Category: Monitoring

In most post-mortems, the alert was there. It had fired, it had a timestamp, it was sitting in a queue. Nobody read it. That is the real issue with SOC…

A control room running five or six different monitoring tools always ends up with the same symptom: alert storms. A UPS switches to battery, a network link saturates, three PLCs…

Anyone who has spent time in a control room quickly realizes that shift operators are not short on skill. They understand their processes, often better than the process engineers who…

There is a certain irony in the situation facing industrial companies today. On the one hand, sensors, PLCs, and connected equipment generate unprecedented volumes of data. On the other, research…

Industrial data visualization is the art of making the unreadable readable. Thousands of variables changing every second, sensors spread across kilometers of piping, and dozens of interconnected machines, all condensed…