Size historian retention with a measured data budget
Estimate the data path, separate sampling from storage and validate compression before choosing capacity.
Data & analytics / EN
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19 articles · Data & analytics
Data & analytics / EN
Write a data contract your automation and IT teams can both use
Define meaning, timing, quality and ownership so an industrial tag remains understandable outside its source system.
Data & analytics / EN
Check sensor data quality before building analytics
Use simple checks for completeness, range, timing and context before trusting a trend or training a model.
wireless / EN
Wireless Sensor Networks in Harsh Industrial Environments
Heat, metal, vibration, and interference make factory wireless hard. How to design wireless sensor networks that survive real plants.
historians / EN
Historian vs Data Lake: Where Should Industrial Data Actually Live?
Historians are optimized for fast time-series; data lakes for flexible analytics. The two are complementary - if you design the boundary.
data-quality / EN
Data Quality in Manufacturing: Why Garbage Time-Series Breaks Analytics
The analytics model is only as good as the data pipeline that feeds it. The most common data quality failures and how to catch them early.
edge / EN
Edge vs Cloud for Industrial Data: A Decision Framework, Not a Religion
Cloud is not always the answer, and edge is not automatically safer. A practical framework for where processing should live.
time-series / EN
How Time-Series Database Compression Keeps Historians Fast
Historians store billions of samples without exploding in size. Understanding lossless and lossy compression helps you size and tune them.
plc / EN
PLC Program Backup Best Practices: Protecting the Code That Runs Your Plant
The only copy of a machine's logic should never live on a single laptop. A practical backup strategy for PLC programs of any age.
mqtt / EN
MQTT Sparkplug B: The Payload Standard That Makes IIoT Data Usable
Raw MQTT topics are easy to publish and hard to govern. Sparkplug B adds structure, birth certificates, and last-gasp messages.
industrial-it / EN
Industrial Data Historians: Choosing Between OSIsoft PI, Ignition, and InfluxDB
Every factory needs a historian — but the choice between enterprise platforms, SCADA-native solutions, and open-source time-series databases depends on your scale, budget, and team skills.
industrial-it / EN
Industrial Monitoring Dashboards with Grafana: From Sensor to Screen
Grafana is not just for DevOps anymore. When paired with the right time-series database and industrial data connectors, it becomes the most flexible and cost-effective monitoring platform for manufacturing environments.
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