006 Report on Boston trip for Invensys InFusion announcement. Report from Hannover Fair. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 008 - 04.01.2006 Not an April Fools joke, but ruminations on some market forces affecting automation professionals. Also announcing my upcoming trip to the Hannover Fair and thoughts on the Automation Federation (what, no AA 12-step jokes?). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 008 - 04.01.2006 Not an April Fools joke, but ruminations on some market forces affecting automation professionals. Also announcing my upcoming trip to the Hannover Fair and thoughts on the Automation Federation (what, no AA 12-step jokes?). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 007 - 03.20.2006 Another edition of Gary Mintchell's Automation Minutes. News on important software survey, notes on standards, thoughts for marketing people, innovation and adoption of technology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 007 - 03.20.2006 Another edition of Gary Mintchell's Automation Minutes. News on important software survey, notes on standards, thoughts for marketing people, innovation and adoption of technology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 006 - 03.06.2006 News and views from the world of automation from the editor in chief of Automation World magazine. Includes discussion of software interoperability and some Linux and Java thoughts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 006 - 03.06.2006 News and views from the world of automation from the editor in chief of Automation World magazine. Includes discussion of software interoperability and some Linux and Java thoughts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 005 - 02.21.2006 Live from the ARC Forum in Orlando, Rockwell Sr. VP of Global Industry Solutions Keiran Coulton discusses his new role and the company's emphasis on vertical industry solutions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 005 - 02.21.2006 Live from the ARC Forum in Orlando, Rockwell Sr. VP of Global Industry Solutions Keiran Coulton discusses his new role and the company's emphasis on vertical industry solutions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 004 - 02.17.2006 Sitting in for Gary Mintchell, Dave Newcorn speaks with P&G's open architecture evangelist, Dave Chappell, direct from Italy, on the results of the Make2Pack meeting held earlier in the day with about 40 Italian packaging machinery OEMs. Chappell talks about the implications of Make2Pack for all machine builders, both foreign and domestic, as well as end users. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 004 - 02.17.2006 Sitting in for Gary Mintchell, Dave Newcorn speaks with P&G's open architecture evangelist, Dave Chappell, direct from Italy, on the results of the Make2Pack meeting held earlier in the day with about 40 Italian packaging machinery OEMs. Chappell talks about the implications of Make2Pack for all machine builders, both foreign and domestic, as well as end users. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | People Who "Get It" Some marketers "get it" and some don't. I just had a meeting with Bengt and Victoria from the Swedish HMI manufacturer Beijer, and they "get it." That is, they understand where automation is today and how to build a smart company. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | People Who "Get It" Some marketers "get it" and some don't. I just had a meeting with Bengt and Victoria from the Swedish HMI manufacturer Beijer, and they "get it." That is, they understand where automation is today and how to build a smart company. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 002 - 01.30.2006 Many executives are moaning about the coming loss of expertise as baby boomers retire taking all their knowledge with them. As Dorothy Leonard details in her books "Wellsprings of Knowledge" and "Deep Smarts" they really should be building a learning organization and building their knowledge pools to avoid that disaster. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 002 - 01.30.2006 Many executives are moaning about the coming loss of expertise as baby boomers retire taking all their knowledge with them. As Dorothy Leonard details in her books "Wellsprings of Knowledge" and "Deep Smarts" they really should be building a learning organization and building their knowledge pools to avoid that disaster. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 001 - 01.18.2006 Manufacturing software industry consolidation took a new turn last week as Gary Mintchell describes in this podcast. Not only was one company acquired, but a venture firm took an equity stake in another company and raised the bidding for a third. RSS has had a tremendous impact on the way information flows over the Web. Shouldnât manufacturing software suppliers be looking at this technology as well? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Automation Minutes 001 - 01.18.2006 Manufacturing software industry consolidation took a new turn last week as Gary Mintchell describes in this podcast. Not only was one company acquired, but a venture firm took an equity stake in another company and raised the bidding for a third. RSS has had a tremendous impact on the way information flows over the Web. Shouldn’t manufacturing software suppliers be looking at this technology as well? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |