Monday, March 26, 2007

Advancing the manufacturing state of th art OMAC held a roundtable on the Monday before the ARC Forum to get an idea of concerns of manufacturing professionals. They were: Manufacturing Network Architecture (security, safety, interoperability, reliability, robustness and patch management) Strategies for equipment compliance to worldwide electrical regulations and safety How to companies resolve conflicting goals of manufacturing and IT How would you like to to work on a team to address these issues and advance the state of the art in the profession? This type of work is very rewarding professionally. If you'd like to help out, contact OMAC Technical Director Dave Bauman. 9:27:03 PM    comment []

New Automation Blogger Thanks to Carl Hennning over at the PTO ProfiBlog for pointing to Pete Welander's new blog at Control Engineering (my old haunt). Welcome to the conversation, Pete. 7:18:42 PM    comment []

Multitasking hurts Gina Trapani of Lifehacker (referring to the latest multitasking study reported by The New York Times) says it shouldn't take a team of 6 researchers to show that multitasking wastes time and can be dangerous (Crackberry users doing emails while driving -- or some Treo users we know). By the way, I don't know why they talk about just kids multitasking. They just have more distractions. I always had rock-n-roll on the radio while I studied--still do. Herman Hesse's novels of the '30s (see Steppenwolf, for example) had heroes turning on radios as soon as they got in their flats. Had to have noise. 10:30:51 AM    comment []