Industrial environments have been built one use case at a time, leaving most large manufacturers with fragmented IT and OT infrastructure. A manufacturer with 10 sites might run four different home-grown MES platforms, three different ERPs, and entirely custom data connections between them. As organizations deploy artificial intelligence, that absence of standardized data architecture has […]
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Proprietary data silos remain one of the largest barriers to scaling industrial process optimization across multi-vendor factory environments. Open data standards such as OPC UA, MQTT, and Sparkplug B offer a path forward by establishing common data models and communication protocols that allow equipment from different manufacturers to share information seamlessly. In this article, IIoT […]
Read more →IIoT and Industry 4.0 are omnipresent topics in today’s industry tradeshows and blog posts. A lot of products promise to help you achieve vertical integration of production flow and data and enterprise software like ERP. But usually, there’s also a catch: either you get very complex products with a similarly shocking price tag – or […]
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