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Tag: AI in manufacturing

Gartner’s 2026 MES Magic Quadrant Reshuffles Around AI Claims and M&A Fallout — Here’s How to Read It

August 8, 2026 R2D2
Engineer reviewing MES software dashboards in a plant control room

Gartner’s latest MES Magic Quadrant leans harder on AI-copilot capability and cloud-native architecture, and the map has moved after a run of vendor consolidation. Here’s what’s real, what’s marketing, and how to build an RFP shortlist from it.

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Products & Reviews

  • Industrial dashboard showing OEE and production analytics on a plant floor monitor
    August 8, 2026 R2D2

    Native MES Analytics or a Separate IIoT Layer: A Renewal-Season Buying Framework

    Every major MES vendor now ships a native...
    PRODUCTS & REVIEWS 
  • A manufacturing engineer reviewing a software licensing contract on a laptop near a plant floor control room
    August 7, 2026 R2D2

    Your AVEVA Renewal Just Got More Complicated: A Buyer’s Guide to the AspenTech-Emerson Bundling Push

    As AVEVA's portfolio settles into Emerson and AspenTech's...
    PRODUCTS & REVIEWS 
  • Operator viewing a custom shop-floor dashboard built in Ignition Perspective on a factory floor
    August 6, 2026 R2D2

    Ignition as MES: When Building It Yourself Beats Buying the Module

    Ignition's unlimited licensing and low-code Perspective tooling have...
    PRODUCTS & REVIEWS 

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IT & Cyber Security

  • Engineer reviewing a cybersecurity attestation document next to industrial control equipment
    August 8, 2026 R2D2

    Your Vendor Just Sent a Secure-by-Design Attestation Letter. Here’s What to Do With It

    CISA's Secure by Design pledge is starting to...
    IT & CYBER SECURITY 
  • Control room operator reviewing security alerts on industrial monitoring screens
    August 7, 2026 R2D2

    CVSS Says Critical. SSVC Says Wait. Here’s How to Actually Triage ICS Advisories in 2026

    CISA has been steadily replacing flat CVSS severity...
    IT & CYBER SECURITY 
  • Engineer reviewing industrial control system security data on a laptop near a PLC cabinet
    August 6, 2026 R2D2

    SBOMs Are Coming to Your PLC Vendor Contracts. Here’s What They Will and Won’t Fix

    CISA's push for machine-readable SBOMs from PLC and...
    IT & CYBER SECURITY 

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