JimPinto - Quick Index of All Writings

Quick Index of all writings

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Industrial Automation
Business & Marketing
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Social & Political commentary
Poetry
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Industrial Automation

Automation Cloud Futures
Oct. 2013
Manufacturing Automation Futures
Sept. 2013
Automation InfoTech Futures
August 2013
Automation Tech Futures
July 2013
Industrial Computer Futures
June 2013
From Fieldbus to Industrial Ethernet
May 2013
Cybersecurity
Apr. 2013
Mobile Devices in Automation
Mar. 2013
Nanomanufacturing
Feb. 2013
Prognostications2013
Jan. 2013
Man/Machine Synthesis
Dec. 2012
Automation in the Cloud
Nov. 2012
Automation IoT
Oct. 2012
Women in Automation
Aug. 2012
Automation Startups
July 2012
Personal Growth & Success
June 2012
Expansion of Thin
May 2012
New Employment Paradigms
Mar. 2012
Automation Innovation Paradigms
Feb. 2012
Prognostications 2012
Jan. 2012
Automation Revolution Overdue
Dec. 2011
Automation Cloud
June 2011
Operator Paradox
May 2011
Automation web media
Mar. 2011
Prognostications 2011
Jan. 2011
Automation Creativity Sleeps
Oct. 2010
Automation: Small is Better
Aug. 2010
Never be Lowest Bid
July/Aug. 2010
Nested Niches
July 2010
Freemium for ISA
Feb. 2010
8 Innovation Ideas
Jan. 2010
Disintermediation
Dec. 2009
Whither ISA?
Nov. 2009
Manufacturing Innovation
Aug. 2009
Future Factories
July 2009
High-value Manufacturing
June 2009
Automation Genome
Apr. 2009
Global Automation Perspectives
Jan. 2009
Automation Skills Enigma
Dec. 2008
ISA International
Nov. 2008
Distributed Intelligence
Oct. 2008
Top-tier Growth Paradigms
Sept. 2008
Wireless Growth Conundrum
August 2008
Tracking Change
June 2008
Networks Choices
May 2008
Automation Skills
Apr. 2008
Wanted: Energy Partnership
Mar. 2008
Business Growth Barriers
Feb. 2008
Robotics Futures
Feb. 2008
2008 Pinto's Pointers
Jan. 2008
ISA Identity Crisis
Nov. 2007
Industrial Wireless Wars
Oct. 2007
ISA - Global Strategy
Sep. 2007
ISA - International Automation
Aug. 2007
Automation History
Apr. 2007
Automation Roots
Mar. 2007
2007 Tech Picks
Jan. 2007
2007 Prognostications
Jan. 2007
Knowledge & Innovation
Dec. 2006
Industrial Ethernet
Nov. 2006
Wireless Growth
Nov. 2006
OPC Standards
Oct. 2006
Wireless Innovation
Oct. 2006
Honywell Culture (2006)
Sept. 2006
NEW Invensys culture
Aug. 2006
ISA - melting iceberg
July 2006
The MTL story
June 2006
ISA Progress
June 2006
Open automation networks
May 2006
Matrikon Culture
Apr. 2006
National Instruments Culture
Apr. 2006
ABB Corporate Culture
Mar. 2006
Robots are coming
Feb. 2006
Schneider - corporate culture
Jan. 2006
What end-users need to know about vendors
Dec. 2005
Network Choices - Wireless Revolution
Dec. 2005
Automation Cyber Security
Dec. 2005
Automation Plus Innovation Wins
Nov. 2005
Price/Margin/Volume Mindset
Nov. 2005
Services - growth on a slippery slope
Oct. 2005
ISA tackles Standards dichotomy
Sept. 2005
ISA governance problems
Sept. 2005
ISA at the crossroads
August 2005
Decline of large exhibitions
July 2005
Automation cyber threats
June 2005
Decline of big exhibitions
May 2005
The Productivity Race
May 2005
Breaking the automation mindset
April 2005
Partnerships for energy alternatives
March 2005
The Schneider culture
March 2005
The Emerson difference
Feb. 2005
Omron - success with a unique philosophy
Jan. 2005
The China manufacturing syndrome
Jan. 2005
The rise & fall of AspenTech
Jan. 2005
The Future of Industrial Automation
Dec. 2004
Never be the lowest bidder
Nov. 2004
ISA: Global Shifts in a New Age
Oct. 2004
Automation Systems Integration – the realm of specialists
May 2004
A realtime boost for productivity
April 2004
To succeed, broaden your horizons
March 2004
Tomorrow's automation leaders
Dec. 2003
Fully automated factories approach reality
Oct. 2003
Dichotomy of open standards
August 2003
Industrial automation inflection points
August 2003
Automate, emigrate or evaporate
June 2003
In a declining economy, what's a good automation techie to do?
Dec. 2002
The Pervasive Internet & its effect on industrial automation
Nov. 2002
Automation: Products Vs. Services
Oct. 2002
Automation: Old dead-ends, new directions
Sept. 2002
New technologies will boost industry out of recession
July 2002
Intelligent, Connected Appliances
May 2002
Dichotomy of open standards
March 2002
Fully automated factories - Futuristic? Or today's reality?
Feb. 2002
InTech eNews - Pinto's Points
Pinto's Law of Open-systems Confusion
Jan. 2002
New growth in old markets
Dec. 2001
Automation eBiz : The new business environment
Sept. 2001
What's Hot for Industrial Automation
July 2001
2001 : Industrial Automation Outlook
Feb. 2001
Prognostications on the Honeywell Sag
aNov. 2000
How do I catch the Fieldbus?
Oct. 2000
Companies in Trouble
Oct. 2000
Industrial Automation - Why is it declining?
Sept. 2000
The Urge to Merge : 2000
Aug. 2000
The Pros and cons of RTDs and Thermocouples
June 2000
Chaos in Manufacturing Conference
May 2000
Disintermediation Stirs up Industrial Automation
Disintermediation-2: the Customer Perspective
Disintemediation-3: Distributors in the driver's seat, Manufacturers get disintermediated
The Changing Face of Automation
Instrumentation & Control on the Frontiers of a New Millennium
Update: Fieldbus - Neutral Instrumentation Vendor's Perspective
Dec. 99
The Great Fieldbus Debate - is Over!
Oct. 99
Rules for Open Systems
Oct. 99
The Urge to Merge...
Sep. 99
Who will Buy Rockwell & A-B?
July 99
Industrial Automation Industry Overview
Oct. 98
What Next? And Who?
July 98
The Advent of Self-organizing Contol Systems
Apr. 98
Fieldbus : A Neutral Instrumentation Vendor's Perspective
July 95
The Law of Market Confusion
Where have all the Players Gone?
The TRULY Distributed Control Revolution
Pressure's on! The Changing Face of Competition
Industrial Computers & Communications - A Dissection
Nov.87

Business & Marketing

Mentor Power
Sep. 2012
Management Paradigms
Apr. 2011
Management Paradigms
Apr. 2011
Generating Growth
Nov. 2011
Generating Jobs
Oct. 2011
People Matter
Sep. 2011
Creating Wealth
Aug. 2011
Manufacturing Returning
July. 2011
Internet of Things
Apr. 2011
Keeping Motivation
Feb. 2011
Collaborative Leadership
Dec. 2010
China Solutions
Nov/Dec. 2010
Swim Upstream
Nov. 2010
China Syndrome
Sep/Oct. 2010
Strategic Manufacturing
Sep. 2010
Future Workforce
June 2010
Staying Globally Competitive
May/June 2010
Safety Culture
May 2010
Sustainability Challenge
Apr. 2010
Re-engineer Yourself
Mar/Apr. 2010
Invest in People
Mar. 2010
New Manufacturing Paradigms
Mar. 2010
Changing Price Paradigms
Jan. 2010
Post-recession Planning
Dec. 2009
Demise of Size
Oct. 2009
Outsourcing revisited
Sep. 2009
Connections Count
May 2009
SaaS Solutions Surge
Mar. 2009
Downturn Strategies
Feb. 2009
New Workplace Paradigms
July 2008
New Price Paradigms
June 2008
Performance-based Pricing
May 2008
China Pricing
Apr. 2008
Winning in Business
Apr. 2008
Green is good business
Mar. 2008
Global Competition
Jan. 2008
Winning Elements
Dec. 2007
Technology flip-side
Dec. 2007
New Manufacturing Strategies
Nov. 2007
Winning in Business
Oct. 2007
Collaboration Strategies
Sep. 2007
Re-defining Leadership
August 2007
Keys to Innovation
July 2007
Staying competitive globally
July 2007
Re-engineer yourself
June 2007
Art of Leadership
June 2007
Guru Advice for Startups
May 2007
Employee Compensation Styles
May 2007
Global Playing Field
Apr. 2007
Infosys - corporate culture
Mar. 2007
Innovation Culture
Feb. 2007
Human Capital
Feb. 2007
Organzing an Innovative company
Dec. 2006
Pursuit of Innovation
Sept. 2006
Outsourcing Myopia
August 2006
Asymmetric Motivation
July 2006
Global Collaboration
April 2006
People are primary assets
Jan. 2006
The world is flat
Oct. 2005
Performance-based compensation
July 2005
Managing Enterprise with Web Services
June 2005
Practical robots for the home
March 2005
Collaboration is the key
Feb. 2005
Solutions for the China challenge
Feb. 2005
Global manufacturing - China challenge
Jan. 2005
The M2M revolutions
Nov. 2004
Stay agile in an accelerating biz environment
Oct. 2004
Scarcity & Abundance
Oct. 2004
Think outside the box
Sept. 2004
Executive leadership for engineers
Sept. 2004
M2M - The OEM advantage
July 2004
The Art of Engineering Leadership
August 2004
Investing in engineering startups
July 2004
Decision-making across the enterprise
June 2004
Using Global Resources to Succeed
June 2004
Think globally, act locally
Feb. 2004
People are the winning edge
Jan. 2004
Buying & Selling Time
Jan. 2004
Exporting jobs to stay competitive
Dec. 2003
Globalization - outmoded and irrelevant
Oct. 2003
The copyright & patent wars
July 2003
The cheap revolution
June 2003
Distributors in the driver's seat, Manufacturers get disintermediated
March 2003
Pinto perspectives on "angel" investing
Feb. 2003
Competing in a global environment
Jan. 2003
Interview with Jim Pinto
Oct. 2002
Never, never be the lowest bidder
Aug. 2002
Go Global, Think Local
July 2002
Relationship management
June 2002
Never, never be the lowest bidder!
Oct. 2001
Have you paid your daily dues?
Oct. 2001
Staying ahead of the powercurve
Sept. 2001
Scarcity & Abundance - the Inflection Point
Dec. 2000
Product Development Speed in the Internet Age
The Intelligent, Connected Appliance
Marketing Speed in the Internet Age
Sink or Swim the Internet Wave
June 99
Hannover Fair 1999 - Meditations
May '99
If it ain't broke, fix it anyway!
Sep. 91
Raise the Hood and Check the Engine
What is the Discount?

Social & political commentary

The situation in Iraq is getting worse!
June 2004
The Oil Crisis - Energy Alternatives
April 2004
Same-sex marriage - what is the real issue?
April 2004
American Energy Independence
March 2004
Electronic voting brings serious security risks
Jan. 2004
Political parties & labels cause antagonism, confuse Democracy
Dec. 2003
The myths & mystique of war
Sept. 2003
The well curve
August 2003
Sidetracked from the war on terrorism
June 2003
Lessons from the Great Depression
April 2003
Beware the Ides
March 2003
Uneasy Thanksgiving in a precarious world
Nov. 2002
Pathways to insanity
Oct. 2002
Finding a softer approach in a new century
July 2002
Creeping Criminality
May 2002
The lure of the lifestyle
April 2002
Crony Capitalism - electronic conciousness is the antidote
March 2002
Soft Solutions for Hard Problems
Dec. 2001
Charity - where does it begin? And end?
July 2001
View 2001 : Growth in a Shrinking World
Feb. 2001

Technology & Futures

Energy - the Bottomless Well
Mar. 2006
Networks Everywhere
Aug. 2005
Energy - The Bottomless Well
Apr. 2005
Pervasive networks
Dec. 2004
Intelligent Sensor Networks
May 2004
RFID - a significant technology with far-reaching implications
March 2004
Internet Insecurity - Spam and viruses
Feb. 2004
Intelligent, Networked Equipment Optimizes Assets
Nov. 2003
Near-term Nanotech
Nov. 2003
Robotics technology trends
Oct. 2003
Internet insecurity
Sept. 2003
Wireless sensor networks
Sept. 2003
Distributed & Grid Computing
May 2003
The future of air-travel
May 2003
Intelligent robots will be everywhere
March 2003
Nanotech & self-organizing systems - Michael Crichton's PREY
Feb. 2003
Transition to a very different future
Jan. 2003
Pattern's - Stephen Wolfram's "New Kind of Science"
Sept. 2002
Genetic competition - technolgy speeds evolution
Aug. 2002
The 3 Technology Laws
April 2002
21st century prognostications
Jan. 2002
San Diego's role in the new century
Dec. 2001
The three laws of technology
Dec. 2001
Intelligence in a New Age
Aug. 2001
Evolution of the TechnoHuman
July 2001
Evolution of the TechnoHuman
Nov. 2000
Symbiotic Life in the 21st Century
Intelligence & Conciousness in the New Age
Predictions & Possibilities
Jan. 2000
Limbering Up to the New Millennium
The Age of Spiritual Machines - When Computers exceed Human intelligence
Apr. 99

Poetry

Bush Lied
March 2008
Industrial Wireless Quadrille
August 2004
Ballad of GW Bush
August 2004
The Aussie Fieldbus
May 2003
Angel Angles
May 2002
The Perfect Funding
Jan. 2002
Happy birthday ! Now I'm sixty-four!
Dec. 2001
My Christmas eMail
Dec. 1975
Tribute to Jack Grenard
Dec. 2000
The 8-Part Fieldbus Voting Fiasco
The y2k Raven
Jan. 2000
The Legal Mugging of Microsoft
Nov. 99
Microsoft Takes Over Fieldbus
Nov. 98
You are Rich Brother William (Bill Gates & the devil
Feb. 98
Saint Bill (Bill Gates appeals to God)
Apr. 98
The Fieldbus Quadrille
Fieldbus duJour
The Fieldbus Raven
Open Saysa Me - Closed Saysa You
The Famous Fieldbus Fiasco
The Industrial Automation Quadrille
The parody of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"
June 89
Father Big Blue - parody of Lewis Carroll's "Father William"
Feb. 89

Symbols of Love
Feb. 2004
The puzzle of Love
Feb. 2003
Work, play and romance in the new age neighborhood
Feb. 2002
Virtual visiting for the holidays
Nov. 2001
What's happening to Halloween?
Oct. 2001
A.I. - The Movie : Robot Love
Sept. 2001

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