Gary Mintchell

March 14, 2022

In Person Meetings, Cool Podcasts, IoT Changes

The ODVA held its annual general meeting last week in San Diego, and I was there. It was my second post-pandemic business trip. People greeted each other happy to be in person. My take on information shared was posted last week on The Manufacturing Connection. https://themanufacturingconnection.com/2022/03/odva-wraps-up-annual-general-meeting-detailing-much-activity/ I also recorded a podcast, 237 It's Too Complicated, found here https://automation.libsyn.com/237-its-too-complicated. Or, you can watch it on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Ga-rZz1rM

Other networking news and developments you can find at The Manufacturing Connection include 5G and private networking and chip advances. This topic will heat up this year as more companies implement advanced networks for bandwidth and security.

Companies who have developed advanced product information management applications have been a new addition to my coverage. These companies develop algorithms and math to handle the complexity of managing huge numbers of product variations and supply chain issues. 

A few years back the hot topic was IoT. Companies had IoT groups. Websites (and businesses around them) sprang up. I even got some business based on covering connectivity (read IoT). The groups have been disbanded. Coverage is changing. Stacey Higgenbotham of Stacey on IoT recently discussed her expanded areas of coverage. HPE's Tom Bradicich still writes on IoT issues, but his position at HPE changed and broadened. HPE now refers to Edge-to-Cloud. I've always been broader than IoT, so I am not really affected. But I find how markets change interesting.

Open Source Software continues to make advances. There is continual news coming from the Linux Foundation and Industrial IoT Consortium.

Podcasts have been on my daily agenda for twenty years. Here are some recents that are interesting and educating:

Analysts Benedict Evans and Toni Cowen-Brown discuss current tech trends at Another Podcast another-podcast.simplecast.com . Check out "Asking Dumb Questions."

John Gruber of Daring Fireball interviews Ken Locienda about the origins of the iPhone https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2022/02/28/ep-339

Listen to the most impassioned plea for science and math education I've heard on Moira Gunn's TechNation podcast interview with George Yancopoulos, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-22-03-regeneron-how-we-create-innovative-scientists/id876042622?i=1000547808965

I've practiced varieties of health and fitness activities for years. Peter Attia, MD, has become a favored source of information. Check out How Fructose Drives Metabolic Disease https://peterattiamd.com/rickjohnson2/ and The Science of Obesity https://peterattiamd.com/davidallison/

What's the big problem you are solving?

Gary