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Wednesday, March 5, 2008 |
Engadget has uncovered another new rugged tablet PC. Sounds like a trend. Company is MobileDemand.
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I've just run across a shameless spam thing that I hope is not hitting anyone else who contributes to Automation World. They picked up an article I wrote and offered to copy it and put it in a plaque for me. If I had a plaque for everything I wrote.... Anyway, we have nothing to do with it and I suggested a use for their plaques. If you get a call from 8005929196, just ignore it. (unless you really do want a plaque with your name on it)
12:10:02 PM
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The PAC post didn't get the responses I might have expected (or feared). But I confirmed that the Rockwell ControlLogix was released in 1997, but the company looked at the features and technologies and worked with Craig Resnick as he defined this new technology space. Graham Harris from Beckhoff also commented that that company released its PAC in 2002 and it is showing substantial sales growth.
Editors are always suspicious of the word "first" in a press release. But I think the important takeaway is that GE Fanuc's PAC, along with several others, is showing broad market acceptance. That means that the technology roadmap laid out by the PC-based control visionaries of the 1990s is now performing great service for automation users worldwide in the 21st century.
Now, Craig, can you define a better word for us than "end users"? People hate being called that since in the American vernacular, "users" are people who do things with certain pharmaceuticals that can land them in local correctional facilities, i.e. jails.
8:44:34 AM
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Training will continue to grow in importance for automation professionals. This could be a good area for companies and universities to offer a value added resource to the industry. Internet-hosted training will become more valuable in the era of both reduced travel and time-challenged personnel. In this case, a Canadian company, Enable Training and Consulting that does data acquisition, process and machine control, motion control and machine vision applications, has launched "LabView Mastery," an online, video-based training curriculum for programmers and integrators who use National Instruments' LabView programming environment. The series is composed of three courses: Beginner, Applications and Professional.
The Beginner course covers an introduction to tools, features, data types and structures. Applications delves deeper into concepts including event structure, state machines and data acquisition. The Professional course features advanced concepts and applications such as typedefs, advanced loop architectures and advanced data acquisition. The Applications and Professional courses include five hours of free online consulting to assist the application of the concepts to current projects. The company also offers online consulting for a fee. Click here for a free trial.
8:33:24 AM
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