The Industrial IoT Blog
IIoT Insights by Henry Costa
Tag: MCP
Model Context Protocol is a standard for sharing context, state, and tools with AI models. It enables consistent behavior, traceability, and safer integration into applications.
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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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Ignition at ProveIt! Conference 2026. What Actually Scales
Read more: Ignition at ProveIt! Conference 2026. What Actually ScalesI watched an Ignition 8.3 presentation at the ProveIt! Conference in Dallas, and it was one of the cleaner “this is how you scale IIoT” demos I have seen in a while. Not because it had flashy dashboards. Not because…
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Model Context Protocol (MCP) Explained: Making IIoT Smarter
Read more: Model Context Protocol (MCP) Explained: Making IIoT SmarterIf you work in industrial automation or manufacturing, you know the pain of getting data from machines, sensors, and systems into the hands of people and AI tools that can actually use it. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a…