Body, Paint and Final on One Edge Stack
What to connect in body, paint, and final assembly, how to move it without opening the plant network, and how to run torque and weld models on the same node as SCADA.
19 minute read PDF
White papers
Field guides for the industrial edge
One paper for each use case on this site. Each starts with a self-check for your plant, shows what to connect and how to keep the plant network closed while you do it, names where these projects go wrong, and ends with what to do Monday. Every number is sourced.
Industries
One paper for every use case on the solutions page
What to connect, how to move the data without opening the plant network, where these projects go wrong, and a phased plan to start Monday.
Discrete manufacturing
One Line, One Console: Consolidating Packaging HMIs
A path from PC sprawl to one console: inventory the line, read PackML state into a common model, move HMIs one at a time, and replace per-skid modems with one logged path.
22 minute read PDF
SMT Line Monitoring at the Edge
For SMT process and test engineers: joining machine data by board and time, cutting AOI false calls, catching paste defects at the printer, and protecting customer program IP.
22 minute read PDF
Process manufacturing
Batch Records That Write Themselves
How to read CIP skids, fermenters, and fillers without changing their programs, and build the CIP, batch, and lot genealogy records QA signs and FDA asks for.
21 minute read PDF
Watching the Safety Layer Without Touching It
For chemical plants and blenders: a read-only layer that watches gas detectors and the SIS, keeps OSHA-ready test records, scores alarm load, and works at sites with no network.
23 minute read PDF
Cleanroom Monitoring You Can Defend
How sterile manufacturers connect particle counters, pressure, and BMS data on one clock, alarm at the edge, and map Part 11 and Annex 11 controls onto the design.
23 minute read PDF
Energy and utilities
Running Remote Solar and Wind Sites Through the Gaps
SCADA for remote solar and wind sites: store-and-forward at the edge, separating comms gaps from real outages, brokered OEM access, and CIP-003-9 in practice.
21 minute read PDF
Substation Monitoring at the Edge
For utilities: what substation condition data is worth collecting, an edge architecture that never touches protection, a station-by-station rollout, and how NERC CIP applies.
21 minute read PDF
Wellsite Automation Without Open Ports
For production and SCADA teams: closing exposed pad devices, keeping API 21.1 records through outages, routing pumpers by exception, OOOOb evidence, and patching without a truck roll.
23 minute read PDF
Water and wastewater
Every Plant on One Screen, No Plant on the Internet
A practical plan for utilities: close internet exposure first, put an edge node at each site, route lift station alarms with a record, and build compliance reports from the historian.
24 minute read PDF
Finding the Water You Already Paid For
A staged program for distribution and NRW teams: fix the AWWA audit, tighten one DMA, watch night flow, measure and manage pressure, and capture the transients ordinary loggers miss.
22 minute read PDF
Building materials and heavy industry
Kiln Optimization at the Edge
How cement plants fix analyzer, feeder, and lab timing data first, then run soft sensors and an advisory optimizer on an edge node beside the DCS, with the operator in charge.
21 minute read PDF
Rolling Line Monitoring Across the Stands
Build one millisecond record of every stand with the equipment the mill already owns, use it for cobble and gauge reviews, and fence level 1 off from the office with zones and conduits.
22 minute read PDF
Agriculture and motorsport
Sensors That Survive the Season
For growers and irrigation crews: what to measure at the pump first, which radio fits which job, a private network on towers and field nodes, and the Plow Horse farm twin.
23 minute read PDF
Race Telemetry and Operations Tracking for Private Teams
What to measure on a club car, how to move data from car to garage over sub-GHz Wi-Fi with store and forward, and how to keep it private in a shared paddock.
23 minute read PDF
AI at the edge
Running models next to the line
Vision, robotics, scheduling, and maintenance: what each one needs from the edge, and how to put it into production safely.
AI at the edge
Vision Inspection at the Edge
Vision inspection on the line: choosing rules or deep learning, lighting and labels, the PLC reject handshake, measuring the station like a gauge, and handling drift.
21 minute read PDF
Robots That Take Instructions
Where VLA models fit beside the robot controller, what the latency budget allows, how to collect your own demonstrations, and how to test a cell before trusting an autonomy claim.
24 minute read PDF
Scheduling at the Edge
Why ERP plans go stale by mid-morning, what a finite schedule needs from the floor, and how to reschedule on machine, material, and order events without making the floor nervous.
21 minute read PDF
The Maintenance Assistant That Knows Your Plant
A floor-level AI assistant for maintenance techs: cleaning work orders and manuals, cite-or-refuse retrieval, LOTO limits, and a phased rollout that runs on site.
22 minute read PDF
Pricing
Comparing edge platform quotes
A method for pricing the same outcome on every quote, with every input labeled by where it comes from.
Pricing
Edge Platform Pricing, Same Outcome
A line-by-line price comparison of EmberNet, ZEDEDA, and Litmus at the same redundant, segmented outcome, with every input labeled by source and a five-step method for checking any quote.
23 minute read PDF
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