As Ignition-as-historian, UNS, and edge computing reshape the stack, the old SCADA/MES/Historian boundaries feel blurry — here’s a durable framework for deciding what belongs where.
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IEC 62443-3-3 has quietly moved from an audit reference to a line item vendors must answer in RFPs. Here’s how to read the SL/SR framework and write procurement language that actually separates real conformance from datasheet name-dropping.
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Wi-Fi 6 was built for one demanding workload at a time, and plants are now running two — mixed-vendor AMR fleets and real-time vision inference — on the same floor. Here’s a practical framework for deciding whether private 5G actually earns its keep.
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Robot vendors and PLC platforms are shipping real OPC UA Robotics Companion Spec support now, not demoware. Here’s what that changes in how you commission a cell, and where the old fieldbus habits still apply.
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When a cobot keeps running through lunch and the humans on the same line clock out, the textbook OEE formula quietly stops telling the truth. Here’s the math that fixes it.
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