Pivot to Toys, Products, POC, Ecosystems, Design for....

Wow. Did not realize had not posted in so long. Have been busy on a pivot to products (and toys *grin*). Have to fill  in some things learned along the way. Big concepts: Proof of concept (POC) projects. Ecosystems at scale. Design for manufacturability, easy-configuration, security, low-cost, …. easy-re-configuration (not the same as at startup). Cheers, Albert

Cimetrics Introduces Analytika for Internet of Things.

Analytics for Internet of Things... Previously.

Picked up by

- CNBC.
- BusinessWire.
- Automation.com

Analytika for IoT extends existing analytics capabilities to address the needs of designers, manufacturers, owners and operators of all kinds of “things”. And provides a variety of cost saving and revenue-enhancing value propositions for the Internet of Things.

Staying on Track Blogging.

Stay on Track Blogging 2015 by thoughtlight, LLC, Thursday, February 5, 2015 from 6 to 8 PM.

Great group, presentation and ideas. At 50 Milk Street at new(ish) CIC Boston. Visit to the space worthwhile. Takeaways:
- schedule regular blogging
- images always worthwhile (even a little relevance is fine).
- okay to curate or review.

So as a part of the scheduling "exercise": Editorial calendar : (and maybe this has some tongue in cheek spirit *grin*):

Thousand blogs by end of main career (next two decades). Smoothed average: four to five blogs a month.

Current feature: IoT. Ongoing emphasis: Energy and metrology. With a mix of hobbies, book reviews, sociology, robotics, manufacturing, design, toys, transportation, travel, science, engineering and so on.

Analytics for Manufacturing - MTConnect Insights.

Have been looking around for analytics applied to manufacturing processes. View to how to optimize business value of the manufacturing process (aka ROI, efficiency, etc.). [And optimization can be about consumables, parts, energy - usually uptime and reliability are key concerns.]
Found an approach with the following components:
Protocol or language: MTConnect. Wrote about MTConnect before.
Tools: Systems Insights VIMANA and their partners like Autodesk and Yamazaki Mazak.
Then apply model based analytics ala Analytika.

Network Enhanced Everything - NEE.

Have discussed "supers" previously - capacitors, batteries, insulation - and in general - materials...
also LEDs, solar photovoltaics and other renewables.

Lately thinking about everything network (and computer) enhanced...
Enhanced - manufacturing, services, handling, inventory, sensing, communications and analytics.
By no means comprehensive, but meant to encompass some popular specifics like
robotics, 3D fabrication, telepresence, IoT and M2M.

PBS - America Revealed - Yul Kwon

My wife happened by this television program, and put me onto America Revealed on PBS http://www.pbs.org/america-revealed/

Host Yul Kwan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yul_Kwon

Stories on transportation, manufacturing, energy and food http://www.pbs.org/america-revealed/story/

Have interest in them all. Have blogged on these topics. The series presentations have something for everyone. Learned something from each.

American Manufacturing

Article in the Atlantic on American manufacturing.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/01/making-it-in-america/8844/

Knew manufacturung had changed, and even knew about details of machines, technology and communications. But the social and technical systemic re-arrangements were a revelation. Gets to low level reasons for changes that have high level effects in the overall economy. Without the personal stories, was like something would have stumbled across in Scientific American. But the personal stories made the piece flow.