Remaining Useful Life Without Run-to-Failure Data
You don't need a graveyard of failed bearings to forecast a repair, and the number on the dashboard was never the point.
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Field Notes
Field notes on industrial operations intelligence — sensors, edge telemetry, and machine learning for processing plants.
AI on Both Sides of the OT Firewall
Brussels just put AI on both sides of the plant firewall. Read from the control room, the EU's new Cyber-AI Action Plan is part threat model, part toolkit.
What to Measure Before You Electrify the Boiler
A heat pump's economics live or die on two signals the boiler house has never logged: the temperature each duty truly needs, and the shape of the load across the day.
The Model That Goes Quiet: MLOps on the Plant Floor
Deployment is day one for an industrial model, not the finish line: how drift, retraining, and ownership decide whether it survives its second year.
Scoring Your CRA Readiness From the Plant Floor
ENISA just shipped a five-domain maturity model for the Cyber Resilience Act, and read against a real processing line it works less like a scorecard than a gap list.
The AI Act Slipped. The Machinery Deadline Didn't.
The digital omnibus pushed high-risk AI obligations out to December 2027, but the machinery regulation still lands in January 2027, and that gap is where the work sits.
What Model Predictive Control Actually Buys a Plant
Five claims plant teams hear about MPC, from vendors and skeptics alike, checked against the control-engineering record.
IED 2.0: The Meters You Need Before July 2027
The revised Industrial Emissions Directive asks large plants to prove their water, energy and materials performance, and the number it wants is a ratio most sites can't yet defend.
The Cyber Resilience Act's 24-Hour Clock at the Edge
From 11 September 2026, the maker of every connected industrial device owes Europe an early warning within 24 hours of an exploited flaw - and the plant is usually where that flaw is seen first.
How to Measure ROI on Industrial AI
A plant-floor method for baselining, attributing, and pricing industrial AI value before the dashboards outrun the returns.
From Anomaly to Root Cause in Continuous Plants
An anomaly score tells you something changed. Getting to what changed first is a separate, harder problem in correlation, direction, and disciplined alarms.
Running LLMs at the Edge Inside the Plant
A field note on putting a language model in the rack: the hardware, the memory-bandwidth wall, the heat, and why the box never closes a control loop.