Connected Factory Systems Orbit

Why Connected Factory Systems Need a Unified Namespace

Over the past decade I have walked through scores of factories where sensors, PLCs, and SCADA screens all talk past each other. The equipment works, the lines run, but every time someone tries to pull data from the floor into an analytics dashboard the story gets messy. The promise of smart manufacturing has always been that if you connect enough things you get insight. But what I see instead is a tangle of point-to-point links, duplicated databases, and engineers spending h