Sunday, December 12, 2010

Two New Important MTConnect Groups - Education, Marketing and Evangelism Group and Cloud Computing Group

Paul Warndorf announced this in the recent MTConnect Newsletter and I wanted to also wanted to announce this on my blog.  The Technical Advisory Group (TAG) met at DMG-Mori Seiki in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, on November 10th I announced the creation of two new important groups.   The first new MTConnect Group is:

Education, Marketing and Evangelism Group

We will work on the strategy we need to have in place to execute on the following:

  • Case Studies, Case Studies, Case Studies,
  • Educating Sales Folks,
  • Articles,
  • Blogs,
  • Developers Groups,
  • Podcasts,
  • Webinars,
  • Conferences,
  • Users Group, and
  • Funding MTConnect.”
The first new MTConnect Group is the:

Cloud Computing Group

This group will work on the strategy we need to have in order to enable:

  • Recruiting and working with cloud computing companies so they can provide the software services manufacturing software companies need to best take advantage of the cloud.  As we enable MTConnect on the factory floor, we are going to see an increasing need to have this data analyzed and integrated.  The cloud offers tremendous opportunities that we simply must take advantage of

If you are interested in participating in either of these groups, please contact me.