Once you have machine monitoring, MES, and scheduling on a common plant data model, how can you improve the ability to automate and execute the work? MachineMetrics is doing that by adding Max AI. While the company started in machine performance monitoring, this year it has expanded to focus on plant performance and frontline worker…
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TwinThread Adds Advisor, Centerline Solution
Once you have a digital twin of a plant that includes predictive and prescriptive AI capabilities, how could you improve it? TwinThread is doing that by adding genAI and agentic AI in Advisor to help accelerate model interpretation, as well as a new solution aptly named Perfect Centerline to help manage and stabilize the…
Siemens Opcenter’s TCO and Scalability Help Fuel Digital Thread
What if MES were fully natively integrated into an end-to-end suite across the product and production lifecycle? For years, industry analysts have remarked that Siemens had acquired all the pieces—if only they could put them together. We recently had a briefing that focused on the MES, Opcenter, and the progress made toward the end-to-end goal:…
DELMIAWorks Mid-market ERP with Built-In MES Growing Globally
Can mid-market discrete and batch process manufacturers meet their MES and ERP needs in one platform? The DELMIAWorks Manufacturing ERP solution from Dassault Systèmes is one of the few with MES embedded in its platform and is globally available. In fact, IQMS developed the MES first, before adding ERP and supply chain functionality and before…
My First Briefing with an Agentic AI System – A Chat with INDUSTRY 5
You Interviewed Who!? Or What!? First let’s talk about why this interview happened. There’s no question that AI has captured peoples’ imagination and dominated the IT conversation over the last couple of years. Our research shows that the vast majority of companies, 88%, believe there is business value available from AI/ML.(1) Of those, almost one-half…




