What are many manufacturers missing to succeed in digital transformation, smart manufacturing, and successful artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives? A common foundation for reliably getting the right data and information to the right place at the right time. In short, what’s often missing is enterprise-grade industrial connectivity. Normalizing, organizing, and making available the massive amounts of…
IT/OT
Fuuz Doubles Down on Enterprise for Industrial DataOps and Level 3 Apps
How far can large enterprises go in consolidating their software stack from IIoT and data foundations to apps? Could a startup EV OEM run its business on just two pieces of software? Fuuz, by MFGx, aims to answer that second question with a yes, using just Fuuz and Oracle NetSuite. We recently had an update…
GE Vernova’s Proficy Suite Gains Data Hub and Scheduler
How can a comprehensive manufacturing software suite that works across batch, hybrid, and complex discrete industries hosted on cloud, edge, or on-prem deliver more value? GE Vernova’s answer is to improve central data management, embed more AI, and enable customers to unlock capacity through detailed scheduling. The GE Vernova’s Proficy® Software & Services Suite update…
New Thinking from MLC Rethink 2024
Tech-Clarity’s Julie Fraser was on the analyst panel of the Manufacturing Leadership Council’s (MLC’s) 20th anniversary Rethink conference. The panel looked back 20 years and forward 20 years in the journey to digital manufacturing. Julie’s perspective is that some things that seem new are not – like AI, which she wrote a report about in…
GE Proficy 2024: Expanding on IT, OT, Sustainability, and Operations Scale and Ease
Making plant floor software more straightforward to use, rollout, maintain, and sustain is a worthy endeavor. The fourth annual release of the GE Digital Proficy portfolio as an integrated release was packed! Updates range from expanding industry fit to architecture for enterprise rollout, cloud everywhere, composability, consistency for connected workers, sustainability functionality, and pre-built analytics…




