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<title>Automation Minutes - Gary Mintchell</title>
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<title>Automation Minutes 050 - 04.25.2008</title>
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<title>Automation Minutes 049 - 04.20.2008</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:04:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Automation Minutes 048 - 04.01.2008</title>
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<description><![CDATA[On the road again, Gary reviews the WBF meeting, Interphex and a trip to ABB to take a technology dive into its system architecture. He also reviews Nicholas Carr's &quot;The Big Switch.&quot;<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 1 Apr 2008 20:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Automation Minutes 047 - 03.25.2008</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Automation Minutes 046 - 03.08.2008</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 8 Mar 2008 14:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Automation Minutes 045 - 01.26.2008</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Automation Minutes 044 - 01.20.2008</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year thoughts about top trends in automation for 2008. Technologies--networking, wireless, information and controllers. Also, how will the strategies of the automation technology suppliers play out during the year. Will there be more sales made over the Web this year?<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 01:04:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Automation Minutes 043 - 12.17.2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Gary discusses the Make2Pack committee meeting, Rockwell/Dassault collaboration for digital factory, programming and time to market for OEMs.<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 02:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Automation Minutes 042 - 12.05.2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Gary discusses the OMAC Symposium, standards, Honeywell's equipment health monitor, NI's move to OEM volume products, The Long Tail and why you should blog.<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 6 Dec 2007 02:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Automation Minutes 041 - 11.19.2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Gary interviews Jeff Becker of Honeywell Process Solutions about wireless technologies for industrial use including wireless sensor networks, WiFi, wireless for control and an update on the ISA SP100 committee.<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Automation Minutes 040 - 11.05.2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Gary interviews Dave Bauman, Technical Director of OMAC. Dave reviews the OMAC presence at Pack Expo and explains what is happening with the organization's first annual Symposium to be held in the Seattle area Nov. 28-29. A tour of the Boeing 787 assembly facility is included in the conference. Discussion will center on integrating standards across process and discrete industries. Sign up at www.omac.org.<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 5 Nov 2007 19:22:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Automation Minutes 039 - 10.11.2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's all about Ethernet. Gary talks with Paul Wacker, product manager for industrial communications at Advantech Corp. Topics include managed versus unmanaged switches, when to use IGMP snooping with EtherNet/IP and other protocols, the value of virtual LANs and some tips on network security.<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Automation Minutes 038 - 09.11.2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Gary discusses Wonderware's latest product announcements plus product announcements and strategies gleaned from the Emerson Global Users Exchange in Dallas. He also reports on a new online store for automation components.<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:04:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Automation Minutes 037 - 08.18.2007</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Automation Minutes 036 - 07.30.2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Gary interviews Dave Bauman, Technical Director of OMAC. They discuss OMAC technologies such as PackML and PackTags plus OMAC's plans for demonstrations of technology during Pack Expo in Las Vegas October 16-18.<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Automation Minutes 035 - 07.23.2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Gary updates Emerson's wireless information, addresses response to his challenge to automation suppliers about machine programming <br/>and takes a look at brain drain.<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:58:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Automation Minutes 034 - 07.09.2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Gary talks strategies in the wireless market and in the ever more competitive process automation market. He issues another challenge to machine control tech suppliers to make their programming environments more user friendly after Rockwell Automation accepted his last challenge to discuss their approach.<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 9 Jul 2007 15:09:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Automation Minutes 033 - 06.01.2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Gary visits the Center for Intelligent Maintenance Systems Forum and Packaging Automation Forum, editorializes on programming standards and discusses the Rockwell purchase of IMS Triplex.<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 1 Jun 2007 18:12:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Automation Minutes 032 - 05.09.2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Gary visits Interphex, WBF and Matrikon conferences. How can we get people involved in technical leadership in automation?<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 9 May 2007 20:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Automation Minutes 031 - 04.23.2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Automating agriculture, OPC security, Schneider Electric support for CIP networks, FDT/EDDL cooperation, Hart Wireless Spec.<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Automation Minutes 030 - 03.18.2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Gary Mintchell chats with Jim Pinto about his recent trip to India and a tour of Infosys. Information includes thoughts on global competitiveness, training, recruitment, ideas for American competitiveness.<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 19:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Automation Minutes 029 - 03.09.2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Guest Paul Wacker, eAutomation Product Manager, discusses Ethernet in manufacturing with host Gary Mintchell. Topics include manufacturing environment and network administration tips.<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 9 Mar 2007 21:07:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Automation Minutes 028 - 02.27.2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[News from ARC Forum and Fieldbus Foundation annual meeting including reports of interviews with industry CEOs, new products and more.<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:26:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Automation Minutes 027 - 01.30.2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Siemens purchase, Bosch Rexroth technology, shout out to Radwell, Honeywell joint effort, who goes to conferences.<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Automation Minutes 026 - 01.20.2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Emerson wireless announcement, process control system migration, is M2M growing, programming methods and systems<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Automation Minutes 025 - 01.08.2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Built-to-change organizations, teams beat strategy every time, new year's resolutions (not)<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 8 Jan 2007 19:33:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Automation Minutes 024 - 12.12.2006</title>
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<description><![CDATA[News from Invensys User Conference, wireless, Make2Pack meeting, selling the new software solutions.<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:09:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Automation Minutes 023 - 12.03.2006</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Innovation and leadership, the Yokogawa North American Users Conference. Technology and performance management.<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 4 Dec 2006 05:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Automation Minutes 022 - 11.22.2006</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Pack Expo observations; variable frequency drives; Schneider Electric changes; having great panel discussions.<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 22:02:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Automation Minutes 021 - 11.03.2006</title>
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<description><![CDATA[News from Automation Fair including new products and important announcements on software direction.<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 4 Nov 2006 00:09:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Automation Minutes 020 - 10.28.2006</title>
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<description><![CDATA[News from the ISA Expo in Houston. Developments in wireless sensor networks.<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2006 18:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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<title>Automation Minutes 019 - 10.13.2006</title>
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<description><![CDATA[News from the Emerson Exchange on wireless and from MESA International on Metrics Matter.<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2006 21:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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<title>Automation Minutes 018 - 09.19.2006</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Gary interviews Carter Johnson, vice president of Visiprise and conference chair of the MESA International Plant2Enterprise conference that will be held October 9-12 at the Disney Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando.<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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<title>Automation Minutes 017 - 09.18.2006</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Production performance management and manufacturing intelligence. Empower operators to operate a plant profitably. Organize for the 21st century. Adobe version 8 3D and Connect.<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:46:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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<title>Automation Minutes 016 - 09.08.2006</title>
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<description><![CDATA[eMvoy, a new company that offers nationwide rating of manufacturers searchable by location or category. OMAC comments and questions. New book &quot;Thinking for a Living&quot; about managing knowledge workers.<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 8 Sep 2006 15:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>Gary Mintchell</itunes:author>
<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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<title>Automation Minutes 015 - 08.18.2006</title>
<link>http://automation.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=121268#</link>
<description><![CDATA[Trip reports on Profibus (PTO) annual meeting in Phoenix, National Instruments' NI Week and trip to Emerson Process. News from Automation Federation, HMS and general fieldbus thoughts.<br/>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:33:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>Gary Mintchell</itunes:author>
<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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<title>Automation Minutes 014 - 07.28.2006</title>
<link>http://automation.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=114509#</link>
<description><![CDATA[Interview with John Ross of Citect<br/>Dealing with Darwin<br/>Guns, Germs and Steel<br/>IAONA disbands<br/>See you at Profibus Annual Meeting in Phoenix<br/>Control cover story on Fighting the Fieldbus Wars -- really it's no longer war, just competition]]></description>
<category>podcasts</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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<title>Automation Minutes 013 - 07.17.2006</title>
<link>http://automation.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=111035#</link>
<description><![CDATA[Return from Alaska; ARC Forum; OPC UA spec released along with vendor support; Siemens and Emerson work for interoperability plus challenge to ODVA; manufacturing analysis-GM, Ford, Airbus; <br/>Schneider, Invensys, MESA conferences; send ideas for 2007 coverage.<br/>]]></description>
<category>podcasts</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>Gary Mintchell</itunes:author>
<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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<title>automation Minutes 012 - 06.16.2006</title>
<link>http://automation.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=101456#</link>
<description><![CDATA[Honeywell Users Group and Rockwell Automation RSTechEd. Editor ethics, process control systems forum and energy harvesting device to charge batteries.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 17:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>Gary Mintchell</itunes:author>
<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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<title>Automation Minutes 011 - 06.07.2006</title>
<link>http://automation.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=98548#</link>
<description><![CDATA[Reports on GE Fanuc and Siemens users groups, on demand computing and mobile applications.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 7 Jun 2006 20:49:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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<title>Automation Minutes 010 - 05.26.2006</title>
<link>http://automation.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=94612#</link>
<description><![CDATA[Gary Mintchell's Automation Minutes including further notes on news from Hannover, MES/HMI and PLM combination, ISA standards updates, the ABB users conference and the Packaging Automation Forum.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 16:49:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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<title>Automation Minutes 009 - 05.02.2006</title>
<link>http://automation.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=86312#</link>
<description><![CDATA[Report on Boston trip for Invensys InFusion announcement. Report from Hannover Fair.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 2 May 2006 18:39:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>Gary Mintchell</itunes:author>
<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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<title>Automation Minutes 008 - 04.01.2006</title>
<link>http://automation.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=75484#</link>
<description><![CDATA[Not an April Fools joke, but ruminations on some market forces affecting automation professionals. Also announcing my upcoming trip to the Hannover Fair and thoughts on the Automation Federation (what, no AA 12-step jokes?).]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 1 Apr 2006 14:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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<title>Automation Minutes 007 - 03.20.2006</title>
<link>http://automation.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=71386#</link>
<description><![CDATA[Another edition of Gary Mintchell's Automation Minutes. News on important software survey, notes on standards, thoughts for marketing people, innovation and adoption of technology.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2006 01:58:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>Gary Mintchell</itunes:author>
<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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<title>Automation Minutes 006 - 03.06.2006</title>
<link>http://automation.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=66228#</link>
<description><![CDATA[News and views from the world of automation from the editor in chief of Automation World magazine. Includes discussion of software interoperability and some Linux and Java thoughts.]]></description>
<category>podcasts</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 6 Mar 2006 19:16:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>Gary Mintchell</itunes:author>
<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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<title>Automation Minutes 005 - 02.21.2006</title>
<link>http://automation.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=61084#</link>
<description><![CDATA[Live from the ARC Forum in Orlando, Rockwell Sr. VP of Global Industry Solutions Keiran Coulton discusses his new role and the company's emphasis on vertical industry solutions.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:49:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>Gary Mintchell</itunes:author>
<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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<title>Automation Minutes 004 - 02.17.2006</title>
<link>http://automation.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=59557#</link>
<description><![CDATA[Sitting in for Gary Mintchell, Dave Newcorn speaks with P&G's open architecture evangelist, Dave Chappell, direct from Italy, on the results of the Make2Pack meeting held earlier in the day with about 40 Italian packaging machinery OEMs. Chappell talks about the implications of Make2Pack for all machine builders, both foreign and domestic, as well as end users. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2006 04:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<author>gmintchell@automationworld.com</author>
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<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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<item>
<title>People Who &#34;Get It&#34;</title>
<link>http://automation.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=56831#</link>
<description><![CDATA[Some marketers "get it" and some don't. I just had a meeting with Bengt and Victoria from the Swedish HMI manufacturer Beijer, and they "get it." That is, they understand where automation is today and how to build a smart company.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 9 Feb 2006 13:59:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<author>gmintchell@automationworld.com</author>
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<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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<title>Automation Minutes 002 - 01.30.2006</title>
<link>http://automation.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=53255#</link>
<description><![CDATA[Many executives are moaning about the coming loss of expertise as baby boomers retire taking all their knowledge with them. As Dorothy Leonard details in her books "Wellsprings of Knowledge" and "Deep Smarts" they really should be building a learning organization and building their knowledge pools to avoid that disaster.]]></description>
<category>podcasts</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<author>gmintchell@automationworld.com</author>
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<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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<title>Automation Minutes 001 - 01.18.2006</title>
<link>http://automation.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=49061#</link>
<description><![CDATA[Manufacturing software industry consolidation took a new turn last week as Gary Mintchell describes in this podcast. Not only was one company acquired, but a venture firm took an equity stake in another company and raised the bidding for a third. RSS has had a tremendous impact on the way information flows over the Web. Shouldnât manufacturing software suppliers be looking at this technology as well?]]></description>
<category>podcasts</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2006 00:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<author>gmintchell@automationworld.com</author>
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<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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