Expired or misconfigured OPC UA certificates are becoming the top self-inflicted cause of connectivity outages as plants push UA past pilot projects. Here’s how to set up trust chains, monitoring, and a renewal calendar so it doesn’t happen to you.
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AVEVA is folding MES into its CONNECT cloud subscription alongside historian and analytics. For mid-size multi-site manufacturers, that’s less a product question than an architecture bet — here’s how to evaluate it.
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eQMS vendors are shipping AI-driven SPC and predictive quality features that overlap directly with MES quality modules. Here’s a framework for deciding where control-plan enforcement should actually execute — and how to avoid two systems claiming to be the system of record.
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Gartner’s latest MES Magic Quadrant and Critical Capabilities refresh leans hard into AI-native features and composability. Here’s what actually shifted, and how to turn quadrant position into defensible RFP weighting instead of a vendor scoreboard.
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