by Humberto De Santiago | Aug 24, 2026 | Blog
AI models only see what’s digitized. Most operations floors aren’t. Equipment runs without a sensor attached, materials move without anyone logging where, and by the time a report reaches a decision-maker, it describes a shift that ended hours ago....
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 | Aug 3, 2026 | Blog
Most Azure customers aren’t short on AI and analytics horsepower. Power BI, Azure IoT Hub, Azure AI — the tooling is there. What’s usually missing is the thing feeding it: real operational data from the physical floor, in a structured form those tools can...
by Humberto De Santiago | Jul 30, 2026 | Blog
Every defense program office has had some version of this conversation: “We’d love to use AI here, but we’re classified.” It sounds like a policy problem. It isn’t. The real blocker is that nobody has been able to capture structured...
