Industry 4.0 / Smart Factory

Industry 4.0 was supposed to be here by now. The gap between the vision and the shop floor reality reveals something important about how manufacturers actually change.

Every machine on your floor is producing data. Most of it disappears. The manufacturers closing the gap are pulling ahead fast.

Digital twins are being sold as a solution to almost every manufacturing problem. A clear-eyed look at where they actually deliver value.

Operational technology was never designed to be connected. Now it is. The security implications are only beginning to surface.