Gary discusses his new personal directions, news from the ARC Forum including emphasis on Cloud Computing, the upcoming ISA Automation Week and the HART Communication Foundation 20th Anniversary.

Gary discusses the current spate of articles in mainstream media about automation and jobs. He also announces a new personal direction.

Gary reviews the latest developments in controllers, software and networking for automation and manufacturing from the end of 2012 and looks forward to what 2013 holds.

Gary discusses leadership in manufacturing, how engineers can become leaders and the need for emotional stability.

Gary discusses interoperability--the connection between systems to move necessary data. He discusses how Mitsubishi has morphed from a machine controls company to one who understands the need to take control to the next level--as spokespeople discuss on a Webcast Gary hosted at http://www.automationworld.com/visible-factory-see-it-all-real-time.

Returning after a few month's hiatus, Gary records from his mobile studio thoughts about the Maintenance and Reliability Technology Summit, his presentation on digital technolgy, and silos in manufacturing companies.

Gary's Labor Day discussion of automation's impact on jobs plus a quick update of some news in the automation industry.

Gary reports on NI Week, National Instruments' annual user conference. He discusses the large turnout, 25 years of LabView, multicore and FPGA parallel programming with LabView and dataflow programming, and NI's growth into a big company.

Gary reports from the Honeywell User Group in Phoenix June 14. He discusses HPS president Norm Gilsdorf's "business transformation" strategy, recaps some of CTO Jason Urso's presentation and discusses, what else, Honeywell's wireless strategy along with thoughts on ISA100.

Wrap up of the ABB User conference with analysis of ABB and Baldor, report on Packaging Automation Forum thoughts on machine safety and programming standards, and report on the MARTS conference and a dinner to benefit autism awareness.