The Industrial IoT Blog
IIoT Insights by Henry Costa
Tag: Data Governance
The set of rules and practices that define how data is owned, managed, and used. It ensures data quality, consistency, security, and accountability across systems
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MCP for IIoT. When “Chat With Factory Data” Became Engineering
Read more: MCP for IIoT. When “Chat With Factory Data” Became EngineeringFor a long time, “chat with your factory data” felt like a demo trick. You know the kind. Someone types “What’s my OEE today?” and a bot answers with a nice sentence. It looks impressive. Then someone asks a real…
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HighByte at ProveIt! Conference 2026. Industrial DataOps in Practice
Read more: HighByte at ProveIt! Conference 2026. Industrial DataOps in PracticeI spent time at ProveIt! Conference in Dallas listening to HighByte walk through a full Industrial DataOps demo. Not a slide deck. Not a future-state animation. A real end-to-end story with messy systems, awkward schemas, regulated constraints, and the kind…
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What I Took Away from ProveIt! 2026. A Reset in Expectations
Read more: What I Took Away from ProveIt! 2026. A Reset in ExpectationsI have been to a lot of manufacturing events over the years. Some are useful. Some are basically a sales funnel with better coffee. This one felt different. What I liked most is that the conference actually tried to prove…
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IT/OT Integration. Lessons from Pulp & Paper
Read more: IT/OT Integration. Lessons from Pulp & PaperI started working with industrial data integration in 2005, and one of my first major projects was at a large pulp and paper manufacturing site in Brazil. This was back in 2006-2007. At that time, nobody was calling it “IIoT.”…
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What to Keep in Mind When Designing a New IIoT Strategy
Read more: What to Keep in Mind When Designing a New IIoT StrategyIf there’s one thing I’ve learned from two decades in the trenches of manufacturing IT and IIoT, it’s that a good strategy isn’t about chasing the latest technology or ticking off a checklist. It’s about making real improvements—connecting machines, data,…
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Digital Twins: Bridging the Physical and Digital Worlds
Read more: Digital Twins: Bridging the Physical and Digital WorldsIf you’ve spent any time in a plant or a control room, you know there’s a gap between what’s happening on the floor and what’s visible on the screens in the office. That’s the gap digital twins are meant to…
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Naming Conventions Aren’t Boring—They’re the Backbone of Scalable IIoT
Read more: Naming Conventions Aren’t Boring—They’re the Backbone of Scalable IIoTLet’s get this out there: naming conventions are not glamorous. But in every serious IIoT project I’ve lived through—across oil & gas, pharma, automotive, and beyond—they’re the difference between a system that scales and one that becomes an unmanageable mess.…