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John Harrington

John Harrington

Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at HighByte

John Harrington is the Chief Product Officer of HighByte, focused on defining the company’s business and product strategy. His areas of responsibility include product management, customer success, partner success, and go-to-market strategy. John is passionate about delivering technology that improves productivity and safety in manufacturing and industrial environments. John received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a Master of Business Administration from Babson College.

How DataOps Powers Predictive Asset Maintenance

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has been a game changer for operational maintenance. Real-time, sensor-fed condition monitoring allows manufacturers to shift their asset health strategy from a reactive to proactive approach, so they can prevent…

UNS 101: Understanding the Unified Namespace

The Unified Namespace (UNS) is a design pattern that standardizes and organizes all industrial data into one central, event-driven architecture. Instead of connecting SCADA, ERP, CMMS, and quality databases through fragile point-to-point integrations, UNS consolidates OT…

Abstraction puts the ‘unified’ in Unified Namespace

The Unified Namespace (UNS) architecture pattern has proven to be an effective means to opening industrial data access up to the entire business, but the road to implementation is not without a few speed bumps. First,…

The power of payloads in your unified namespace

The Unified Namespace (UNS) is among the fastest-growing data architecture patterns for Industry 4.0, promising easy publish-subscribe access to hierarchically structured industrial data. The UNS is often defined as a consolidated, abstracted structure by which all…

Do you have a data noise problem?

Have you ever watched a press conference when a room full of reporters bark questions at the same time? Typically, the media event host will call on a particular reporter to repeat the question and then…

DataOps: The Missing Link in Your Industrial Data Architecture

DataOps is a new category of software solutions that address the data architecture needs of industrial companies as they adopt Industry 4.0, Digital Transformation, and Smart Manufacturing. DataOps solutions perform data contextualization and standardization and provide…

DataOps for Manufacturing: A 4-Stage Maturity Model

At IIoT World, we track how industrial organizations move from fragmented data collection to AI-ready operations — and DataOps is consistently the discipline that separates manufacturers who scale AI from those who stall. This four-stage maturity…

How Industrial DataOps is Shaping Industry 4.0

Industry 4.0 adopters in factories around the world recognize that industrial data is gold. More users and systems want access to this data in real time to convert it into valuable information they can act on…