Physical AI systems that interpret sensor telemetry, predict equipment behavior, and trigger automated responses require two data capabilities that traditional historians were not designed to provide: high-resolution historical datasets for model training and continuous real-time telemetry…
Historian renewal notices show up as a procurement line item, usually larger than the previous year, and most teams sign and move on. Ryan Nelson, Director of Product Marketing at InfluxData, explains that the renewal moment…
Most manufacturers know they need to start with AI. The common advice, "start small" with a use case, prove value, and scale, is incomplete on its own. Starting small without first thinking big leads to a…
Manufacturing competition used to center on the mechanical speed of production lines and the efficiency of output. The advantage now belongs to organizations that react to data faster, catching a quality drift, a mechanical failure signal,…
In manufacturing, the window between a small deviation and a costly event can be measured in seconds. A vibration pattern shifts, a batch parameter drifts, a temperature moves outside its normal band. The data exists, but…
ABB resolves 80% of measurement device faults through an AI copilot, without a support call. HighByte compressed Alcon's one-year plant-wide digital transformation to less than one month. InfluxData and Litmus take manufacturers from three sites to…
Factories generate massive volumes of time series data from every sensor, controller, and production line, but many manufacturers reduce the fidelity of that data or discard it entirely because their existing infrastructure makes retention too expensive…
A temperature reading with a timestamp does not tell you whether it is Fahrenheit or centigrade, which factory generated it, which production line, or which asset. Without that context, the data cannot drive a decision. At…
There is an unspoken rule in manufacturing technology that overrides every software license, every boardroom mandate, and every digital transformation roadmap. It is the OT Veto. This isn’t a failure of leadership or vision. It is…
The data challenge facing energy operations today Power grids, renewable energy sites, battery storage facilities, substations, and smart meter networks generate millions of time-stamped data points every second. This telemetry from sensors, SCADA systems, and field…
For manufacturing leadership, every capital request comes with a projection: a return on investment, a payback period, a net present value. These metrics are designed to filter good bets from bad. But there is a new,…
The graveyard of smart manufacturing projects is filled with perfect, scalable, future-proof monoliths. They are elegant technical cathedrals, engineered on whiteboards to last a decade. The problem is, the ground beneath a manufacturing operation is not…