Scot Morrison

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Scot Morrison is the general manager of the general embedded business unit, Mentor Embedded Systems Division, a Siemens business. Morrison oversees the Linux, Nucleus, and Mentor Embedded Hypervisor runtime product lines, as well as associated tools, middleware, and professional services. Prior to joining Mentor in 2012, Morrison served as general manager and senior vice president of products at Wind River Systems. Before that he worked at Integrated Systems Inc., where he last served as vice president and general manager of the design automation solutions business unit in 1999, responsible for MATRIXx, and the pOSEK embedded operating system. Morrison earned his Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Engineering from the University of Toronto, as well as his MS degree in Aerospace Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specializing in control systems.

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Addressing The Productivity Gaps In IIoT

By Scot Morrison - 05 Apr, 2018 - Comments: 0

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) can be enabled by many different topologies and permutations of underlying infrastructure, but the one constant is that it brings new levels of profitability, efficiency, and productivity to businesses and industries near and far. The IIoT is enabled by connectivity from device to device, and device to and from the cloud. However, it’s not only abou... » read more

A New Approach To A Fragmented Industrial IoT

By Scot Morrison - 01 Mar, 2018 - Comments: 0

By now, we’ve all seen or experienced the transformational change the Internet of Things (IoT) has had in our daily lives. The emerging area of industrial automation, often referred to as the Industry Internet of Things (IIoT) or Industrie 4.0, has also quickly transformed itself. Suddenly within IIoT we have thousands, even millions of devices, connected to the seemingly infinite potential o... » read more