The Industrial IoT Blog
IIoT Insights by Henry Costa
Tag: Manufacturing
The process of producing goods by transforming raw materials into finished products. It combines people, machines, and systems to deliver quality, efficiency, and scale.
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Ignition 8.3: Leveling Up Industrial IoT
Read more: Ignition 8.3: Leveling Up Industrial IoTHere’s what really stands out to me: Ignition 8.3 isn’t just a “point release.” It’s a shift in how we think about deploying and managing automation software. The core lesson? If you want to run at enterprise scale — multiple…
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OPC UA: The Bridge to Smarter Plants
Read more: OPC UA: The Bridge to Smarter PlantsI still remember the first time I tried to connect a brand-new packaging line to our old MES, back in the late 2000s. It was like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole: the PLC spoke one…
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From Web Pages to the Shop Floor: My Jump Into Manufacturing
Read more: From Web Pages to the Shop Floor: My Jump Into ManufacturingI still remember the first time I walked into a real factory, not just as a visitor, but as someone expected to connect those noisy machines to SAP. I came from years of web development — building e-commerce and government…