Gartner’s MES Magic Quadrant is due for its next refresh, and plant teams are already citing the last one in 2027 budget cases. Here’s how to read the next report — and the Critical Capabilities data behind it — without mistaking narrative for substance.
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CISA’s push on OT asset visibility and looming CIRCIA reporting rules are turning asset inventory into a compliance requirement, not a someday project — and passive discovery tools alone won’t get you there.
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As metal AM production scales in regulated industries, most MES deployments still treat the printer as a black-box work center. Here’s a practical framework for deciding what build data belongs in MES versus PLM, and who owns the handoff.
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Now that Universal Robots, Fanuc, Doosan, and Techman all ship native OPC UA servers and PLCopen-style function blocks, the old default of hard-wired I/O is no longer the only sane choice. Here’s how to actually decide.
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