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Which of These Will Change Your Game?

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Submitted by ajhand on Fri, 01/20/2012 - 15:59.

In a recent OEM Insight, GeorgiaTech engineering professor Dirk Schaefer highlighted a few industry game changers that he hopes to explore in further detail this year. Among those game changers are complex social networks—not only the LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter networks that most of us are familiar with, but also other self-organizing communities that can change the way that organizations collaborate and innovate.

Crowd sourcing, mass collaboration, and the increasingly familiar cloud computing are a few of the terms that Schaefer discusses.  read more »

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Pushing Innovation

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Submitted by ajhand on Fri, 01/13/2012 - 17:31.

Seems that everywhere you turn these days, there's talk about innovation. Maybe a lot of the discussion started with the death of Steve Jobs in October, when so many reports pointed to Jobs as a key technology innovator and innovative leader. When Jeremy Pollard wrote his Embedded Intelligence column for the October issue of Control Design (Jobs had just left Apple, but then died before we went to press), he called it "iInnovation," of course.  read more »

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Well Now. Nation, This Just Might Be Fun

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Submitted by joe feeley on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 20:39.

PLANTVILLE--An Innovative Online Game Simulates a Plant Manager's Experience Challenging Players to Increase Productivity, Sustainability and the Overall Health of an Industrial Plant  read more »

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Car Talk

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Submitted by joe feeley on Fri, 02/25/2011 - 22:31.

To finish out the week: This is nothing more than an expensive VW commercial, but you have to admit, it looks like a pretty slick place to build cars.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/nd5WGLWNllA?rel=0

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About That Innovation Post

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Submitted by joe feeley on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 17:52.

Got this response to my post about MAG's "no coolant" machining center. I'll repost the link to it below Dal's comments if you don't know what this about

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Another Opinion on Relays vs. microPLCs

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Submitted by joe feeley on Tue, 06/01/2010 - 23:06.

Jeremy Pollard sent this along in response to the June RealAnswers question from the reader who uses a micro-PLC for his company's metal-cutting machines.

"My initial reaction wouldn't be printed. But how's this. Wake up and innovate! I don't mean to single you out as there are a ton of machine OEMs who continue to do the same thing...

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2010 Innovator Awards

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Submitted by kbonfante on Tue, 02/23/2010 - 19:49.

Nominate the most innovative machine builders you know to be considered for Control Design's annual machine automation awards.

Control Design is looking for industrial machine builders and system integrators who have used automation and controls technology in an innovative way to increase machine performance, reduce costs, improve marketplace standing, overcome foreign competition or secure other outstanding results.  read more »

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It Works Great, but....

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Submitted by joe feeley on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 21:11.

Umm, Pete, the machine runs like a charm, but I think we better go back and review the criteria for "purpose" in the RFQ.

http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Most-Useless-Machine/

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AutomationXchange---Time to make the 2009 roster

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Submitted by joe feeley on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 16:35.

So here we are again. Time to get started selecting and assembling the 2009 attendees for our annual AutomationXchange.

Those of you machine builders and SIs who have attended, feel free to chime in here and support or dispute what I say about the event.  read more »

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Draw your own line

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Submitted by kbonfante on Thu, 01/08/2009 - 17:46.

How well are you herding your customers' expectations?

Read our story "Get a Grip on Machine Performance" where we talk about machine builders helping their customers' dreams take flight. Sometimes it's hard to keep overly inflated expectations under control.

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