by Humberto De Santiago | Aug 13, 2026 | Blog
You’ve got budget approved for an edge AI pilot. A vendor is promising real-time predictive maintenance or quality control right at the machine. No cloud round-trip required. Before you sign anything, it’s worth asking what actually changed in 2026 to make...
by Humberto De Santiago | Aug 10, 2026 | Blog
Schneider Electric just agreed to pay $3.1 billion, in cash, for Cognite — a company most manufacturers had never heard of a month ago. The deal, announced June 30, 2026, is still pending regulatory approval. But the price tag alone says something worth sitting with:...
by Humberto De Santiago | Jul 23, 2026 | Blog
A board meeting. A slide shows “94% operational efficiency” rolled up across the network. Someone asks how the number is calculated. Nobody in the room can answer with confidence. That’s not a dashboard problem. It’s what operational reporting...
by Humberto De Santiago | Jul 20, 2026 | Blog
A line goes slow, a batch fails QC, output drops for no obvious reason — and someone points an AI tool at the operations data and asks it why. Increasingly, that’s the first move: teams are adopting or piloting AI troubleshooting tools precisely because manual...
by Humberto De Santiago | Jul 6, 2026 | Blog
Most operations teams don’t have a shortage of data — they have a shortage of usable data. Sensors are logging vibration, location, and temperature every second, cameras are capturing footage nobody reviews, and machines are throwing off status codes...
