Industrial Data Unification Echo

Why industrial data unification matters for smart manufacturing

The data mess in manufacturing Walk onto any shop floor that has been running for more than a few years and you will see the same pattern: one machine talks Modbus, another speaks OPC UA, a third pumps metrics over MQTT. The PLCs sit in their own corner, the SCADA system lives on a separate network, and the ERP system only gets a nightly batch file if someone remembers to press the button. This is the reality of industrial IoT today - a tangle of protocols, vendors, and vi