Summer shutdown gives you one real shot per year at a clean MES cutover — here’s the pre-freeze plan, parallel-run checks, and rollback checkpoints to make it stick.
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Every major automation vendor now ships an edge platform, and plant IT teams are being asked to specify one in RFPs with no shared vocabulary for comparison. Here’s a working checklist, applied to four real platforms, to get you to a pilot instead of a slide deck.
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Every MES vendor is shipping an AI copilot in 2026, but a copilot’s answers are only as trustworthy as the structured, contextualized data behind them. Here’s how to audit your MES data model — and test the copilot — before you trust it near a quality disposition.
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