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.
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Field Notes
Field notes on industrial operations intelligence — sensors, edge telemetry, and machine learning for processing plants.
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.
ISO/IEC 42001: An AI Management System for Industry
The first international standard for managing AI is a management system, not a model test — and for a plant that distinction is the whole point.
Optimizing Aeration in Water and Wastewater Plants
How a sensor-to-model control loop trims the biggest power load in an activated-sludge plant without risking the permit.
Copilots in the Control Room: What the Demo Skips
An AI copilot is a useful reference librarian for operators, not an engineer — here's where it earns its keep and where it has to be fenced out.
OPC UA FX at the Field Level: Past the Gateway
What the OPC Foundation's Field eXchange profile actually standardizes between controllers, the TSN and Ethernet-APL wires underneath, and where it isn't ready yet.
Thermal Imaging for Predictive Maintenance
How infrared inspection turns invisible heat into lead time before a connection fails.
From Historian to Lakehouse: The OT Data Pipeline
How years of plant tag history move out of the historian into an open, queryable lakehouse, walked layer by layer from sensor to served model.
Vibration Analysis Meets Machine Learning, End to End
How a bolt on a bearing housing becomes a named fault, a severity grade, and a replace-by date, and where the pipeline quietly breaks.
Turning Plant Data Into a Product Carbon Footprint
How to turn historian energy and throughput data into a supplier-specific Scope 3 footprint an auditor will accept.
Catching Scrap Early in Battery Gigafactories
Why cell plants still scrap 15-30% of early output, and how inline measurement and cell genealogy move defect detection from the gate back to the coater.