Long before Industry 4.0 or any thoughts of storing manufacturing data off-site—let alone in a cloud environment managed by another company—data historians have been a fixture in manufacturing ...

Data has become a critical part of almost every industry. Data drives innovation, provides traceability, and even assists in troubleshooting. As a company grows, so does its data, which is why ...

While historians have long argued among themselves about the nature of their craft, growing doubts beyond the academy about the importance or even the necessity of what they do have left the ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Industrial organizations collect mountains of data on everything from asset performance to ...