Schneider North

When I first started working with industrial data systems, the biggest headache wasn't the machines themselves. It was the way they talked to each other. Every sensor, every PLC, every SCADA terminal seemed to speak its own dialect. You'd walk into a control room and see six screens showing different numbers for the same production line. That kind of fragmentation costs time and money. It also makes real-time decisions nearly impossible. Over the past decade, I've watched t