Honeywell has spent the last two years pulling acquired software and its legacy MOM/APM stack under the Honeywell Forge banner. Here’s a practical checklist for finding out whether that’s a real unified platform or a shared UI over separate products.
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Most MES rollouts don’t fail because of bad logic or bad software — they fail because nobody ran a disciplined workshop to define the equipment hierarchy, material master, and routing structure before configuration started. Here’s how to do that workshop properly.
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Segmentation-first OT guidance is turning up in insurance renewals and customer questionnaires, but the standard’s zone-and-conduit model breaks down fast when applied by device type. Here’s how to draw it by consequence instead, and defend it to an auditor without a full re-architecture.
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Generative “world model” simulation is being layered onto traditional digital twins, promising synthetic plant scenarios instead of just live-data mirrors. Here’s what’s usable today, what’s demo-reel vapor, and how to tell if your plant even has the data to try.
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The OPC UA Robotics Companion Spec finally gives plants a common data model for robot state, motion, and safety status — but it doesn’t replace vendor-specific programming, and adopting it early is a real tradeoff, not a free win.
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