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(Photo caption: VinFast’s flagship manufacturing complex in Hai Phong, Vietnam spans 828 acres and achieves up to 90% automation with more than 1,200 smart robots.) As the Timmaron Group team continues its Asia tour and in-country meetings, here’s another report from Barb Stinnett, our CEO: We find ourselves today in Vietnam meeting with the Vin […]

For the second stop of Timmaron’s annual Asia tour, the team moved on to Taiwan. This island is smaller than Minnesota, but has 25 million people versus our 5 million. The country’s capital, Taipei, is the center of this region’s technology industry. It is often called “the Silicon Valley of Asia,” as the majority of […]

The Timmaron leadership team is currently doing a regional tour of Asia, including meeting with key partners in South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Singapore, and India. Timmaron CEO Barb Stinnett provided this Day One report: Our first stop was Seoul. As part of Timmaron Group’s Asia Strategic Mission, we were fortunate to meet with Hyoung-Rock Kim, […]

(Based in part on a recent AWS post, entitled “Physical AI trades lab coat for a hard hat.”) As AWS notes, the “latest physical AI systems perceive their surroundings, adapt to changing conditions, and make autonomous decisions in the messy, unpredictable real world. Unlike the traditional assembly-line robot executing the same welding arc a thousand […]

The conversation around America’s power grid has fundamentally shifted. For more than a decade, U.S. electricity consumption remained remarkably flat, kept in check by steady gains in energy efficiency and such things as LED lighting adoption and distributed solar power. However, the explosive rise of generative artificial intelligence and high-density cloud computing has triggered a […]

For decades, the popular image of factory robotics was a line of orange robot arms welding car bodies in an automotive plant. That picture is still accurate, but it is no longer complete. The next phase of U.S. manufacturing automation is broader, smarter, and more strategic. Robots are still welding, lifting, painting, machining, and assembling. […]

Industry leaders disagree on whether the first orbitalcomputing platforms arrive in 2027 – or years later. The AI boom has clearly elevated the demand for data centers. As we’ve written previously, the issues around terrestrial data centers have pushed the discussion toward space — as in earth-orbiting data centers. Many tech experts, not the least […]

In a recent article published in American Hospital & Healthcare Management, our CEO and founder, Barbara Stinnett, argues that the crisis facing rural hospitals in the United States has reached a critical stage, with more than 700 rural hospitals – roughly one-third of the nation’s total – at risk of closure due to severe financial […]

At Timmaron Group, we’ve been providing AI expertise to our clients for many years. So, we obviously follow and attend major industry events. What is being called “the world’s largest data, analytics and AI conference” is taking place June 15-18, 2026, in San Francisco. Sponsored by Databricks, it’s called the Data + AI Summit. As […]