Expanding our network
Last month, we announced that we’re joining forces with some very well-respected engineering publications produced by CFE Media. Our new titles include some you’ve likely heard of: Control Engineering, Plant Engineering, Consulting-Specifying Engineer, and Industrial Cybersecurity Pulse. Produced by an award-winning editorial team, these brands help round out our engineering coverage and give readers comprehensive, need-toknow technical information, just as we do. Our shared goal is to make your job easier and keep you informed in the fast-changing engineering and manufacturing world we’re living in.
Speaking of fast-changing, I hope you had the opportunity to come out to our inaugural Digital Transformation Forum in Boston last month. I particularly enjoyed hearing Walker Reynolds of Intellic Integration, one of our keynote speakers. Some of his more interesting takeaways included:
- Hardly anyone can truly define what digital transformation is, but his definition is that it is a strategy for making the data the most important part of your manufacturing business.
- Too many people think Tesla is simply a car company, but it’s a data company. A Tesla is simply the most expensive sensor in the world.
- Tesla is incredibly fast; its Gigifactory in Shanghai went from grass field to operational in nine months, and the company has built a digital ecosystem that will move us away from the traditional assembly line.
- The smartest companies truly leverage their data. Amazon knows what you’re going to buy — six months before you buy it.
- Our children are ten times smarter than we are, due to their vastly improved digital fluency, which is off the charts.
- Talking about today’s and tomorrow’s problems is much more important than focusing on yesterday’s problems.
- If you’re not a data company, you’re a dead company.
Lastly, one final note on our Engineering Diversity + Inclusion issue from last Fall — the issue, which had been a finalist — did come through to win the Neal Award, perhaps the most significant honor in the trade publication space. In my almost three decades of working in b2b media, this was my first time being part of a Neal Award-winning staff. Our team here works hard every day for you, and I’m incredibly proud of them.
Cheers!
Paul J. Heney – VP, Editorial Director
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