The Jim Pinto Column: Top companies and trends April 2008, News Top automation companies
Working with ARC this year, CONTROL magazine has cleaned up the criteria for its list of 'Top-50 Automation Vendors'. Editor Walt Boyes of CONTROL, and Larry O’Brien of ARC - ...
Read more...The Jim Pinto Column: Pinto's 2008 prognostications March 2008, News More than ever before, the world seems to be on the verge of disaster. We are all surrounded by a cacophony of bad news and warnings.
The continuing wars and terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan, belligerent ...
Read more...The Jim Pinto Column: Innovation, presentation and enjoyment February 2008, Analytical Instrumentation & Environmental Monitoring Automation innovation
Since automation is such a fragmented business, most innovation comes from start-ups. The major companies all have a conglomeration of products, each with relatively small volume, ...
Read more...The Jim Pinto Column: Acquisitions and challenges January 2008, News Whom will GE acquire?
You know the expression, 'A rising tide floats all boats'. Well most industrial automation companies are doing well now, and this signals the distinct possibility that more major ...
Read more...The Jim Pinto Column: Acquire or collaborate? December 2007, News ABB growth plans
ABB expects sustained revenue growth and increased profitability under its mid-term strategy for 2007 to 2011. Demand for new and upgraded power infrastructure and further industrial ...
Read more...Change and open systems November 2007, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News "Change is inevitable, growth is intentional." Glenda Cloud
The Web is a fantastic resource. I was looking for a quote on `change' with which to open this month's editorial comment and up popped the ...
Read more...The Jim Pinto Column: Disintermediation and disappearing jobs October 2007, News New perspectives on disintermediation
Disintermediation is the removal of supply chain intermediaries - 'cutting out the middleman'. Instead of going through traditional distribution channels (distributors, ...
Read more...News digest September 2007, News Adept Technology, a provider of intelligent vision-guided robotics and global robotics services, has announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has awarded the company three patents ...
Read more...The Jim Pinto Column: Recognition, risk and reward September 2007, News ISA - International Society of Automation
Recently, I spent a couple of days with Pat Gouhin, the new ISA executive director. We had plenty of time to talk as we drove together from Los Angeles to San ...
Read more...The Jim Pinto Column: Wireless and wake-up call August 2007, News Honeywell announces 'OneWireless'
OneWireless is a clever idea: a 3-in-1 box multiradio, multiport wireless access point that supports multiple industrial protocols and applications simultaneously. OneWireless ...
Read more...News briefs August 2007, News International News
Advantech and Microsoft Corporation have signed an agreement for Microsoft Embedded systems. The deal gives Advantech the go-ahead to distribute Windows Embedded software across ...
Read more...The Jim Pinto Column: E-mail bankruptcy and winning ways July 2007, News Declaring e-mail bankruptcy
In 2006 six trillion business e-mails were sent. E-mail traffic has nearly doubled in the past two years. And now e-mail is giving many people the feeling that it is too much; ...
Read more...News digest June 2007, News Internaternational news
Red Lion has again been selected as the number one choice in panel meters by the readers of Control Design magazine. Red Lion has won the panel meter category of the Reader's ...
