2025

From Snapshots to Predictive Maintenance: The Time Series Maturity Journey
· Predictive Maintenance

From Snapshots to Predictive Maintenance: The Time Series Maturity Journey

In most plants, data visibility has improved dramatically. Modern time series databases connect seamlessly with SCADA systems, historians, and operational dashboards, giving teams real-time insight into production. This foundational layer—basic monitoring—has become table stakes in manufacturing.But visibility alone isn’t enough. According to a study by Aberdeen Research, unplanned downtime in manufacturing can cost up to […]

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Secure-by-Design Manufacturing: Why Compliance Is the Next Competitive Edge
· Cybersecurity

Secure-by-Design Manufacturing: Why Compliance Is the Next Competitive Edge

The EU Cyber Resilience Act, active since December 2024 with full obligations from December 2027, requires manufacturers to integrate security into product design or face fines up to €15 million and EU market exclusion. NIS2 adds supply-chain mandates with fines up to €10 million. Compliance is now a condition of market access, not an optional […]

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Feedstocks, Funding, and the Future: What’s Holding Back Industrial Decarbonization
· Renewable Energy

Feedstocks, Funding, and the Future: What’s Holding Back Industrial Decarbonization

Industrial decarbonization in refineries, chemical plants, and cement kilns stalls primarily because of one missing measurement: product-level carbon intensity. Without a consistent, auditable way to calculate CO2-equivalent per unit of output, even advanced facilities cannot verify how sustainable their products are, according to insights shared by Lewis Sweet, Senior Director at Honeywell International.This missing measurement […]

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A small valve, a big save: what predictive maintenance catches that SOPs miss
· Predictive Maintenance

A small valve, a big save: what predictive maintenance catches that SOPs miss

Predictive monitoring catches failure modes that standard operating procedures and interlocks cannot: specifically, manual misconfigurations such as a valve left closed after maintenance. On a critical gear pump, IoT sensors detected rising bearing temperature and abnormal vibration within hours of startup, alerting the maintenance team before any mechanical damage occurred.The Gear Pump IncidentA manual valve […]

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Your Million-Dollar IIoT Strategy is Being Sabotaged by Hundred-Dollar Radios
· Connected Industry

Your Million-Dollar IIoT Strategy is Being Sabotaged by Hundred-Dollar Radios

According to Relay research, 36.8% of frontline industrial teams experience a communication device failure every single day. This daily failure rate creates a direct financial threat to IIoT investments: a 2024 Splunk report found the average annual cost of manufacturing downtime has reached $255 million, with $58 million coming from lost revenues alone.Yet, a fundamental […]

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By 2028, Plants Won’t Just Run Themselves—They’ll Tell You Why
· Hybrid Manufacturing

By 2028, Plants Won’t Just Run Themselves—They’ll Tell You Why

By 2028, AI-driven industrial plants will not only run autonomously, they will explain their decisions in real time. At the Honeywell User Group in The Hague, Honeywell Chief Product Officer Claudia Chandra and Adlib CEO Chris Huff described this shift as a move from data entry to data fluency, where operators ask questions in natural […]

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The AI Scaling Problem Nobody’s Solving: Why 140 Applications Delivered Zero Scale
· Artificial Intelligence

The AI Scaling Problem Nobody’s Solving: Why 140 Applications Delivered Zero Scale

An upstream oil company in Asia built 140 AI applications across 11 offshore assets. Every application was critical to operations. None of them scaled beyond the site where it was built. Jason Schern, Field CTO at Cognite, identifies fragmented data architecture as the root cause blocking industrial AI from delivering measurable business value.Why Does Industrial […]

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When Yield Becomes Sustainability — Redefining Efficiency in Semiconductor Manufacturing
· Discrete Manufacturing

When Yield Becomes Sustainability — Redefining Efficiency in Semiconductor Manufacturing

In semiconductor manufacturing, every scrapped wafer wastes electricity, water, and chemicals. Siemens’ Brian Taylor states that sustainability “is not a separate track” from yield and throughput. The most efficient fab is, by this measure, the most sustainable one: fewer defects mean less energy burned and less waste produced.As Brian Taylor of Siemens put it, sustainability […]

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Standardize Before You Scale: A CFO/COO Playbook for Best-of-Breed Without the Bloat
· Hybrid Manufacturing

Standardize Before You Scale: A CFO/COO Playbook for Best-of-Breed Without the Bloat

The fastest way to scale agentic AI across multi-site manufacturing is not rip-and-replace. According to Infinite Uptime and Cybus at the AI Frontiers 2025 event, the correct sequence is: standardize signals at the sensing layer, require interoperability in procurement, then let AI agents work across the tools you already own.How Do You Reduce AI Integration […]

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The Next Manufacturing Advantage: From Products to Intelligent, Connected Services
· Hybrid Manufacturing

The Next Manufacturing Advantage: From Products to Intelligent, Connected Services

Servitization, the shift from selling equipment to delivering ongoing outcomes, is redefining manufacturing competition. Service contracts can deliver margins of 25% or more, compared to roughly 10% on new equipment sales. According to McKinsey, OEMs with strong service offerings achieve total shareholder return twice that of their peers.Why Is Manufacturing Changing Now?Manufacturing is changing because […]

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Beyond Dashboards: Manufacturers Want Predictive Data, Not Pretty Graphs
· Process Manufacturing

Beyond Dashboards: Manufacturers Want Predictive Data, Not Pretty Graphs

Manufacturers today face a critical gap: factories are full of dashboards showing vibration graphs, torque curves, and temperature plots, yet critical equipment still fails unexpectedly. Experts from InfluxData, CGI, Bosch, and Trask identify the fix: moving from reactive alarms to predictive signals built on industrial-grade time-series database infrastructure.That gap between visualizing and acting on data was the central theme […]

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