Smart Factories Aren't Smart Yet
An honest look at why many connected plants still lack context, cross-system coordination, and decision loops despite heavy investment in dashboards…
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The Evolution of Industrial Automation: From PLCs to Autonomous Factories and AI-Driven Architectures
Automation history on a real plant floor is sediment, not a staircase: every generation since 1968 is still running somewhere. This guide maps how deterministic control, SCADA, IoT and AI actually layer in brownfield sites, why the un-retired layer decides what AI can see, and the architecture and decision framework for moving from visibility to bounded autonomous action.
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