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Bill Lydon

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Editor In Chief at Automation.com

Contributing Editor at InTech Magazine

Experienced automation industry consultant & author providing advice, insights; industry analysis. Frequent articles in http://t.co/IxpQv3xX & InTech magazine.

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  • 1 month ago | automation.com | Bill Lydon

    Understand the trade-offs and investments needed to create an integrated, real-time, industrial manufacturing business. There are many open architecture initiatives, discussions and products for industrial manufacturing and process companies to consider and determine if they are positive business investments that will improve or hurt competitiveness and profits.

  • Oct 30, 2024 | automation.com | Bill Lydon

    The PLC vs. DSC Experience Survey interim report is an ongoing, crowdsourced, open survey for users to share experience and know-how with the automation community. The PLC vs. DSC Experience Survey interim report is an ongoing, crowdsourced, open survey for users to share experience and know-how with the automation community. Take the survey here. Using a PLC-based system rather than a Distributed Control Systems (DCS) has been a growing discussion for several years.

  • Oct 29, 2024 | automation.com | Bill Lydon

    Summary The AWS IMTS 2024 booth featured embedded hardware providers to integrate the manufacturing edge, sensors, actuators and other devices into the architecture. AWS (Amazon Web Services) Digital Manufacturing Architecture: IMTS 2024 At IMTS 2024, AWS (Amazon WEB Services) and its partners demonstrated technological building blocks from sensor edge to business systems to accomplish industrial digitalization for increasing industrial production efficiency and profits.

  • Oct 28, 2024 | automation.com | Bill Lydon

    The Eclipse Foundation 4diac project has spreadheaded the open-source industrial software movement. The Eclipse Foundation 4diac project has spreadheaded the open-source industrial software movement. The new Aimirim 4diac opensource plugin donated to the community enables using the opensource 4diac IDE (Integrated Development Environment) to create IEC 61499 programs to run on the open source 4diac Forte and controlled source UniversalAutomation.org edge runtime code.

  • Oct 3, 2024 | automation.com | Bill Lydon

    By Bill Lydon October 03, 2024 Microsoft Feature Microsoft's theme at IMTS 2024 was: "Accelerate Industrial Transformation with AI." Microsoft's theme at IMTS 2024 was "Accelerate Industrial Transformation with AI (Artificial Intelligence)," demonstrating products and partner applications.

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19 Jun 23

Teaching AI in primary & secondary schools! How about teaching basic math skills first. This morning listening to a newscast there was an interview of an educator who promoted the idea of teaching AI in primary and secondary schools to all students. I…https://t.co/6Bf27aNrlE

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14 Jun 23

Happy Flag Day! Flag Day is celebrated on June 14. It commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States on June 14, 1777, by resolution of the Second Continental Congress. https://t.co/wsrPzjO6zP