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Global Manufacturing IT Association and Research Firm Tech-Clarity Focus on How Manufacturers Gain Value from MES in the Age of AI Phoenix, AZ, and Media, PA, USA, February 27, 2026 – The Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association International (MESA) is working with Tech-Clarity, Inc. on a research program, The Business Value and Evolution of Manufacturing Operations…
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…
What makes a digital thread that weaves through manufacturing possible? The answer is: operational data management, which includes a host of capabilities to connect, collect, contextualize, and make data flow across offices, plants, and the field. ThingWorx, a PTC Technology, has been doing that for years, and we recently had an update briefing on version…
Can ISA95 rescue large manufacturers’ digital transformation efforts? Early evidence suggests that it can, when deployed as a knowledge graph, exposed as the schema of a standard data model. The ISA95 standard is the basis for the ontological structure of Rhize Manufacturing Data Hub. This headless, event-driven, real-time system provides a clean, single source of…
Jim Brown’s recently published eBook research, The Business Value of An Industrial System of Engagement Platform, introduced the concept of the Industrial System of Engagement (SOE). Following the eBook, he penned a guest post for Hexagon summarizing the eBook and how the Industrial SOE provides a platform to extend the value of current enterprise systems…
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