Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence Echo

The data problem nobody wants to talk about Walk onto any factory floor that has been running for more than a decade and you will see the same thing: machines that speak different languages. A PLC from the 1990s talks Modbus. A newer robot communicates over OPC UA. A temperature sensor sends readings via MQTT to an edge gateway. And somewhere in the IT office, someone is trying to pull all that into a data lake for analytics. The result is a mess of point-to-point integrati