The Industrial IoT Blog
IIoT Insights by Henry Costa
Tag: Manufacturing Integration
The coordination of systems and data across shop floor, control, and enterprise layers. It ensures smooth data flow between machines, MES, and business systems.
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Before IIoT Had a Name: Lessons from a Sugar Mill in Brazil
Read more: Before IIoT Had a Name: Lessons from a Sugar Mill in BrazilBack in 2008, I got the chance to work on something completely different from what I had done before. A large sugar and ethanol plant in Brazil. Not automotive. Not steel. Not pharma. This was sugar cane coming in straight…
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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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Retiring SAP MII: Closing a Chapter and Opening the Next One
Read more: Retiring SAP MII: Closing a Chapter and Opening the Next OneAfter spending almost twenty years working with SAP MII (before that, xMII), it feels strange to say goodbye. It was part of daily life for many of us. It solved tough problems, frustrated teams, and more than once saved a…
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The Project That Won Two Awards and Nearly Broke My Team
Read more: The Project That Won Two Awards and Nearly Broke My TeamIf you’ve ever been part of a major digital transformation in manufacturing, you know the feeling: the thrill of building something big, and the stress when the wheels start to come off. This is the story of the SAP MII…
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Getting Started with SAP xMII: My Journey from Web to Factory Floor
Read more: Getting Started with SAP xMII: My Journey from Web to Factory FloorI still remember the first time I walked into a real factory as an IT guy. It was 2005, and up until then, my world was all about web development — PHP, JavaScript, databases, and the usual chaos of internet…