Fighting symptoms is the wrong approach — Last week someone suggested to put ‘digitalisation’ in the buzzword graveyard, next to IIoT, blockchain, Industry 4.0 and some other terms. …

Why AI isn’t a real threat – yet — The past 8 months have been interesting in our world of computer science and software engineering. With ‘our’ I mean all of us, but also the teams I’m working with right now. Recently I wrote a bit about Unified Namespaces for industrial automation, which is something we are spending a…

Having built our Unified Namespace (UNS) on MQTT and Sparkplug B, we have the infrastructure in place to enable bidirectional communication between any node in our system. This applies to edge nodes as well as devices, and also to any connected MES or ERP system. In that sense, it should…

This is the first in a series of three posts on Unified Namespace, a concept for Industry 4.0 — to be published between end of March and end of May 2023. In the manufacturing world, we’ve built stacks of software. We have ERP systems that are put on top of…

A short piece, from January, which is slowly being caught up by the release of GPT-4, but in essence still true. The past few months the world of LinkedIn, and the world of computer scientists, geeks and investors has been ruled by the hype over ChatGPT. OpenAI unleashed the beast…

An article on applying existing software engineering practises to smart industry solutions. — How often haven’t you asked that question, “what happened back then?”, after discovering a problem that was caused by something that happened way back in the past. It could help a lot to answer questions like that when you have data available from the time the problem occurs. However, as…

Yesterday I came across this video on LinkedIn. The poster commented, sarcastically, that he could not wait for AI to take over the world. Of course, I understand the sarcasm and the joke, but looking at the discussions underneath the post, I also concluded that a lot is to be…

Copywriters got it wrong. Titles with numbers don’t work. Actually, they do work, but only if applied in the right context. If you want to sell something, like an unrealistic course on making 6 figures passive income within a month. …

It’s 9PM on a Friday evening. I walk over to the kitchen counter, press a few buttons. A plate of biscuits and a glass of orange juice appear, which I take to the living room. …