Industry 4.0 Archives - Factorian

Edge ComputingIndustry 4.022 Dec 2024
Why Industry 4.0 Needs Cloud-Native Edge & Event Data
As more automation drives processes and continuous manufacturing replaces traditional manual batch manufacturing, access to real-time streaming data will become critical to pharmaceutical, biologics and speciality fine chemical manufacturing operations. A basic data landscape for operations and activities that currently...
Data HistorianIndustry 4.012 Sep 2024
Why Modern Factories Need an Open & Scalable Historian
If you are managing a pharmaceutical, chemical or any process manufacturing operations and wanted to collect data from your process machines and operations, chances are you are either dependent on vendor of the process machine to access your data, its...
FDAIndustry 4.018 Jan 2024
Software-Defined Manufacturing: Future of Smart Factories
Traditional enterprise information technology software tools and solutions have found it hard to make inroads into the manufacturing and industrial automation world on the manufacturing shop floor. This can be attributed as the main root cause of IT (Information Technology) and...
ConnectivityIndustry 4.015 Jul 2023
Stress-Free Machine Data Access for Smart Factories
Streaming data access from industrial machines has traditionally always been a very tedious and stressful affair that not only involves tons of components to manage but also involves complex coordination with instrumentation or automation engineers, networking engineers and site or...
Industry 4.022 Nov 2022
Sensor-to-Sense: Simplifying the Machine Data Journey
Following up on our earlier article titled “Edgy Cloud: Best of both worlds for batch manufacturing informatics” where we presented a high-level overview how computing is evolving and why computing on-premise at the edge make sense for many manufacturing domains,...
Edge ComputingIndustry 4.001 Nov 2022
Edgy Cloud: Best of Cloud & Edge for Batch Manufacturing
Life is driven by rhythms. Everything in this world seems to be cyclic/periodic in nature. In doing so each cycle comes with its own past learnings and improvements and vastly changes us and our lives for better. All of us...