The Industrial IoT Blog
IIoT Insights by Henry Costa
Tag: Manufacturing Analytics
Use of data from machines, systems, and operations to understand manufacturing performance. Supports visibility, root cause analysis, and decision-making across plants.
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The Trust Gap in Industrial AI
Read more: The Trust Gap in Industrial AIImagine this situation. A team spends months building an AI use case. The model looks strong in workshops and dashboards. The recommendation goes live on the plant floor. Then operators ignore it. Not because they are against technology. Not because…
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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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Data Context in IIoT. Why Raw Numbers Aren’t Enough for Smarter Manufacturing
Read more: Data Context in IIoT. Why Raw Numbers Aren’t Enough for Smarter ManufacturingI’ve spent years deep in large IIoT programs. We’re talking about hundreds of thousands of tags streaming from shop floors to cloud platforms across very different industries: automotive, pharma, high volume, and highly regulated. And there’s one lesson that keeps…
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From Shop Floor to Cloud: How Manufacturing Data Moves
Read more: From Shop Floor to Cloud: How Manufacturing Data MovesI’ve spent years watching data travel from shop floors to dashboards. And honestly, most people skip over the messy middle parts. On paper, the sensor-to-dashboard chain looks clean and simple. In real manufacturing environments, it rarely is. If you’ve ever…
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When Celonis Meets IIoT: Real-Time Process Mining on the Shop Floor
Read more: When Celonis Meets IIoT: Real-Time Process Mining on the Shop FloorI’ve been thinking about something lately. We spend a lot of time connecting machines and collecting data from the shop floor — tags, sensors, OPC UA servers, the whole IIoT stack. And then there’s this other world called process mining,…