Dennis Scimeca

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Technology Editor at IndustryWeek magazine.Bylines in Salon, NPR, Ars Technica, Kotaku, Polygon, GamesBeat, Daily Dot, Mic, Unwinnable. Opinions mine.

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So That Happened: Kraft Heinz Brands for Sale?

2 weeks ago | industryweek.com | Geert De Lombaerde |Laura Putre |Dennis Scimeca |Anna Smith

Things Could Get Chippy at 3M Since taking over at 3M Co. a year ago, Chairman and CEO Bill Brown has preached about the need to regenerate the company’s organic growth engine, including by launching new products at the rate the conglomerate used to. At the recent Bank of America Industrials, Transportation & Airlines Key Leaders Conference, Brown spoke of another opportunity to goose 3M’s top line.
Manufacturing Still Leads Other Industries in Total Cybersecurity Incidents

1 month ago | industryweek.com | Dennis Scimeca

Don’t get lulled into a false sense of cybersecurity just because you’re not hearing about manufacturers hammered with production losses or paying out massive ransomware demands. Threat actors are out there and waiting for you to lower your guard. In 2023, Boeing refused a ransomware demand and the malware gang LockBit published sensitive data on the dark web. Dole’s systems got hacked and led to their shutting down North American operations.
Podcast: Inside John Deere’s Waterloo plant - A model for 5G in modern manufacturing

1 month ago | plantservices.com | Robert Schoenberger |Dennis Scimeca

Key takeawaysJohn Deere built an in-house 5G network to support smarter, more flexible manufacturing operations. 5G offers lower latency and better device mobility than Wi-Fi in dense factory environments. Technical storytelling helps bridge the IT/OT divide in advanced manufacturing systems. Smart factories need both the right tech and the right talent to manage complex systems like 5G.
How John Deere Conquered 5G for Manufacturing

1 month ago | industryweek.com | Dennis Scimeca

John Deere, founded in 1837, is best known for manufacturing heavy machinery for agriculture, construction and forestry. The company has evolved from manufacturing steel plows to selling smart farming systems and breaking ground on the development of fully autonomous tractors. While the term 5G has for years been familiar to anyone that uses smartphones, tablets and other consumer electronics, 5G technology is still finding its place in the manufacturing world.
Is Getting an AI Agent for Your Machine Tools a Good Idea?

2 months ago | industryweek.com | Dennis Scimeca

In an agentic AI model, rather than a trigger telling a control function to [slow down the machine], you actually have the machinery recognizing that the input speed has slowed down. Dennis Scimeca: If each station in a production line can control itself and read what’s happening before and after it on the line and make its own decisions, doesn’t that take the human entirely out of the equation?
Augmenting Reality at Ford Motor (Video)

2 months ago | industryweek.com | Dennis Scimeca

Augmented reality (AR) is one of the most accessible advanced technologies available to manufacturers today. Anyone who’s worn a pair of glasses knows precisely how to use the hardware. But if you order up some AR devices without a plan, you’ll probably only wind up with another toy sitting on a shelf somewhere. James Massey, senior team leader at Ford’s Rawsonville Components Plant near Detroit, historically doesn’t wear a smile when going about his duties in the shop.
Don't Go Blind in March!: So That Happened

2 months ago | industryweek.com | Geert De Lombaerde |Anna Smith |Dennis Scimeca |Ryan Secard

Editor’s note: Welcome to So That Happened, our editors’ takes on things going on in the manufacturing world that deserve some extra attention. This will appear regularly in the Member’s Only section of the site. Would supporters of tariffs consider them a success if they led to one in three manufacturing businesses increasing their domestic production capacity? It strikes us as quite likely that they would raise a glass to that outcome.
Augmenting Reality at Ford Motor (Video)

2 months ago | manufacturingtechnologytoday.com | Dennis Scimeca

Augmented reality (AR) is one of the most accessible advanced technologies available to manufacturers today. Anyone who’s worn a pair of glasses knows precisely how to use the hardware. But if you order up some AR devices without a plan, you’ll probably only wind up with another toy sitting on a shelf somewhere. James Massey, senior team leader at Ford’s Rawsonville Components Plant near Detroit, historically doesn’t wear a smile when going about his duties in the shop.
Oshkosh Keeps Tech in Check

Mar 7, 2025 | industryweek.com | Dennis Scimeca

Rather than each cross-segment team assessing external partnerships and acquisitions, since 2019 Oshkosh deploys a centralized corporate venture capital (CVC) team that works across all segments and hunts for companies that augment Oshkosh’s tech portfolio.
Developing the technology behind Kubota's cutting-edge tractors

Feb 18, 2025 | smartindustry.com | Dennis Scimeca

What you’ll learn:Kubota’s challenge is to conduct product development under a shared leadership structure that melds its tried-and-true R&D at the more rapid pace of tech company iteration cycles. Kubota in 2024 began working with the Silicon Valley Innovation Center in a strategy of buy some, contract with others. Commercializing the technology Kubota acquires through startups presents its own, unique headaches, for instance at the dealership level.