[Booklet] Manufacturing at the Crossroads 2025: Real-World Lessons from Industrial Leaders
What does it take to make digital transformation stick—beyond pilots, platforms, and buzzwords? At Hannover Messe 2025, the conversation around industrial transformation reached a new level of clarity—and urgency. From AI and agentic automation to modular MES platforms and resilient supply
How Data is Rebuilding Manufacturing from the Edge Up
An industry conversation with Pugal Janakiraman, Global Manufacturing CTO at Snowflake, and Evan Kaplan, CEO of InfluxData. Manufacturing's Data Mindset Is Changing Manufacturers have long relied on data to understand what went wrong—after the fact. When a production line stalled, or equipment
What’s Changing in Industrial Data Management: Key Takeaways from Hannover Messe 2025
At Hannover Messe 2025, InfluxData CEO Evan Kaplan and HighByte CPO John Harrington discuss how manufacturers are shifting from data collection to data intelligence and what’s required to support that transformation. Below are the most important insights that emerged from
The Role of Predictive Maintenance in Achieving World-Class OEE with IIoT
OEE (overall equipment effectiveness) is a productivity and performance metric that helps find new inefficiencies and unlock the full potential of manufacturing. OEE helps manufacturers understand how well a machine, a manufacturing process, or a line is running, as well
[New booklet] How IIoT and AI Are Driving Smarter Operational Investments
In today’s rapidly evolving industrial landscape, staying competitive means being smart with your operations — and smarter with your investments. Leading organizations are turning to the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to optimize processes, cut costs, and boost ROI. This new
The Business Case for IIoT in Manufacturing: Proving ROI with Real-Time Data
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is transforming modern manufacturing by enabling connected, data-driven processes that improve efficiency, reduce downtime, and enhance decision-making. Manufacturers increasingly rely on IIoT to optimize production, but proving its return on investment (ROI) remains a
Are data historians holding us back?
The role of the data historian has changed a lot since the 1980s, and it’s time to rethink how it serves us. Industry 4.0 demands better integration between OT and IT systems, allowing teams to centralize data and extract real-time
From Reactive to Predictive: How IIoT Is Transforming Maintenance Strategies
Industrial maintenance…a headache? Yes. Thief of time? Absolutely. Reputation killer? It has its moments! These are the results of relying on a reactive approach to industrial maintenance. Reacting when equipment failures occur repeatedly without warning leads to operational downtime, production
AI and ML in Manufacturing: Turning Data into Actionable Insights
Since the Industrial Revolution, the manufacturing sector has generated vast amounts of data—too much for humans to process manually. So, industries like automotive, electronics, textiles, and pharmaceuticals are now leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to transform raw