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IT Spending: Strong Dollar Continues to Force Downward Revision

By Dick Weisinger

The numbers for 2015 IT spending are crumbling.  In June 2014, Gartner saw 2015 as a big year for global IT spending and forecast 2015 growth to be 3.7 percent.  By January 2015, Gartner revised their estimate to 2.4 percent.  In…

Cloud Computing: Cloud Transforms Shop Floor Manufacturing

By Dick Weisinger

“A central force in manufacturing innovation is the emergence of cloud technology,” is the conclusion of a white paper by Plex called The State of Manufacturing Technology. The report found that “the ability to connect and manage all the resources on…

Human Machine Interface (HMI): The Art of Making Technology Easy

By Dick Weisinger

Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) combine hardware and software to assist humans to better interact with automated systems.  Examples of HMI are humans controlling automated vehicles and interacting with plant floor automation.  In a plant control environment, for example, HMI systems…

Technology: Internet Addresses Running on Low

By Dick Weisinger

A serious pinch to the every expanding internet is expected to hit this summer.  The supply of Internet Protocol addresses has been dwindling and will totally dry up this summer.  An IP address is a short series of numbers with…

Cloud-based Data Warehousing: Snowflake, Microsoft Azure and Amazon Redshift

By Dick Weisinger

Data warehousing traditionally required a company to extract and download huge volumes of data from various business software systems into a central repository for analysis.  The process to prep the data was slow which meant that the analysis was always run against…