Sam Smith of Stellar One Consulting invited me to talk about my background and why I started Industrial Insight. I appreciate his...

The hype train would have you believe that ML and AI are a "silver bullet" to solve all (or most) of your manufacturing problems. I say...

The hype train would have you believe that ML and AI are a "silver bullet" to solve all (or most) of your manufacturing problems. I say...

The hype train would have you believe that ML and AI are a "silver bullet" to solve all (or most) of your manufacturing problems. I say...

**** This is originally posted on Martin Davis's Industry 4.0 blog. I suggest you give him a follow. The original post where you can see...

I had a blast presenting at PI World 2019 with Rich Ermlick. Here is the presentation: #BusinessIntelligence #OperationalIntelligence...

In this video, we take sampled data from PI Datalink and slice it with Tableau and Power BI. We also discuss the concept of combining...

We were asked what tools we use for extracting data out of the PI System. This is part 1 - the decision making process on the right data...

Buck Bard is a former colleague of mine at OSIsoft. Buck focuses on leading companies through digital transformation workshops, and is...

In these two videos, I show how PI AF and PI Event Frames can help with multi-variate data models and I also talk in more detail about...

In these videos, I talk about how PI's Asset Framework and Event Frames help with advanced analytics and machine learning efforts. I also...

Sometimes, it is the often, simple analytics that can help us a ton. In this video, I show an example. You can see it here If you can get...

So, I saw this tweet below recently and read the article. I got pretty fired up over this article too, not because of what Michael...

I am featured as the "Monthly PI Geek" on OSIsoft's user forum called "PI Square." For some reason, this strikes me as comical, as there...

On April 25th, 2018, I had the pleasure of co-presenting with Rick Smith of International Paper. It was a great experience and an honor...

I have been thinking a lot about this topic and have even written about it before, but I am not sure I have stressed what I believe...

So, you are looking to add time-series data from one of your facilities to your data lake to start doing "Big Data Analytics" on the...

I have written extensively on what it takes to be successful in the digital transformation/IIoT space, but one topic that I really...

I am sorry I am a week late in writing this, but I had a little distraction in a wind and rain storm called Irma. She decided to knock...

A recent conversation with John Murphy, the former chief mechanical officer at CSX Railroad has actually made me significantly re-think...