The Industrial IoT Blog
IIoT Insights by Henry Costa
Tag: UNS
A Unified Namespace that provides a single, structured view of industrial data in real time. It creates a common data model that simplifies integration and supports scalable architectures.
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AI Meets UNS: Practical LLM Uses on Industrial Data
Read more: AI Meets UNS: Practical LLM Uses on Industrial DataA few years ago, if you told me we’d be using large language models on top of plant data, I would’ve said: “Cool demo. Not sure it survives contact with a real site.” Now I’m more convinced. Not because LLMs…
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Industrial AI Explained. Why Data Is the Real Starting Point
Read more: Industrial AI Explained. Why Data Is the Real Starting PointThere’s a lot of noise around AI in manufacturing right now. Every vendor deck, every conference keynote, every LinkedIn post seems to promise that AI will transform your plant. And honestly, most of the time, I just smile and scroll…
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AI-Ready Data. How UNS and Sparkplug B Set You Up for Manufacturing AI
Read more: AI-Ready Data. How UNS and Sparkplug B Set You Up for Manufacturing AII’ve noticed something funny about “manufacturing AI.” The AI part gets all the attention. The real success or failure usually happens much earlier, in the boring part. How you name data. Where you publish it. Whether anyone can trust it.…
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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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My Expectations for the ProveIt! Conference 2026
Read more: My Expectations for the ProveIt! Conference 2026I’m heading to ProveIt! Conference in two weeks. February 16–20 in Dallas. It’s practically in my backyard. No flights. No hotels. Just me, my car, and five days of IIoT demos, vendor sessions, and hopefully some useful conversations with people…
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Unified Namespace (UNS) as the Architectural Foundation for IIoT
Read more: Unified Namespace (UNS) as the Architectural Foundation for IIoTIf you want to talk about making factories smarter and more connected, you have to talk about Unified Namespace. I’ve been working with industrial data for more than 20 years, and I’ve seen many architectural patterns come and go in…
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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,…
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When Ignition 8.3 Broke the Ice
Read more: When Ignition 8.3 Broke the IceWhen I walked into the Ignition Community Conference this year, I could feel the buzz, and not just from the coffee. Everyone was talking about the new 8.3 release, and honestly, I was just as curious as anyone. After all…