Thank you to Bernard Silver and Joseph Woodland for inventing the very first bar code. It has saved businesses countless dollars, time and energy. When you think about all the processes that go on in many businesses today it’s truly a competitive advantage to have automated processes. Think of things like asset management, inventory management,…
The raw products of oil and gas enterprises are fungible commodities that by their very nature resist tracking – bulk products that defy labeling, serialization and, often, even containment. But, that’s not to say that the oil and gas industry doesn’t face challenges common to many others. Strip away its unique end products and what…
Advantech provides a number of online resources of interest to enterprises worldwide, including its MedAdvantech Digital Healthcare series devoted to the advancement of patient-centric technologies, and it was there that I came across a June 2012 article contributed by John Koon, publisher of Medical Electronic Device Solution (MEDS), entitled How Wireless Technologies Impact the Future…
Communication requires some mutual standard – a shared language – and this is as true of electronic devices as it is of us humans. Among the most enduring and universally accepted standards or languages by which electronic systems communicate is the Modbus serial protocol, formulated in 1979 by Modicon (which organization was eventually acquired by…
Described most simply, the internal computer bus serves to transfer data between the computer’s CPU and its peripheral components, such as its hard-drive, memory, sound and video systems. Consequently, usable PC performance is limited by bus capacity. Unfortunately, bus capacity has during various eras of PC development lagged behind advancements in the performance of CPUs…
It’s clear that the advent of the bar code has simplified our lives – we can check-in at airports, see a movie, and pay for lunch just by showing the clerk the bar code on our phone. We’re reducing our footprint more and more each day – when was the last time you wrote…
This is the third post inspired by Advantech’s white paper, Industrial Bus & Network Standards. The previous two entries explored the dynamics which favor standardization in general, some obvious and some not, and then the Ethernet standard specifically. This installment will delve into the paper’s revelation of just where the greatest cost of implementation of…
I introduced Advantech’s white paper, Industrial Bus and Network Standards, in a previous blog post and highlighted the overriding advantages that standardization brings to industry as: Maximized Economies of Scale Constructive Specialization Facilitation of Strategic Alliances When it comes to enterprise and home computing technology, there is no better example of each of these advantages…
I like the white-paper form of business-to-business reporting, and Advantech has served up a perfect example of why with, Industrial Bus and Network Standards. Not only does it add interesting historical context to the communications formats that are by now so familiar to us all, but it reminds us just how critical such standards are…
When considering the ruggedness and overall fitness for challenging service of any high-tech equipment, I apply the Post-Apocalypse-Readiness Test. Will it stand up to lonely years of critical service in a fortified post-apocalyptic-wasteland bunker? When it comes to that well-documented environment, with all its heat, quakes, dust and hordes of slow-shuffling zombies trying to get…
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