Industry 4.0

How to validate an opc ua to mqtt bridge reduces downtime on mixed‑vendor lines without changing plcs

Aug 15, 2026 | by Élodie Moreau

When a plant I worked with wanted to add cloud analytics and a lightweight fleet management layer to a mixed-vendor production line, they faced a familiar constraint: no one wanted to touch the...

how to orchestrate synchronous lot tracing across three erps using mqtt and a lightweight event bus without heavy middleware

Apr 21, 2026 | by Élodie Moreau

I recently faced a challenge that sits at the intersection of manufacturing traceability and pragmatic system architecture: keep lot-level traceability synchronous across three different ERP systems,...

How to deploy a vendor‑agnostic edge layer that keeps legacy plcs online while adding ai

Mar 01, 2026 | by Élodie Moreau

I often get asked how to add modern AI capabilities to a brownfield plant without ripping out the PLCs that keep production running. In practice, the most practical and least risky path is to...