Supervision insights: The blog

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…

Ask a CEO whether their company has a crisis management team, and you’ll almost always get the same answer: yes. There’s a document somewhere, a list of names, maybe a…

An operator wincing after three hours on shift, a poorly placed screen that forces a twisted neck, a cable that’s been trailing under the desk for six months because nobody…

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…

Spend even a day in Guinea and you can feel it: the country is reinventing itself. Cranes dot the skyline, foreign delegations arrive one after another, and inside government ministries,…

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…