Manufacturing and the Trade War

The year hasn’t started off well in terms of news for the manufacturing sector. While the first official numbers for 2020 won’t be out for several more weeks, the ISM (Institute for Supply Management) has released its December 2019 Manufacturing ISM Report On Business, which suggests economic activity in manufacturing contracted in December, despite overall…

Future of 5G

As I stated in a previous column and on my radio show, 5G was pretty popular once again this year, but there was a different feeling in the air about it. Okay, I do agree there might have been some 5G fatigue from years of hype. The post Future of 5G appeared first on Connected…

CES 2020 Trends and Wrap up

CES 2020 did not disappoint if you were looking for IoT (Internet of Things), AI (artificial intelligence), and almost any connected technologies you could only dream about and perhaps a few you might have never imagined. Toyota announced Woven City, a sort of “living laboratory” at the foot of Japan’s Mt. Fuji that will focus…